We drag back into Santiago after a glorious day, take showers, and headed over to Cristian´s (Andres´cousin) place to cook with Lindsey for him and Andres. It was our sort of thank you to these guys for letting us stay, but they ended up doing a lot of the food! Lindsey made an awesome palmito, cucumber, tomato, basil salad, and a tomato-mozzarella-basil salad. We bought the meat, but the guys grilled. I followed Crisitian´s instructions (who is really working on his English, as I am my Spanish) to make a ¨typical¨ chilean salad. Sliced Potatoes, carrots, peas - and MAYONESA - lots of it! Chileans love their mayonnaise, as evidenced by the picture from the local grocery store. It also does not come in glass jars, but plastic squish bags (like capri-sun) and it squirts out like decorative cake icing!
It was a fun evening - more of their friends kept showing up for the bbq, which was nice to meet other of their friends. Another way that this feels less like vacation, and more like living here - going to dinner parties and hanging out with santaguinos.
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