Thursday, September 23, 2010

Hailstorm & Flood

In the centre of the city of Bogota (Colombia) something really weird happened.

Colombia doesn’t have seasons and it never snows. It has a lot of months of rain but without snow and if the storm is really strong it could be have some hailstorm.


In November in 2007 Bogotá had a really big storm, and one of the main streets in the centre of the city collapsed and the drains and sewers were damaged.

So instead of the street it became a river and instead of fish it had cars.


Granizada

This event is one of the biggest ones that has ever happened in Bogota.   




You can check this video which shows what happened and this video was so amazing that one of the biggest companies of cars took it to make a comercial.

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Arepas



Arepa is a Colombian recipe which is really hard to get in Europe or Asia because the recepie is not comun and the main ingredient is kind ok flour maid of corn.
In Colombia there is a lot of ways to make Arepas. It can be sweet, salty, with cheese or all kind of different food on or inside of it.

To cook it here, I find this Colombian's store and there I find the right flour to do it.
This recipe is about the salty ones it is realy soft, and if you really like cheese I think you are going to love it.



Ingridients
2 cups of milk
2 cups of arepas's flour ( The one that's says dona arepa)
1 & 1/2 cups of mozarella grated chesse
2 spons of sugar
1 spoon of salt
1 tea spoon of Butter

  1. Put the flour and the cheese in a really big mixing boil.





2.  Put the warm milk in the mixing boil while you knead all the ingredients at the same time.





3.    Knead really well until all the ingredients seem like a uniform dough





4.    Take a handful of the dough and make a flat circular shape with it and put it in the frying pan. Make shore that the butter is well melted of all over the frying pan.


5. Let it cooked till it look like crunchy. Put some butter and salt on it. And ENJOY