Learn Spanish Online or in Peru
When I first moved to Peru, I spoke very little Spanish. I thought I knew enough to get by, but I had learned Mexican Spanish, which has a very different accent. It took a while before I could understand the Peruvian accent well. If there was one thing I could have changed about my whole [...]
Best Time to Visit Peru
I got an email this week from someone planning on visiting Peru in September. She was wondering if this was a good time of year to visit, and what the weather would be like. The question got me thinking, this is probably a good topic to discuss here on the blog. The first thing to [...]
Taking Public Transportation in Lima – Using the City Buses
This is the 3rd and final post in the Lima transportation series. I really hope this has been of help to you! If there’s information about traveling in Lima that you’d like to know, let me know in the comments! ======================= The city of Lima, Peru is criss-crossed by a nearly indecipherable maze of bus [...]
Coupons for Cooking!
I know most of y’all come here looking for food and recipes, so when I came across these coupons, I figured I should share. Here’s a whole bunch of Campbell’s soup coupons – plus Pop Secret, Prego Spaghetti sauce and V8 juice products. The Betty Crocker website has a TON of great coupons available, on [...]
Salsa Golf – The Perfect Condiment
Image by Chimpanz APe via Flickr After I wrote a couple weeks ago about salchipapas, I started getting a lot of readers looking for the recipe. I was wondering to myself why anyone would need a recipe, it’s just fried potatoes and sliced hot dogs, not much to it. Then, I realized, what people really [...]
No Cream Soups? Make a Roux!
Image via Wikipedia When I lived in the US – you know.. for most of my life – I was a lazy cook. I liked to use a lot of packaged foods, like instant rice, noodle or rice mixes, and a lot of stuff out of cans. Now, I’m not gonna judge y’all and say [...]
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 [...]
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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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