Chilcano de Pescado
A couple of weeks ago, I posted a recipe for the Chilcano de Pisco, a delightful Pisco drink. At the time, I said not to confuse it with Chilcano de pescado, which is a fish soup. Then I got to thinking, the best way to make sure no one gets them mixed up would be [...]
Adobo de Pollo
Back in December, when I was doing the whole Reverb10 thing, I did a post about how I love to cook and how cooking for my family “completes me”. I added a picture to that post of a dish called adobo de pollo, thinking I’d soon put a recipe for it on here – and [...]
Choros a la Chalaca
There’s a slang word here in Peru, choro, that means “punk” or “thug”. You may read in the papers how two choros broke a car window and made off with a lady’s purse. But choro has another meaning, too – it’s the word for the delicious mussels that only come from the Pacific coast of [...]
Cau Cau de Mondongo
Much like in the US, there are dishes in Peru that are remnants from the days when slavery was common. These dishes are usually made using the “less desirable” cuts of meat and food that was cheap or even left over from the slave owners. In the US, we have chitterlings (or chitlins, as most [...]
Sopa a la Minuta – Quick and Easy Lunch or Dinner
Peruvian cooking, for the most part, takes time. Most cooking is from scratch, and often there’s preparation that has to be done in advance, like making aderezos or preparing aji. But even Peruvian cuisine has some simpler dishes (ok, comparatively speaking) that can be cooked up fairly quickly. One of those dishes is sopa a [...]
Drinking the Tiger’s Milk
Welcome to Monday! We had a great weekend here in Lima, sunny and warm – I’d dare say the first truly summer feeling weekend of the year here in Miraflores. One of our favorite things to do on a Sunday is head out for ceviche, and that’s exactly what we did this weekend. We went [...]
Aguadito de Pollo
As I mentioned the other day, and probably several times before over the last couple years (!), Peruvian lunches are usually big and often have two or more courses. Soup is a favorite first course, and it’s usually a lighter soup made using leftover bones or chicken parts, like the neck, giblets and feet. However, [...]
Quinoa Soup – Sopa de Quinua
Image via Wikipedia The Incas really knew what they were doing when it came to nutrition. Quinoa (or quinua) was a major part of their diet, second only to the potato. They held it sacred, and called it the ‘mother of all grains’. The truth is that quinoa isn’t actually a grain. Grains come from [...]
Ceviche
Image via Wikipedia For whatever reason, it took me a long time to come around to actually making ceviche. Because it’s considered the ultimate Peruvian food, the emblem of Peruvian cuisine, I was really worried about trying to make it and just totally screwing it up and being a failure as a Peruvian wife and [...]
Tallarin Verde – Peruvian Green Spaghetti
Back in my old life in Florida, I was never really much of a pesto eater. Not because I dislike it, but simply because it’s not something that ever came up in my day to day life. But since I’ve come to Peru, I’ve learned to love tallarin verde (green noodles), which is a pesto [...]
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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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