Monday, 18 April 2011

Picking chilli in Chile!

The other weekend I spent in the countryside near cholchol with a family who we know through a teacher at school. I have spent other weekends with them before. I love the life in the campo. The gardens full of fresh veg, chickens and their young running round the garden and dinner cooked on a real open fire! This weekend I helped pick chillis! We went round to one of the familys friends house. They had rows and rows of chilli plants all dripping with green chillis. We all got to work picking them. Daniela (the 20 year old daughter) not so much as she is used to doing it every year and unlike me the prospect of picking chillis didnt really excite her very much. We ended up picking a huge bucket full. At home me and the mum sewed them all together so they would dry out in the sun the next day. After they had been put out in the sun for a day they all turned really pretty oranges, reds and yellows even though that morning they had all been green! For dinner we at tomatoes with chilli, bread with chilli and soup with chilli. Chileans are crazy for chilli, good thing I am too!

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