Argentina

Las empanadas are really, really good. I love them. And basically for me, I just loved all the fresh bread. They had bread with every meal and it was always like recently baked. They buy bread every day. A lot of carbs. Carbs in Argentina, which for me, I liked. And they also have milanesa a la napolitana, which is like country fried steak or chicken with mozzarella cheese and ham and tomatoes on top with like basil and parsley and stuff. It's really, really good. Very Italian influenced, but sometimes you can get some milanesas that are like humongous, like giant, the size of a whole plate and they're to die for. They're so good.

Favorite foods were milanesa, the empanadas were pretty good, ravioli was really good. They have like a European influence there so their pasta was pretty good. Like people made gnocchi for us that was really good. The barbecue there's not any spicy food like I was expecting for South America. It's pretty mellow and mild. So if you love spicy food bring your own hot sauce or taco seasoning. You put it on anything, it'll be good.

You have to get dulce pan. It is this sugared bread and it is terrible for you, but they sell facturas, which is like, it's like a candied treat everywhere in the streets. And they're, they're everywhere. There's like chocolate-covered churros, churros filled with dulce de leche, which is caramelized milk, also delicious and comes from Argentina. And the bread is immaculate. I gained so much weight on my mission from eating just bread. It was delicious. But you cannot go wrong with most foods there. You just kind of got to tough it out and get your stomach used to it really fast in the beginning. But I will say my favorite pleasure food, if I wanted something really greasy, it's something called churripan. It's like this type of bratwurst, Italian sausage mix with kind of spices and vinegar over the top. And then he puts something, pico de macho, which is tomatoes, onions, and olive oil mixed over the top. It's delicious.

Definitely some of my favorite food would be gnocchi, which is just an Argentine thing, but especially in the Patagonia there's a lot of sheep, cordero, so lamb actually I guess I should say more accurately, and because there are so many sheep and lamb in the Patagonia you can get it really fresh and it's amazing whenever they cook it over the fire in asado, and so that's one thing that I miss.

My favorite food in Argentina is the empanada. It's pretty good. It's just like a pizza, but fried. And you eat like five at a time, so it's pretty good.

There are so many good foods in Argentina. I'm going to try to list them off. Gnocchi, potato pasta with this delicious tuco sauce that has carrots, oils, pepper, oil, pepper. It's so tasty. Empanadas, which is these like meat-filled calzones. Those are so good of all sorts of variety. They can be fried or baked. Homemade bread all the time. The bakeries, panaderias are amazing there. Milanesa, which are these breaded steaks. Alfajores, chocolate-covered cookie sandwiches. You've got tarta de verduras, which is like an egg, cheese, veggie omelette, or not omelette, sorry, quiche. You've got pan de choclo, which I think is like cornmeal with this meat sauce. It's like really creamy. It's kind of like what mashed potatoes taste like. Asado, barbecue, torta frita, fry bread, locro stew, this fruit juice with chunks of fruit. It's so good. I love and miss Argentine food.

All-time favorite food, churipan. Chorizo, sausage with bread, salsa criolla, chimichurri. Goodness gracious, it is divine, like celestial. After that, empanadas. I personally like al horno, so like oven-baked instead of fried. All empanadas are so good, you can even make your own. The pizza there is glorious. I loved their, I think it's called fugaceta, which is like onion pizza. Fugaceta, something like that. So good, so much better than United States pizza. And I mean, obviously their meat's good. I was there during like an economic depression or something, so everyone had chicken, didn't get too much meat. But when I did have meat, it was really good and very flavorful.

My favorite food I think was this thing called milanesa or empanadas. If you haven't heard what those are go look them up because they're going to be your favorite things ever. Basically a milanesa is like a country fried steak somewhat made out of chicken. It's hard to explain but it's great. And an empanada is kind of like a, oh I don't even know how to explain it, the best thing ever. Look it up. One thing that they eat down there like crazy that was really weird for me but I ended up loving it is mayonnaise. They put that on everything. On their food, on their bread, on everything. And to me it tastes a lot better down there. So it might sound weird to you and it will be at first but you'll get used to it and you'll love it.

Starting off with kind of my least favorite but still really good are gnocchis and they're like potato noodles in this spaghetti sauce or they'll have it with a ton of different things but it is so good. Second favorite food of all time asado. Asado is, you'll hear this from any Argentine missionary, it's the Argentine barbecue and it's super simple. They have really good meat, all they do is throw lemon and salt and it is so good. And then the next thing is empanadas. Now you've got to know your empanadas. There's three types, empanadas de horno, empanadas fritas, and empanadas de horno de barro. Empanadas de horno de barro, they're the best and if they are of chicken or meat, even better. Anyways, those are some of the best foods in Argentina. Make sure that you eat the empanadas and then also the desserts like facturas and some of the fruit down there, incredible.

Empanadas are definitely my go-to. Chicken empanada is a really good pulled chicken. Not all of them are amazing. You'll have to understand that everybody makes a little difference. Like when people say they make homemade pizza here at home, sometimes it's not great. But empanadas usually are a good go-to because it's pretty easy. It's just dough and then some sort of filling. But chicken's always pretty good and ham and cheese, golden. You'll find a lot of fast food places like you'll find pizza. Imagine like a Little Caesars but for empanadas. That was my favorite.

My favorite food is arroz chaufa. It's actually just fried rice. It's the most delicious fried rice you'll ever have. It's pretty standard, they just know how to make it. If you ever get the chance to talk to a Peruvian lady, or the immigrants seem to know how to make it so much better than the native Argentines do. It's the best. I've been looking for a decent arroz chaufa recipe since I got back. One other thing, empanadas. Empanadas are amazing, especially if you get the ones that have like little bits of onion and raisins and just like little bits of ground beef and egg and it's hard-boiled egg. It's so good, I love it. Empanadas is something you can take home. Get a good empanada recipe when you're out there and then bring it home. And if you can impress someone by cooking it, that works too.

There's empanadas, which are basically meat and cheese stuffed inside of flour and then fried or baked. They do those very well there. I've been here, I had them before my mission here in the United States. It's not the same thing. It's completely different. They're way better. They have good ice cream.

Favorite foods, how do you choose in Argentina? Because it's literally the most amazing thing in the world. We have milanesas that are like really thin like chicken strips that you can put like mozzarella cheese and sauce and ham on it and it's just so beautiful, right? And there's empanadas where you can fill them with like chicken or beef or just incredible, so beautiful. And let's not even talk about like potato stuff, they'll do like pastel de papa which is like mashed potatoes with like meat and like other like yummy things in the middle and they'll bake that and then asado, like you can't get better meat than in Argentina. So yeah, that's just a few of the beautiful things that you experience in Argentina.

My favorite food was chori ban. It's kind of like a really upscale hot dog, which doesn't sound really good, but actually it's super yummy, really flavorful, and then they put this sauce on top called chimichurri, and it's just so yummy and flavorful. Dessert-wise, I had two favorite foods. The first one is this ice cream place called Grito. In Grito, it's just kind of like really cheap, but really yummy ice cream flavors, and they're good. Second one are facturas. Facturas are like this dessert that's a pastry, and they just have like bread pastry shops pretty much like every corner, and so they're just always smelling so yummy, and they're really delicious, and also really cheap, so you can kind of buy a lot and also get really full on them, so it's good.

I love the empanadas, especially the empanadas dulces. They're just a sweet meat. I don't really know how they do it, but it's really good. And then milanesas, it's basically a giant chicken nugget, and it's really good. So, look forward to that.

One of my favorite foods from Argentina is called guiso. It's like a stew, they make it with rice or they make it with pasta and it was really good. And they also had really good bread, so good. They also drink a lot of mate, which was kind of interesting and it kind of goes along with the culture. It's like an herb they put in these funky looking cups and they drink it with these funny straws and they drink it every day, multiple times. They drink it in the heat, they drink it in the cold, every day.

One of my favorite foods from Argentina is by far asado, which is kind of like an Argentinian barbecue kind of, but they use like a special salt to put on it and they also, they have like a special technique to use for it and it's pretty much like beef, they could have like chicken also and I've seen fish and pork, it's not very common but I've seen all that and it is so good. Another thing that I'm obsessed with is alfajores, which is a kind of like a cakey cookie type of thing with dulce de leche, which is like caramel in the middle and I literally could eat those like every day. And I also, the fruit is very good, I've eaten some like super good fruit.

You will eat a lot of spaghetti, so I'm just going to warn you that now, but you will also eat things like empanadas, and empanadas are like croissants, I guess, maybe one way to call them, with different things on the inside. So they have different flavors, like a ham and cheese one, they have one that's like beef and eggs, they have ones that have, that are like, I don't know, you'd maybe think like pizza on the inside, they have others that have corn on the inside, they have all sorts of kinds of empanadas, and then they also have something called facturas. Facturas are, they're something that you would get at like a bakery, and they have like honey, and they're sweet, or jelly, and they have all sorts of different kinds, so those are really good, but the food in Argentina is amazing.

There's meat empanadas, there's chicken empanadas, there's also ham and cheese empanadas, and they're all really good, but my favorite are the meat empanadas.

Argentina is definitely known for their beef and their asado or their Argentine barbecue and steak, but honestly my favorite food from Argentina was definitely the milanesa de pollo. So it's like a giant chicken strip that was fried. It was super good. They normally eat it with like mashed potatoes.

Alfajores, which are like these sandwiches sent from heaven. They have dulce de leche inside. Oh my gosh, those are amazing. And the asado down there, the meat is spot on. And if you like pasta, you're going to have a good time, but you might get sick of it because you eat a lot of pasta. But I would say alfajores, asado and a pasta dish called gnocchis were my favorites, like little round potato pasta pieces. That's really good. Homemade ravioli was also one of my favorites.