Once a week, we stop by El Mercadito in Puerto Octay and pick up our vegies for the week.  Senor Mercadito buys at the wholesale market in Osorno or from locals. So we get what is grown in Chile in season. No imported foods from half way around the world here! Really local foods would include potatoes, onions, swiss chard, cabbage, cilantro, and berries and apples in season. Most of the rest will come from locations just north of here in central Chile. Here is our purchase from last week.


This includes the gargantua celery, a huge head of cabbage, a very large stem of broccoli, 5 cloves of garlic, 4 bell peppers, 5 kiwi, 8 bananas, 9 onions, and a bag of 7 carrots (the sweetest I've ever eaten!) All this costs 9,000 pesos or about $18.


Here is our favorite fast food treat - pan con chicharrones - yummy goodness for bacon lovers. This is a roll that has chunks of smoked pork baked into it. It costs about $1 per roll. You can find it at most bakeries and every little town has a market with at least a small bakery in it and a few specialty chilean breads like the maraqueta roll. More on that later. And now I will leave you with a few spectacular pictures because Volcan Osorno's presence is always here and the beautiful wide open skies.

Look at that beautiful glowing cap from the last ray of the sun's day

Sunrise

Always some interesting cloud formations over the mountain