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  • Eating an entire cow (not in one sitting) part 3

    After three weeks in Buenos Aires I’m finally getting slightly tired of Argentinian food. Not dulce de leche, I could never tire of that. but steaks in general.

    The beauty of  beef is Buenos Aires is, the butcher will take a “bife de lomo” steak and grind it into ground beef for you. And, he won’t even mind when you panic, forget every word in Spanish and just grunt and point at his case filled with meats.  And, when he finally picks the one you want and you have no clue what the word for “to grind” is, he looks around his shop until he spots the grinder and suggests he uses it.  And, when he asks you if you want it put through the grinder once or twice and you just stare blankly because not only do you not know all these words, but even if you did, you didn’t know you could have it ground twice, he just does it once for you once and wraps it up with a smile.Another amazing thing about Buenos Aires is you can get Mexican taco makings at the store.

    Tacos made with an Argentinian tenderloin steak are so good it’s almost like cheating. It’s tempting to eat the rest of the cow ground up in a taco, especially since you can eat brains and tongue in a taco in Mexico. But, after this taco (which was amazing) I am going back to the Argentinian parilla for the rest of the cow.

  • Tango at the cemetery

    One of the biggest things to see in Buenos Aires is the Recoleta cematery.    But, we are Recoleta cemetery challenged.  The first try we took the wrong bus and ended up at a polo stadium. On the second try we walked. By the time we got there we had heat stroke, and the cemetery was long closed for the day.

    So instead we decided to go to a different cemetery,  Cemetario de la Chacarita.   Not only is it the biggest cemetery in South America,  the world famous tango singer Carlos Gardel is buried here.

    And, you can get there by subway.

    It was his birthday, (He lived from 1890 – 1935 when he died in a plane crash.)  so it seemed fitting to visit his tomb.   It sounds strange to visit a cemetery, but his gravesite was anything but somber.

    The cemetery is enormous. Each tomb is like a little house, rows and rows of them, it was like a small city with streets and blocks of granite and marble tombs.

    Here’s a video of our entire trip soup to nuts.

  • Eating an entire cow (not in one sitting) part 2

    I’m a little behind on my cow eating entries.    I had my second steak experience on Jeff’s birthday which was almost a week ago.    We went to a restaurant called  La Cabrera.  This is like the Uno’s of Buenos Aires.  It’s extremely popular and extremely good.   It’s mostly tourists  but locals go too because it’s that good.

    We got there way too early for dinner – 9:30. But even then there was a wait. A hostess took our names (in English) typed them into the computer and told us to come back in 45 minutes.

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  • Dogs from our balcony

    Jeff and I see these dogs to our right every morning as we sit on our balcony drinking coffee.

    These dogs are waiting while their dog walker picks  up another dog.


    If we look to the left we see these dogs waiting for their dog walker.

    And in case you’re wondering, here is how it works when one has to go to the bathroom.  All the rest wait while one goes in the street.

    The white dog gets in trouble every day for being on the wall. Then if the 2nd beagle is in tow (sometimes he stays home) all hell breaks loose.

    The white dog always looks like he wants to be with the other group.

    But then he seems to get over it when his walker arrives.


    (apologies for the music on this video.  I was bad mouthing the dog walker, so I needed to cover that up.)

    And that’s only on our side of the street. Here’s what’s going on across the street.

  • Eating an entire cow – part 1 (the video)

    Here’s a video of our “first” cow eating experience.    You can tell by the end of the night I had had more wine than beef.