well hello and good morning from the sierras of cordoba here in argentina it is autumn here in the
southern hemisphere so i've been enjoying these beautiful colors that we are surrounded by they
just peaked like a week ago and yeah it's just really nice really beautiful and super peaceful
here in the countryside and autumn here in the sierras means that we have really cool mornings
then really hot afternoons and it cools down once again in the evenings because of the altitude
so i thought it would be really nice to just show you what an autumn day in the sierras is like
i've planned a nice little menu we're gonna prepare a hearty autumn stew and just enjoy
nature enjoy the colors and we'll see what the day brings but you're invited to come along
so
okay so this is the part of the video where i tell you i'm not really an amazing cook but i
figured i would share my recipe in case you want to try recreating this so basically this is a
sweet potato potato and carrot stew because that's what i was able to find at the market
so i started off by chopping some onions some leftover salami that we had in the fridge
put a little bit of extra virgin olive oil fried that up caramelized the onions
then i added in all my vegetables potato sweet potato carrots i put in some tomato paste
and then i took those canor cubes you know how you can get them with like beef chicken
vegetable flavor i took a veggie and tomato one diluted that in warm water
added that in because we needed more more liquid more volume and i've just tried it
now it needs a little bit of salt and i'm also going to be adding a spoonful of sugar
because i find the sugar kind of cuts that i don't know acidity the tomato sauce can have so that is
the plan so far i'm gonna let this cook for about half an hour or until my vegetables are soft and
then we will serve up this wonderful autumn stew and i also found a rosemary bush here in the yard
of the house we're renting you can see it right there so i just grabbed like three little shoots
i guess you could say and i'm just going to add them in a hole to add a bit of flavor to our stew
all right it is lunch time hi cheers cheers thank you for this wonderful stew this is
100 your creation effort i've been i've been writing a blog post all day so
i haven't done anything to help well sam does the dishes so i do the cooking he does the cleanup
i appreciate the warm plate of food in front of me yeah and it's just a quiet sunday the sun came
out so we've got blue skies oh there goes kitty running on crosstalk oh meowsies that's actually
where mr or the fox hangs out yeah wonder if they intersect here at some interact interact intersect
it's a very skittish cat i have to say oh yeah it's more skittish than the fox believe it or
not yes yes the fox is willing to get a little bit closer um and the funny thing about the fox
and i've noticed this about the other foxes on the property is that they will run away from you
but you have to get close and they only go a little bit they kind of only run away a little
bit and then they're at their comfort level away from you and they're not afraid but for instance
this cat just like just bolts and takes right off well i'm curious for you to try the the stew and
tell me what you think you don't need to exactly serious that's really good yeah that's great
it's funny like whenever we have a cloudy overcast day like low-hanging clouds i would say it's
really really cold and it feels like the middle of autumn but today the sun came out and it feels
like a summer's day so i've got this hearty dish for us and meanwhile that's not even that cold out
yeah the funny thing is you have to prepare for both right
being up in the high altitude too means that the the you do get that extreme of temperatures
we've got the t got the t now let's go find the shade
or in your case the sun take the shade thank you which way shall we go today um
we've got a lot of options why don't we go down to the big tree let's go to the tree
it's funny it's maybe the one of the funnier ones
tea please ty would you like your toy i'd love it here you choose here you go enjoy your time thanks
that's the worst accent of no particular country of all time sorry guys i just uh just had a shower
my hair is drying in real time yeah but um your hair is getting long yeah it's a busy day for
me i i banged out a 2 000 word blog post and um just took a shower so i'm letting my brain kind
of relax you know when you're writing when you're writing all day it sort of uh sort of takes up
a lot of your mental space so i'm really really excited just to chill right now i love that mate
cheers to relaxing cheers to the perpetual sounds of nature we hear out here yes cheers to all the
sunlight we've been getting too so this is a nice little routine we have going on we tried to go
out in the afternoons and either like have a cup of tea outside or enjoy a little 15-minute snooze
or just like lay down on the grass or go for like a sunset walk oh yeah we've been doing lots of
those yeah both we might do all three today we'll go hiking today for sure that's part of the plan
we still have we still have some sunlight hours yeah it just turned out to be such a nice day like
today honestly feels like summer this is not what i was expecting it was not the plan it doesn't
feel very automated temperature-wise we we kind of we kind of uh catapulted ourselves away from the
you know the end of a canadian winter too so even though it's not like mid-20s or anything
just feels very relatively warm at the moment so yeah it's just wonderful what do you think
no better place to take a nap i'm seeing all kinds of birds there's
little green green parrots that are coming back yeah another one i couldn't identify
they're very vocal you can hear them right now up there somewhere in that tree is that better than
netflix it's like this is like actually i should say this is like our own little personals not geo
and we have appears to be condors soaring above us oh my gosh well the gopro can't capture it they're
like little black dots but for now the parrots keep us company they're our best friend no the
foxes are best fox is the best one yeah it's ahead of the cat i like cats more but that cat
just doesn't get close enough so the fox is the best friend so basically our plan is to walk down
a new street every day wait a minute i love it yeah this is a the funny thing is probably the
the most convenient or easy route from our place and this is actually the first time we've tried
going down here literally no idea what we're gonna find just a dirt road let's see where it leads
this is a very cool plant here look at those feathers
there you go with the pigeons they are frightened away by our presence
so the two animals that are always in the back of my mind whenever i'm kind of walking down a very
rural lonely dirt road are the wild boars and the pumas now the pumas don't tend to wander into town
but they are in the area they do live in this part of the province but they're more they dwell more
in the mountains i would say yes so be quite a rare sighting to see one the thing is about the
puma i grew up in a i grew up in a part of canada where they had the pumas we call them cougars
is that they're they're so stealth that the chances of you actually seeing them
are they'll they'll see you before you'll see them most of the time they're usually camouflaging
or open trees or you know they're they're extremely strategic in the way they approach
well i guess potential prey really yeah so i have a funny story actually yeah on one of the earlier
trips not the first trip where i brought you here maybe the second one when my parents also came
but like you my mom and i had gone walking down a very lonely back road it was a dirt road and
people had warned us be careful for the pumas and then we went pretty far and then we're like oh we
should turn around and go back so we start walking back and i hear something that's following us and
i turn around and i see this furry like beige creature and i'm like oh no a puma has followed
us but it took me like a second for my brain to clue in like no this is a dog this is just a beige
dog that kind of looks like a color that reminds me of when we took togo to nova scotia
on cape breton island and he was we let him loose because we thought we were the only people in the
on this walking trail and i think the kind of kind of went around the corner and some people
thought he was a bear black bear it's quite bushy oh this is a nice nice area i've never
been here before this is actually this looks like it could lead a fair ways down so yeah
it's crazy because i grew up in this village and like i walked up and down the main road and
visited a few neighbors down some side streets but there's like some lovely like look at these views
you're gonna see the sierras in a few moments interesting brick home over here yeah so yeah
this is nice it's obviously new development since you since you were a young one here a young little
yeah this is so nice i'm excited to explore new roads and get to know this town and
what it's become over the past two decades we're filming uh a little clip for a week in the life
because we're just hanging out here on the porch as the wine as the wine goes down we've got sunset
the wine is going down by the way but sam just said something that's so true this is better than
netflix because right in front of us we've got a fox visiting who needs to be watching television
when you've got like wildlife wildlife not go to give it some gourmet cheese so whoever made she
loved it yeah i mean probably not the best thing to feed it obviously but it is absolutely lovely
but it was our first meeting with the fox the first meeting of welcome yeah and it was just
sitting around and hanging out on the grass like yeah if it feels like i think it feels okay around
here like we're not does it feel threatened it's just sitting down i think it is used to tourists
staying in the cottage and most likely feeding it because he came like a dog and he just lay
down and he was staring at us here on the porch and it's like oh you want something buddy it was
kind of cute yeah and now he's he's he's doing it now he's just curling up with his steel he's like
i'm just gonna rest here this is where i live actually i saw this fox when i woke up this
morning i think it was the same fox but we've got these big glass windows and he was just like dude
we've got some residents we've got some cats coming through
we've got some wildlife for sure we've seen
so yes wine chocolate that is how by the way this is a great flavor first time to try it
this is yours thank you trees swings three dreams shall we say it's milk chocolate white chocolate
and dark chocolate combined three layers of chocolate it's really nice stuff yeah and the
fox is still hanging out boxes that's great we're chilling we're chilling the fox is chilling every
creature every creature in the property is chilling including us also i just scooped
out two little flies from my for my wine but we're still going here still going strong
you