So we are cooking sancocho...
Sancocho is a soup.
A soup from Colombia and
soups are typically... Colombia is kind of divided by the lowlands and the highlands...
And the highlands are bit colder, you know, it's up in the mountains...
So you cook a lot of soups and Colombia has a lot of starches.
Like all kinds of root vegetables and variations of potatoes.
An awesome soup and technically they get better on day two or three...
Because the flavors really start to seep out and infuse into each other.
We generally don't eat out very much at all so we cook most of our meals.
Almost all of them, but we can't cook everyday...
At least not with a baby. It's impossible.
Oscar accuses me of opening everything like a "mapache" a raccoon.
We don't buy meat, generally. We don't want to support the meat industry.
So we try to get all of our meat locally.
We live in Alaska. We're so close to wild...
Wild food, so it's like, why not just go harvest it?
Having roadkill moose meat...
Seems like a really good way to get meat that...
The animal would have died anyway so why not eat it?
But yeah it's an issue. A lot of moose are hit and it would be tragic...
I mean it's sad that moose are hit. It's sad that we have this...
Problem, but I'm really glad there is a program where we can at least...
Harvest that meat. And moose are being killed by cars so...
It makes sense that we can do this and it's considered an...
At least, I consider it a dignified thing to do and not gross.
I think we both feel and would agree that it's about...
Health and eating healthier...
We have the option to buy a better choice of food so why not...
Why not do that?
I mean I started cooking when I was 12 and really loved it.
The best gift I ever got was when I was 15 and my dad got me...
An Indian cooking kit with all the spices and daal and Basmati rice...
And tamarind paste. And so I learned how to cook Indian food.
Cook I think since I was a teenager has been one of my favorite...
Ways to learn about the world, luckily.
Yeah I love cooking and it's a creative process.
It's an artistic process and Oscar and I are both artists.
And it's always felt like a part of that art is cooking. Except it's the part...
That you have to do. I'm kind of lazy about my art. I don't always do it.
But I do have to cook so it's a way to bring art into my everyday life.
Ooh.. That's spicy.
Gotta make sure there's yuca in each bowl because yuca is my favorite part.
I love to cook a good meal. I love to feed people. I guess that's the other part...
Food is love and I love to feed people, especially my daughter.
She's the person that I love feeding the most.