Beets Are Awesome!
Day after Christmas, we had… you guessed it, Christmas Leftovers. Yum! My mother-in-law left quite a bit of turkey and salad here, so I cooked up a pot of rice and we made a meal of it. The turkey had been roasted, plus re-heated in the oven here, and I was worried about it being [...]
What a great Christmas Day
Image via Wikipedia Probably the best since I was a kid myself. We had Peruvian style Christmas, which means roast turkey and fixin’s at midnight – fairly simple this year, roasted potatoes and ensalada rusa. Of course, in true Peruvian fashion, we also had some thinly sliced red onion to go with it. Afterwards, we [...]
Candy for Christmas
Image via Wikipedia Money’s tight in the Borda household this Christmas, as I’m sure it is in many households this year. So, I’m going the home made route with some of our gifts. My favorite candy to make is a ‘no cook’ fudge that tastes nearly as good as something you’d slave over for hours, [...]
Arroz a la Cubana
Image by Secret Tenerife via Flickr What is it? It translates to ‘Cuban-style Rice’ and it’s my kids’ favorite meal. I could cook it 3 or 4 times a week, and they’d never get tired of it. It consists of a healthy-sized serving of rice, eggs fried over easy, and fried plantains. That’s it! It’s [...]
Apologies
I must apologize (only to myself, most likely) for the lack of posts in the last week. We had a death in the family and so I had other things on my mind. I’ll be back up to speed tomorrow, with some Christmas cooking.
Nothing to see here, Move along. ;p
We had leftovers yesterday. I cooked up a pot of rice, fried up some more sausage, and served that with the remains of the lentils from the day before. Today, we had eggs and toast. And mango, grenadilla (passion fruit) and oranges. We’re having Chinese take-out (which they call chifa here) for dinner tonight. It’s [...]
Peeling Tomatoes
Image via Wikipedia I live in Peru, and a lot of things I took for granted when cooking are either not available or are so expensive they just aren’t always worth buying. One of those things is canned tomatoes. They’re here, but they’re too expensive to use as a regular ingredient. So, I started using [...]
Soup is Awesome.
Image by cowfish via Flickr Despite waking up late, I made grill cheese sandwiches and hot chocolate for the boys for their breakfast. I thought with exams starting today, they needed something a little more substantial than cold cereal. Even though it’s full on late spring here in Peru, my family loves eating home made [...]
Home Cooking today
Image via Wikipedia My husband cooked up some bacon this morning, and woke me up with a yummy bacon sandwich on potato bread. With a glass of fresh made lime-ade. Yum, and that limaid sure felt good on my sore throat. For lunch today, I made what I consider ‘white trash’ cooking. My definition of [...]
A Not-so-auspicious Beginning
Image by jumbledpile via Flickr Of course, my first day of blogging my food, and it’s a day we went to the restaurant. However, I also did some shopping, so we’ll talk about that a bit, too. The boys got out of school early today, so we walked to Alex’s restaurant together. I actually don’t [...]
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I got tired of life happening while I made other plans, so I quit my job and came to Peru. I live here with my Peruvian husband, two sons, three dogs and various other family members, depending on the weather.
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