Sangria Mmmmm

I think this one speaks for itself.

Enchiladas verdes de pollo

Here, my friends and I made salsa verde by boiling tomatillos and chiles rather than roasting them, and made homemade tortillas but this time with wax paper which made it muchhhh easier. 

We boiled then shredded chicken and topped it all off with queso fresco and a side of refried beans, not homemade but you really couldn't tell. Can't remember the brand though. 

Empanadas Argentinas!!!

Another staple if you've ever been to Argentina:

Here my friends and I made several fillings for our empanadas and used a store-bought pie crust for the dough. 

We made some with butternut squash and corn, some with ground beef, chiles and hardboiled egg, and some with sweet and spiced butternut squash. 

The beef turned out pretty much exactly how we remembered them. 

We had an empanada press but I found it was actually easier to just stuff and roll them by hand, not to mention prettier! 

(You'll probably be able to tell which ones were mine.)

Argentine Torta!

I chose to make this dish similar to the way my host mom did in Argentina. My roomie and I had two of these to last us all weekend every weekend when she'd head off to her weekend home in Las Pampas. Usually, we had one of cebolla (and seriously, this means CEBOLLA, nothing else), one of spinach and cheese, or ham and cheese. I don't like ham, so if it was an onion torta I had to suck it up and eat it. 

Below are two that I've made; the first is a spinach and swiss, the second a butternut squash. 

This closest analog I know is a quiche, however torta has less eggs and more veggies and cheese. 

Torta pascualina is a very similar Argentine pie that also has hard boiled eggs inside and more spinach and less egg. Mine is basically a cross between the two.

I hand made the crust with flour, oil, egg and baking powder. 

The filling is onion and spinach, sauteed, swiss cheese and 5 eggs.

Basically, delicious. I lived off of these.