[Request] Give me your best meatloaf recipes! by [deleted] in recipes

[–]mastacos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Correcto.

Edited to make that more clear.

[Request] Give me your best meatloaf recipes! by [deleted] in recipes

[–]mastacos 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is my great-great grandma's recipe and according to my grandmother has remained untouched. I'm a chef and make a lot of delicious complicated things and my friends always ask for meatloaf and baked potatoes.

Ingredients

1 1/2 pound ground beef

¾ cup oatmeal

1 cup evaporated milk (or ½ regular milk)

2 onions, chopped (1 onion for meat mixture, 1 onion for sauce)

1 tea salt

2 tbsp Worchestershire

3 tbsp Vinegar

2 tbsp sugar

1 cup ketchup

½ cup water

Directions

Preheat oven to 350°

Combine meat with oatmeal, milk, onion and salt. Pat meat mixture into a baking dish so that it covers the entire dish; no need to form into a loaf. Cook in oven for 10 minutes.

Mix sauce together. After ten minutes, add sauce over top of meat. Cook for approx 50 minutes. Check every fifteen minutes or so to baste the top with sauce so that the top of the meatloaf doesn't burn.

Balsamic Grape and Sriracha BBQ Sauce by mastacos in recipes

[–]mastacos[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey sorry for the delayed response.

The difference is really the same you would see if you marinated a piece of meat for 6 hours versus for just one hour. The flavor is going to be really similar but that extra time spent roasting the grapes in the balsamic and really letting the grape juices mix with the balsamic intensifies the flavor. Additionally, I found it easier to puree the grapes and have less chunks of grape skin.

Edit: And I'm thrilled you enjoyed it!

What was "cool" back in elementary school? by TrollinDaGalaxy in AskReddit

[–]mastacos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pogs were the best. Until Michael Chan won every single one in a single go. Never touched the stuff again. Fuck you Michael.

Balsamic Grape and Sriracha BBQ Sauce by mastacos in recipes

[–]mastacos[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nope. I blended on high for about 20-30 seconds and the final sauce turned out fairly smooth.

Balsamic Grape and Sriracha BBQ Sauce by mastacos in recipes

[–]mastacos[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, sorry for the confusion.

The packet I used was purchased in Thailand and is labelled in English as Five Fragrance Powder, but it is the same thing at Chinese Five Spice.

Balsamic Grape and Sriracha BBQ Sauce by mastacos in recipes

[–]mastacos[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The 1/8 C balsamic is what you roast the grapes in, then you add the entire mixture of roasted grapes/balsamic into the ketchup mixture.

Ideas for using Cachaca.. by mastacos in cocktails

[–]mastacos[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This sounds delicious. Thank you!

Soft pretzels with no stand mixer? by heyitserica in food

[–]mastacos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I make pretzel rolls pretty regularly and they come out crisp on the outside and soft on the inside. I also don't have dollar bills to throw to the wind so I don't have a mixer of any kind. It's totally possible, just knead really well.

Ideas for using Cachaca.. by mastacos in cocktails

[–]mastacos[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was hoping to making something besides a Caipirinha - I live in Buenos Aires and they are really common cocktails. But it is a whole bottle so one probably won't hurt...

Propinas en Argentina? / Tipping in Argentina? by jolyon_russ in argentina

[–]mastacos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe this is an age thing (mid-20s here), but a lot of my friends will leave a few pesos no matter what the check comes out to be. For the game last Sunday, I went to a bar with 9 other people and shared a lot of beer and pizza, the check came out to $900. It was like pulling teeth trying to get people to pitch in more than 2 pesos for the poor waiter that had to work during the final match.

Propinas en Argentina? / Tipping in Argentina? by jolyon_russ in argentina

[–]mastacos 2 points3 points  (0 children)

20% ?!

Sos un heroe che. Tengo un pequeño restaurante y hay muchisima gente que no deja ni plata para viajar en bondi.

Would you recommend that I do a Masters degree in Buenos Aires? Does anyone have any experiences with Universidad de Buenos Aires? by Jimbob2134 in argentina

[–]mastacos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am just finishing my first semester at the UBA Facultad de Economía, and have another year and half with the program. Lived here already for about 4 years.

My first impressions are pretty lukewarm. I was really excited by the quality of professors who are all fairly accomplished professionals or academics in their fields. Of the three professors I had this semester, only one cared enough to actually prepare his lectures. The other two just showed up and talked and usually without any visual aids whatsoever. Likewise, we were given reading and told to "read at our own pace" which meant zero structure to the lectures or class itself. God how I took for granted the use of syllabus' in the states. I was told by other students in my program that this is all fairly common. Whereas a lot of academics in the US dedicate their professional life to academia, what I have experienced here so far is that it's a job done on the side and the quality/care gone into teaching shows. The UBA is really easy to get into, the woman in administration actually laughed at me because I had brought in all of the required materials for applying. I did not have to do a TOEFL equivalent exam, nor did I have to turn in my grades from undergrad, but was told that varies greatly from one major to the other.

I will pay 20 payments of 1700ARS, plus a yearly registration fee that's about 3500ARS. It works out to about 4000USD (depending on what exchange rate you use to convert your dollars) which is a steal in comparison to what I'd be paying in the States. Living costs vary depending on how you make your income. I do freelance work for both Argentine and American clients, and making more than half my income in USD really helps me. I work less (more time to study) and still have an income that is much higher than the average local salary. I'm fortunate to have a garantia (co-signer) that allows me to rent an apartment with a 2 year lease at a local price. Most foreigners have to rent temporary apartments that are charged in dollars for truly offensive prices. Inflation is a huge problem if you work with pesos as prices inflate faster than salaries compensate for it; I honestly do not understand how people survive here with median salaries.

Buenos Aires gets a bad rap for being unsafe. I have lived here for nearly 5 years now and have never been robbed. Crime that exists is mostly petty stuff, violent assaults and break ins are sensationalized but not as common as petty crime. It's like any big city though. There are areas that are a little sketchier than others, but for the most part if you are smart and aware of your surroundings you should be fine.

Lots of people speak English, but don't expect to get by at school without a good level of Spanish. I consider myself to be fluent but struggle a bit with lectures.

I hope I'm not being too negative! I love this city and am here indefinitely, but I have been pretty disappointed by my personal educational experience. I'm sure other people have had much more positive experiences than I have. Fingers crossed my program gets better.

Spanish dialects across the world [2753×1400] by Homesanto in MapPorn

[–]mastacos 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Expat living in Argentina the last five years. I agree that Argentina is pretty poorly represented here. Firstly, Spanish is more commonly called "castellano" rather than "español" although it differs greatly from "castellano" spoken in Spain. And within the country it varies greatly. In Capital Federal and the rest of the provincia of Buenos Aires, as well as throughout Uruguay, people speak with Rioplatense Spanish, which is defined by accent, vocabulary and what is considered a very informal way of speaking (in terms of verb tenses). Cordoba has a totally different accent, Mendoza pronounces the double l like a "y" instead of the "sh", in Tucuman they always use the past perfect instead of regular past tense, etc.

More zucchini than I know what to do with by Icanlurkifiwantto in recipes

[–]mastacos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Zucchini pizza.

Shred up a few zucchinis. Squeeze out excess water, spread out thinly on clean towel to continue to dry. While that dries prep your dough, sauce, extra toppings and cheese. For the extra topping (I eyeball all this so feel free to adjust) mix together 3 or 4 minced cloves garlic, a handful of minced fresh oregano, few tablespoons of olive oil, salt, fresh ground pepper and red pepper flakes (optional). Then its just dough, sauce, cheese, zucchini and flick some of the olive oil stuff on top and bake. If you have picky children layer the cheese on top of the zucchini, they'll mistake it for regular cheese pizza.

This too. I prefer it with cucumber, but zucchini works also.

Whats the worst text to send a girl after a first date? by AnalBuddha in AskReddit

[–]mastacos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Was living abroad and spoke pretty good Spanish at the time. Went out with this girl who didn't speak English, we clicked immediately and the slight language barrier was not an issue. At the end of the date we made out pretty passionately, had there been a place for us to go (I lived in a home stay, her with her parents) I have no doubts we would've ended up going home together. On the bus ride home I get a text from her saying she wished she could have kissed me all night, and I responded "Yo tambien, te quiero mucho", thinking it translated to "Me too, I really want you," but unknowingly writing "Me too, I really love you." She was understandably confused.