We have aquired some new names from folks who dont understand us when we tell them our name. Adam and Tracy are not the most common names in Latin America, so we just enjoy the new identity and deal with it.
We finished up a little less than 2 weeks on our latest farm. We were working with an Austrian family living in Argentina. We got to enjoy fresh, unpasteurized milk from the milk cow every day, fresh homemade cheese, and homemade champagne like drink made from a flower called ´sauco´ (ok, researchers, help us figure out what this p`lant was, because this sprite like drink was delicious), homemade bread, oatmeal, canned cherries and apple juice from last years harvest and lots more. We also milked one of the sheep for cheese. We spent most of our time moving lumber and firewood for about 10 and 11 hours a day and just became exhausted from it.
We came to the internet today to figure out the best (and by best I mean most interesting/exciting/not too expensive/somewhat convenient) way to cross over into Chile. We will be starting on the Chiloe islands and moving northward, hoping to cross into Bolivia eventually, assuming we are able to aquire a visa to do so.
Good news is, we were able to find a small sweet potato pie from a local ´panaderia´, so we celebrated our own thanksgiving a day early.
We will try to post some more pictures soon as we know it has been a while.
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This was taken and google-translated from: http://www.inta.gov.ar/esquel/info/documentos/miscelaneas/sauco_g14.htm - Written by somebody from UNC... go figure.
Champagne de Saúco - Champagne of Elder
With the beautiful and fragrant flowers of the elder can prepare this fine beverage
Ingredients
12 plumes of flowers
½ kilo of sugar
2 tablespoons wine vinegar or apple
1 lemon grated and sliced
4 and ½ liters of water
Preparation
Place the flowers (no stems) in a saucepan, preferably stainless steel or enameled. Add sugar, vinegar, lemon and water. Mix all stirring and allow to stand in the covered casserole for 24 hours. Percolate content throwing flowers and packing of the liquid in bottles clean and well-covered (if possible plastic). You can start drinking at 15 or 20 days. Care to uncover because it has a lot of gas. Drink it cold!
This recipe was taken from: "Edible Wild Plants of the Patagonian Andes."
Part I. Exóticas, de E. Alien, E. Rapoport, l. Rapoport, l. Margutti y E. Margutti and E. Sanz. UNC. Sanz. UNC.
(Cuzzin Joe)
Here's the link on Wikipedia for the Sauco plant:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sambucus_peruviana
I'm a little confused as to what happened when. Did you leave the place in the valley of the snow capped mountains and spend two weeks with some Austrians who made you move lumber or was that all the same farm?
It is good to read something about you. I've been wondering.
Sadly, we watched the Appstate game on one TV and the NCSU/Davidson b'ball game on another and both of our teams lost. Didn't make for the best of Saturdays.
ah, yes we left the place in the valley, but that was planned to be over on that date. The lumber moving came at the next farm.
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