Learning to cook Empenadas - day 34

I had organised a transfer to Cooking with Teresita's as she is quite far out of town and I couldn't be bothered fannying around with trains and buses early in the morning.

Once we arrived and met Teresita's lovely dog and her puppy both Vislas - beautiful dogs - we headed into the kitchen to get started.  It was only about 10 minutes before Teresita asked if we wanted to taste some wine - so it was about 11.15am!  I looked at my watch and then Mark and we both said "yes why not, its after 2pm at home"!

We were poured lovely cold glasses of Argentinian White wine - really lovely after our hot long journey in but it wasn't even 12pm yet!!!

Teresita was a brilliant teacher and soon had both of us chopping, kneading and stirring...

Here is Mark actually looking very interested in whatever Teresita is saying - he never looks that interested when I talk to him....

Mark is working on filling his last Empenada while Teresita and her husband inspect mine!!!  Think we are on our 2nd bottle of white wine by this point....

We made 24 Empenadas, 6 of them meat, 8 were Aubergine and the rest corn.  Half of them were cooked in the oven and the other half were deep fried.  Oh yeah the deep fried corn ones were AMAZING!  the Aubergine ones were ok too, lots of flavours from the cumin and chilli that Teresita added so very nice.  The oven ones really couldn't top the deep fried ones - why is it that the most unhealthy food is always the BEST!!!

Once all the Empenadas were ready we sat out in the garden and got tucked in and Teresita opened a bottle of Malbec - god help us - 2pm and 3 bottles in!!!!

Teresita has a really beautiful garden with Hummingbirds flying around - she feeds them nectar which keeps them coming all year round.  They are amazing little birds with very high energy levels and with it high vibrational energy - way way above our heads - its like they come from another dimension as their energy is so vibrant.  Such cute wee birds - I really loved sitting outside watching them.

Here I am enjoying my corn empenada and argentinian white wine.  Brilliant fun making them and Teresita and her husband were perfect hosts.

After we had eaten we then sat and talked to Teresita and her husband for a while - she is an retired high school teacher and her husband is a retired doctor and she started doing this just because they love cooking and she enjoys teaching so why not.  We had a fab day and promise to invite you all around sometime for some delicious Empenadas!

It was nice to take it easy with the cooking after our horse riding experience the day before as our bodies are starting to get sore but as always its 48 hours after the event that you can't move - don't think Mark believes me but he will have to roll out of bed tomorrow because his legs won't work!!!

Teresita directed us to the train station where it cost us 3 pesos each to get back into town - saved us a $30 taxi journey so big thanks to Teresita for being the perfect host, a great cook and teacher and also for saving us money.

If you want to know more about Teresita look her up on her website www.try2cook.com

Mark is off on a footie stadium tour to River Plate while I have my polo lesson tomorrow afternoon so more info to follow.....

suzxxx