Food and Entertainment

• Chileans enjoy many of the same things we do.  They like skiing, snowboarding, soccer, sailing, fishing, tennis, golf, basketball, bowling, hiking, and biking.  However, they enjoy horse-back riding, rodeos, scuba-diving, and various other unique sports.

• Chileans are famous alcoholics.  However, they enjoy  drinks such as tea and soda.  They also enjoy vegetables and fish, as well as beef.  For breakfast, treat yourself to ham and eggs, lunch is the biggest meal with soup and meat.  Dinner is similar to lunch.

Empanadas (Meat Turnovers)

Ingredients: 3 ½ Cups of flour, 1 Pack of yeast dissolved in ¼ cup lukewarm water, 2 Eggs, ½ Cup lukewarm milk, Pinch of salt, 1 Stick softened butter, ½ LB. Ground beef, 2 Onions, chopped, 1 Clove garlic, minced, 1 Dried red pepper, crushed, 2 Hard-boiled eggs chopped, 8 pitted green olives, ½ Cup raisins, Paprika, marjoram to taste, Cooking oil, 1 Beaten egg.

Procedure: Place flour in a bowl, make well in center. Pour in the milk, eggs, and dissolve yeast; mix thoroughly. Add butter to obtain a smooth dough. Cover with plastic wrap and let stand for 2 hours. To prepare the stuffing: mix in the meat, onions, garlic and red pepper. Heat 2 tablespoons oil in a pan and cook the stuffing in it. Let it cool and add the chopped eggs, olives, raisins, paprika and marjoram to taste. Roll out the dough to a quarter inch thickness as if you were making a pie. Cut circles 4 inch diameter. Cover each half-circle the stuffing; brush the edges with the beaten egg. Fold each circle in two and press sides. In a pan, brown turnovers.

	Seafood is the favorite and most common type of meal in Chile.
	A tourist enjoys a typical seafood dish.
	Just a little peak into Chile's wine and alcohol craze.

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