Author: Javier
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The Epic Tale of Tongo and Zongo
In a land far far away, there was one ruler and one ruler only. His name…Chupetongo! En una tierra lejana, donde habia un y solo un emperador solamente. Su nombre….Chupetongo! He had the strongest jaws in Doggoland, capable of turning bone into dust in just seconds. He was the highest jumper, the fastest runner and…
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Chupete shirt pre-order….warm weather will be here soon!
By popular demand Chupete shirts are coming back!! This time we will be printing 2 designs. Due to the large amount of people asking us for the Nashville shirt (the first one to come out last year) we will print a few Nashville shirts, and since we like to come up with new designs, the Louisville…
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Seafood soup
Since the weather has been acting up (it is amazingly warm in January), I was afraid that “soup weather” would go away before I could try out a few more recipes! I have been craving “caldillo de marisco” for a long long time (caldillo is a seafood soup very popular in Chile) so I thought…
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A weekend of Puerto Rico
Javi and I just wrapped a terrific weekend spent in the company of Ian and Andrea who came down from Chicago to visit for a few days. We found out they were coming last weekend so it was a great surprise – Ian had a few meetings for work that he managed to schedule on…
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Directly from the Rodriguez’ chest of memories / Fotos del baul de los recuerdos
Last week I received an email from my sister Paula with a bunch of old family pictures that she found in an old chest. Back in Chile we have a ton of pictures that Leslie and I want to bring back to Nashville to digitize. Looking through old pictures is so much fun for us…
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Easy (inexpensive) DIY book shelves
I mentioned in our last post that I bought a 4 x 8 sheet of MDF and saved the extra material for another project. Well, this is the project…book shelves! Leslie has always wanted a room surrounded with bookshelves full of books…also known as a library. Our new office could not host a full library…
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Batteries recharged!…now back to the grind
Our vacation is over. Tomorrow we are going back to work, school and the regular schedule…it’s inevitable, but looking back we had a blast and our “batteries” have been recharged! Nuestras vacacioes han terminado. Manana volvemos al trabajo, las clases, y la rutina regular…es inevitable, pero mirando hacia atras lo pasamos muy bien y nuestras…
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Five Points Pizza!
For all of you pizza lovers out there, there is a relatively new pizza joint in East Nashville that has some of the best pizza pies around. Thanks to our friend Art we learned about a Five Points Pizza and the deliciousness they offer, both in pizza and their selection of yummy brews. Seriously, pizza and…
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HaviAir’s Chicken Consommé
Now that the cold weather has officially arrived in Middle Tennessee (not welcome by the way…it sucks) I felt the need for a good soup. To me a good cold weather soup needs a tasty broth, some veggies and some kind of meat. That is my favorite kind of soup, and Cazuela is the best…
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How to help the economy and be a conscious consumer
Leslie and I always talk about how we would like to start up our own small business someday. We have had plenty of ideas; from a bar to a coffee shop to a vintage/art/crafts store to a restaurant to a t-shirt truck…and a few more. Since we are not ready to embark on such an…
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The Dog Spot needs YOUR help!
The Dog Spot has become our favorite place to take our dogs when we need a place to take care of them. Check out our previous post about this great place. We really love this local business and love that the people who run it are passionate about what they do. We feel that for…
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The Family Wash!
In our previous post, Leslie forgot to mention our Saturday night dinner at The Family Wash. The Family Wash is another great place in East Nashville, with a cool atmosphere, good beer and AMAZING Shepherd’s Pie!!! En el post anterior sobre el fin de semana, Leslie se olvido de mencionar nuestra cena el Sabado en…
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an End-of-Semester kind of weekend
Last weekend was about as perfect as a weekend can get. I’m closing in on the end of the semester and I can almost see the light at the end of an extremely long, dark and unforgiving tunnel of academia. Ok – it’s not really all that bad. In fact, I feel pretty good about…
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Pied Piper eatery!
So to continue on the thread of South Inglewood being awesome….We thought we’d write about our favorite, truly local restaurant: The Pied Piper Eatery! Para continuar con la serie de post diciendo lo genial que el South Inglewood…..Pensamos que seria bueno escribir sobre nuestro autentico restaurant local favorito: The Pied Piper Eatery! This is the…
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Annual Jacobs and Mudgett visit!
Last weekend Leslie’s aunt Shelley, uncle John and friends Kellie and Scott came to visit us (as in, John and Annie and Joan and me and Leslie) in Nashville. Their trip to Nashville is turning into a yearly tradition (we’re working on bi-annual), and we love to see them here since we haven’t been able…
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The Silly Goose – El Ganso Tonto
Every time we go to a restaurant in East Nashville we come out and think: “I love to live on this side of town. It’s so crazy that we never came here before moving”. One of our first restaurant adventures on this side of town, before we moved here, was thanks to our friend Michael…
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Cazuela! – Chilean Food
Cazuela is a typical Chilean dish that is the perfect meal on a cold day. It’s a chicken soup, but it’s so much more than that. Javier first made cazuela for me when we were dating in 2008. He was trying to introduce me to different Chilean foods, but in America it’s hard to find…
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Installing an in-wall timer
Tired of flipping a switch?! Sick of forgetting to turn the outside light?!?! Do you have nightmares about your power bill?!?!?!?! Worry no more with ……. A timer switch!!!! Cansado de mover interruptores?! Aburrido de olvidarse de apagar la luz de afuera?!?! Tiene pesadillas sobre su cuenta de luz?!?!?!?! No se preocupe mas….use un interruptor…
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