A walk by the riverside and Fried quince pastries

I spent a fabulous week with my parents and one of their favorite places was Tigre a beautiful and green city localized on Tigre’s bank on Parana’s river Delta. I want to share with you our walked by the riverside and the adorable place who is Tigre, showing some information and

photos. I hope you enjoy this sight seen as we enjoyed.

The Delta of Parana is the fifth greatest one of the world, that begins in the Diamante Port in the province of Entre Rios (in its neighborhoods is the National Park Pre-Delta) and continues towards the Southeast up until Rio de la Plata, reason why is the only one that ends its course in sweet water Its great extension divides it in sections, the locality of Tigre is the first and most developed touristic section (the second section belongs to the delta of San Fernando declared Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO). It is thus, that the Tigre’s River Station, located on the river of the same name, at north of the province of Buenos Aires

The City of Tigre is a destination neither foreigners nor local people should miss. But beyond all activities, its main attraction is the Fruit Market, a different, almost magical world. The central docks concentrate the grocer's boats, which supply the inhabitants of the islands with the most varied products.

In the last harbor, the timbering boats full of poplar and willow logs from the forested islands of the Delta are unloaded.

The port of Tigre lodges the open market with streets full of the colors of rustic fabric, furniture and accessories made in cane and willow, delicious jams and honey, brilliant flowers, and of course, all the variety of native fruit co-existing in absolute harmony.

You also can found regional food in many restaurants in the riverside or around the city who offer typical Argentine dishes and grilled river fishes and wonderful bakeries too. We bought some fried pastries filled with quince jam knew as Pastelitos dulces

Fried Quince Pastries (or quince turnovers)

They are a frequent company for the cooked mate of the evening or for the brewed mate. They are made in several ways and with different kinds of dough.

Today you can make them with puff pastry that you can buy in the stores. Cut in big squares, some 8 cm. each side. For each pastelito you will use two squares of dough, in one of them you will place a little cube of sweet potato jelly or quince jelly.

You have to cover this sastequare with the other one, seeing that the corners of the botto

m square do not coincide with those of the top one, so that you make an eight pointed star. You must moisten the part around the cube of jelly with salty water in order to stick the dough’s, pressing with your fingers to mark the cube. They are fried in abundant lard and then sprinkled with sugar or light syrup

After the “asado”, the alfajores arrives

Yesterday at the end of the day I was watering my plants and flowers, and I felt the aroma of the firewood afire, quickly I thought "Is officially open the “asado” (Barbecue) season. " Although, here, there´s no bad time to make a good BBQ. Reminds me a TV commercial in a man watching a beautiful day says "Today is a good day for a BBQ" The weather and the man are substitute for another landscape and the weather is changing , until the last man in a stormy day l looks happy at his wife and said: ”This is a good day for a BBQ”End of the story . There´s no bad time for "asado" here

After the “asado” the Argentinean passion are the soccer, the maté, dulce the lech custard (flan) and talfajores. The alfajor is easy to make, basically it consists on padded circles of sweet pastry filled with dulce de leche and sprinkle with icing sugar , to these I have made them, having inspired by those that we buy at FranciscaA, but to these I adds them nuts. Hope you like

Nuts Alfajores

For the dought

300G wheat flour

100 G butter in room temperature

7 spoonful icing sugar

1 coffee spoon baking soda

1 coffee spoon baking powder

50 G blended nuts

1 Egg yolk

Mix the dry ingredients and increase the butter. Mixed well

And add the egg yolk. And mix again until obtain a homogeneous dough

Make a ball with the dough and cover with aluminium foil, or film foil, and let rest in the fridge for thirty minutes to an hour.

Roll the dough and cut circles of 4cm or 1, 97 inches of diameter for 0, 15 inches high.

Take to the oven at 180º C during 15 minutes until that is gilded below.

Filled with dulce de leche.

This recipe made around 12 big disks, but, can be cut smaller and they will be 24 disks or 12 alfajores