Posted in Desserts & Bakery, Potatoes on Sep 26th, 2008
The sweet potato is, in an unmerited way, not so popular as the potato - well, it’s easier to combine the potato with a bigger number of dishes, but if we want to prepare a dessert, we’ll have here a great allied. This dish is very easy to prepare and its ingredients are well known. [...]
Posted in Entrees & Sandwichs, Potatoes on Sep 23rd, 2008
It’s curious: in the land where the potato was born, we have been prefering the rice as the main accompaniment. Well, things are changing due the rise of the rice price (rhyme!) and the peruvian government has begun a campaign to promote the consume of potatos (“Papea Per煤”) in the International Year of the Potato. [...]
Posted in Desserts & Bakery, Others on Sep 19th, 2008
The word chimbo refers to a kind of dessert made with eggs, syrup and almonds. The huevo chimbo is a traditional rich egg-based dessert, made with egg whites, butter, cinnamon, cloves and decorated with almonds. Does it sound good? it’ll be better when you try it. This recipe is for 10 people.
Posted in Fruits, Liquors & Drinks on Sep 18th, 2008
This is an old, old recipe. A lot of years ago, this was an obliged drink every August 30th - the Santa Rosa de Lima feast. People used to peregrinate to her home town, Quives -now known as Santa Rosa de Quives-, and the lemonade was prepared with blessed roses after the Mass. With this [...]
Posted in Fruits, Liquors & Drinks on Sep 17th, 2008
This is an old, tasty and refreshing pisco-based liquor. It’s better if you drink it next to a meal. The sol y sombra is very fast to prepare, so you can give a little surprise to your friends. Take your peruvian pisco, morello cherry cream, ginger ale and limes, and make magic.
Posted in Main Courses, Spaguetti & Pasta on Sep 16th, 2008
If we mix the italian and peruvian cuisine, we can only get wonderful dishes. This is a great example: a simple dish of spaguetti with butter can turn in a delicious and exotic dish if a little of yellow chili/pepper sauce is added. Fast and tasty. Can we ask more? this recipe is for 8 [...]
Posted in Beef, Main Courses on Sep 8th, 2008
There is a lot of ways to prepare the meatballs: with tomatoes, with pasta, with mushrooms, baked, fried and ad infinitum. Today we’ll see the peruvian way, with yellow/chili pepper, parsley, bread, olives (although it’s better if I say “one of the peruvian ways”!). With this recipe, you’ll get enough meatballs for 6 people (or [...]
Posted in Chicken & other birds, Main Courses, Rice on Sep 4th, 2008
This is a traditional dish originated in the north of Peru (the city of Chiclayo is very popular due its cuisine, and the rice with duck is typical from there). It’s similar to the rice with chicken, but you’ll find an all new taste in this recipe. Follow it and you’ll get rice with duck [...]
Posted in Entrees & Sandwichs, Fish & Seafood on Sep 3rd, 2008
This is another excellent recipe for seafood. Maybe you remember the fish chicharron recipe; there we explained that the chicharron is a dish consisting in deep fried meat; in this case, squids. Usually it’s served with tartar sauce in any cebicheria (the restaurants where the fish cebiche is sold). You can use it as an [...]
Posted in Entrees & Sandwichs, Vegetables & Legumes on Sep 2nd, 2008
You don’t need to call to any fast food restaurant if you want a good sandwich. In fact, if you want a delicious AND healthy sandwich, you can have it in five minutes with this recipe. There’s no need to say a lot about olives (you must have heard about olive oil, mustn’t you? well…) [...]
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