A family lunch...

Yesterday, the whole house [or those that were here for the weekend] worked together to make a delicious lunch of empanadas. Sigrid and I took on the vegetarian ones (as always), as well as dessert (chocolate and strawberry empanadas and cookies), while Angelica and Camila did the other empanadas, and the boys helped with various tasks around the kitchen. It probably sounds sappy, but it was really fun to have everybody working together and eating together.


(Camila, Giorgio, Sigrid, Angelica, and Nacho not ready for the picture because they were enjoying the food too much!)


(Angelica and Camila's fried empanadas... filling included crab and cheese, pino [ground beef and onion], and napoletana [oregano, cheese, tomatoes, and ham]...recipe)


(Sigrid's and my chocolate empanadas... not typical but a new favorite...recipe)


(We also had some healthy salads!)


(And my personal favorite, the chocolate chip cookies that I made with one hand! Even a day after baking them, they were still chewy and moist and butter/margarine free!! Recipe)

We also talked about having a big holiday dinner before everyone leaves for the holidays (around the 20th of December) and even doing Secret Santa in the house, which just added on to me thinking about my two months left and how much I am going to miss Chile - but that's a whole other post in itself.