Happy National French Fry Day!

Well, I’m really hoping that you’re all excited with me to make this Thursday an epic fry-day???? Honestly though, in what world could this be a bad decision, right?

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So most of you already know that I lived in Chile for years and that I’m currently visiting in the States. Wow, sometimes it’s still hard even for me to grasp that concept even though we lived there for so long. Already this new year has seemed to be changing with each new day and I feel like I’m trying to catch up and find my equilibrium.

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I’ve had a lot of people ask me why I so rarely share Chilean food recipes when I live here surrounded by it all the time and I was trying to explain it to someone the other day. The best way I can describe it is to tell you what it was like to move to a new culture from the one we left. We arrived there and everything was so vastly different from what we were used to, especially the food.

Don’t get me wrong, I love trying new flavors and I really like Chilean cuisine, but on those early days in this new culture, when we were getting a little (okay fine, a lot) homesick, what we all were craving were the familiar comfort foods from our own culture. Trying to recreate them became more of my focus, and besides, whenever we do want authentic Chilean food it’s available everywhere. See my point? It was one of the last things I wanted to make at the time.

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Things are different now that we’ve been here a while and we’ve gotten familiar with our surroundings. In fact, I’ve recently been gaining an interest in learning how to make all the traditional types of food made in Chile so I can share them. I thought I’d start with something that I know my family likes, it’s called chorrillana. Basically it’s a heaping pile of fries, topped with strips of beef, sautéed onions, and some fried eggs on the top (because those are a must in Chilean cuisine). It’s not a very complex or difficult dish but I think that’s what’s so brilliant about it.

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Everyone has their own style of making it here. Some variations scramble the eggs and some of them have things like chorizo sausage added, but I decided to go for minimalism. Actually, I was seriously considering if I wanted to add homemade barbecue sauce, generous amounts of cheese, and some crispy bacon. I still think that it sounds amazing, but after playing my phone-a-Chilean card and consulting the counsel of my Chilean friend, I changed my mind. I asked him what he thought of my idea and he sort of implied it wouldn’t go over with the locals. Haha, I also asked him if they’d have kicked me out of the country for messing up a perfectly good chorrillana and you know what? He didn’t argue! (Haha) So yeah, I chickened out. Hey, but it’s definitely happening next time!

So let me know what you think of this one if you try it. I genuinely love to know and it always makes my day when I find out someone is currently enjoying recipe that shared.

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As always, the recipe is available upon request. The first request gets an upvote.

ALL CONTENT IS MINE AND ORIGINAL! All of these food photos were taken with my Nikon D5300 and my favorite Lens, the Nikon AF-S FX NIKKOR 50mm f/1.8G. You can find out more in my INTRO POST. And by the way, my intro post did a huge $0.21