hey we're emily and danny and we've been traveling by Van from Alaska
down here to bariloche Argentina with our pets Graham and sombrita
well now that it's spring we can go on these nice little walks with the pets it is not summer yet
though I could not have worn these Open toed shoes yet I was a little excited for the warm weather
w've been camping
in the parking lot for a little while to ski every morning it's been super
nice here comfortable at night and we get to go on runs during the day
emily said hey why don't we walk up this mountain over here there's a whole field
of powder we don't have to go the whole way up I prefer not to go the whole way up because it
looks like everyone else goes the whole way up you can see all the mountains around us
just want to show you the most beautiful lift up here oh check out those Lakes you got the town
of bariloce back there heck of a ski resort down here number one in South America by my estimation
at this moment the area bariloche but the resort is called because the top has these granite spiers
the argentinians travel a lot and something that they usually sell on the street is empanadas so
I could not wait to try an Argentinian Empanada in Argentina I think it is umitas it's super good
it's kind of creamy on the inside but still perfectly crunchy on the outside oh look at
that brownness umitas means different things in different places sometimes it's a Tamal with sweet
corn on the inside so it's pretty tasty and now I guess it just means like a sweet corn empanada
and I got veggie of course mostly spinach and a little bit of corn that is delicious
because everybody said the best empanadas in the world are in Argentina the place that
we got it has so many people in and out you can tell this is like the really local spot
everybody's in there buying their lunch all right empanadas 10 out of ten will do again
so after the empanadas we are heading out onto our first little road trip in Argentina it's
called siete Lagos the route of the Seven Lakes everybody says this is super beautiful this road
goes from Bariloche at the southern end up to San Martin of the andes on the north end and it's only
a three hour drive but there's snow-capped Peaks beautiful drive should be a very beautiful nature
spot maybe a hike in our future and definitely a ski day so we're excited to take you guys there
this road is full of beautiful stops along the way but our most favorite is going to
be tomorrow we're heading to chapelco ski resort our second Argentinian Ski Resort
we
some argentinians who taught us all about mate we're going to show you
how the mate Works in a minute but today he let me borrow his snowboard
check this out
on the skis
yeah so up here on the homies equipment thank you guys and now we're gonna give you a little
demonstration of how to pour the authentic Argentinian mate which is enjoyed by all
argentinians and passed around shared with people so we're about to share with you how that works in
this video tutorial we're gonna see the steps to make the perfect mate my assistant this is
a mate cup which is just called mate inside that was a perfect shay so you have to fill
that to the top no not until the top we want it like let's make it like good for this mate
almost there that's fine like three quarters three quarters yeah 75 percent a little more yeah
so now you put your hand here you shake it a little of the dust off and you leave it like
this you know like a little hole in this side then my assistant will give me the thermos with water
and you pour the water where the hole is on this side so you have to put the water on
to the top no we just want a little bit wet but you want to keep some yerba dry
you see because if not it's not gonna taste it's not gonna last
as much then you take the straw you put your finger here from the top on the top
you put it where the water is and it has like a filter so that the it does and every time you
pour a mate you don't want the whole thing to get wet so you put the water in the hole and
just like this you want the dry part to last as long as possible and then you just drink it nice
perfect little spoon with the little holes on the bottom so that the water
goes through but the yerba doesn't so that's the Argentinian ritual of
having mate with friends and she's going to show us how to wrap it up here you know
eventually the Water Runs Out the person who drinks last is gonna get married next
you can compost it yes oh yeah is natural so you can just throw it wherever maybe you're not here
but like in a hole any tree and then you just clean the water and then you have the Matera
which is the bag specially made to carry mate around when you put the thermos in the middle
in one side and the yerba in the other side mate and you just go everywhere perfect
and after that you have your Argentina passport
all right see you later wow this is the vanderson style apres ski here yeah we
had the friends down here too they had to go to work so I had a really nice snack
thanks Emily no problem anytime I'd love an opportunity she loves making a board
plate you call that a board call it a board I'm gonna call that a board so now that you
saw how we skied with the friends we saw now that you saw the mate let's go buy our own
we did it we bought our mate
so I'll show you guys all of the stuff that has to do with our new mate we have to cure it and that's
because the mate which is just a cup is made out of pumpkin it's called calabasa in Spanish
it's porous and if we just start drinking from it right away it'll taste a little bit more bitter
and it might break the mate and you want to use these for a long time the longer you use it the
better it gets so we're gonna try and cure our mate today so this is the mate over here we have
the yerba we have an old cup of yerba mate which we just made in this Mexican cup that we got you
have to use used yerba for to cure your mate but we don't have another mate cup so we have to do
this in not a traditional cup at some point and this is the straw bombilla in Argentinian Spanish
is just a straw these straws specifically have a filter on the bottom which is really useful
for drinking this loose leaf tea so that none of the leaves get in your mouth and also at the
end you can kind of scoop out your yerba now that I've told you about the different names you might
have noticed that I'm saying them differently than you normally would in Spanish and that's
because Argentinian Spanish is super different from any other Spanish in regular Spanish double
L's are usually said like a y but in Argentinian Spanish they're said with like s h j like sha it
is the same with the Y in yerba it's very fun to listen to hard to remember to do
um but since these are all Argentinian things I'm gonna try and do it every time like that
that's just because I want to give respect to the argentinians while I say all of their Argentinian
words for their Argentinian things different kind of mates can come in different shapes sizes
different materials this is the most traditional mate from the guarani indigenous group so now
that I've told you all about all the different components of a yerba mate I'm going to take
our old yerba and put it into our new mate this is going to sit in here with some lukewarm water
for 24 hours I've watched about 10 15 YouTube videos in English in Spanish but this seems
to be the constant you have to use used yerba new cup and also this is what our Argentinian
friend said to us as well I'm just pouring in some water to fill the cup up you don't want to use a
normal tea kettle for the mate because normally you would be pouring it into a specific part of
the mate but since we're just filling it to cure it I use just regular kettle mate is actually
a quechua word that means gourd a container to drink from or infusion of herb so it's kind of
all those things in one we are so excited for all of our future yerba mates thanks so much
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