Empanadas - a staple diet!

Having got settled in to our new apartment yesterday, we decided to go for an explore around the local area. It works out that if we walk 10 minutes from our apartment we are in the Palermo Soho area with its trendy boutiques and creative cafes and this is where we discovered our new love - empanadas with cervezas - YUM! If you've not tried empanadas before, I would describe them as little parcels of deliciousness which contain either carne (meat) or such delights as spinach and mozarella and, at £2 each in even the nicest bar, I think we're going to be eating a lot of these bad boys.

Palermo Soho:

Empanadas:

 

Having got our fill, we decided to head off in the direction of the local supermarket to stock up on supplies. Turns out supermarkets here aren't as cheap as we expected, most items are of similar prices to the UK. In fact the cheapest things to buy are steak (any cut you can think of in abundance), beer and red wine - hmm, I think I know what we'll be eating for the next month at least then... 

Steak Shelf:

Our only problem now is that we're getting by on just 5 words of Spanish - hola, gracias, por favor, dos and cervezas and it doesn't seem to be going very far, next stop Spanish lessons...