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Monthly Archive for November, 2008

What happen if you mix a french ingredient with peruvian style? you get wonders. This is a fast and easy alternative to the cakes. You’ll only need bread, butter, gruyère and eggs to prepare this delicious bread with cheese. Enjoy it! This recipe is for 6 people.

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This drink is totally different to the anisette, but it’s very good too. Usually it’s served after the meals (specially if it was a heavy one) because the aniseeds have digestive properties. Like all good things, it takes a little time: the aniseed liquor will need 15 days to be ready. This recipe is for [...]

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This recipe gives you an easy way to surprise your family and friends. It’s easy but elegant; the recipe is old but tasty and you’ll get fun preparing it. You’ll have to stuff the potatoes, just like the potatoes stuffed with cheese and chili/pepper recipe but this time they’ll get enveloped with beaten egg. Sounds [...]

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Maybe you’ve noted that the onions are a main ingredient in the peruvian cuisine: we can’t imagine a cebiche, lomo saltado or escabeche without onions. This old and traditional dish use another common ingredient in our food: the olives. If you want to move away the vampires, take some onions and prepare this exotic and [...]

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The cold season is starting in several zones in the world. In the winter, the grannies added a little of stock to this delicious lamb entree. In this way, the family was delighted with a lamb cazuela or a concentrated soup that not only was nutritional but hot - goodbye, cold!. This recipe is for [...]

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This isn’t a version of the manjarblanco. The manjar de almendras is a traditional and ancient dessert, born in the peruvian colonial age. You can still find some of this delicious dishes in some old convents. Pay attention: A group of almonds are not ground well, so you can taste them. This recipe is for [...]

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We’ve talked before about the quinoa, one of the best foods in the world due its nutritional value. This time we’ll use it to prepare a very good –and simple- cake. Remember to wash the quinoa well, rubbing it in your hands. You must change the water until it gets clear. Then we boil the [...]

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This is an old recipe from our grannies, made to fight against cold in winter. The original recipe calls to prepare it with sugar lumps. The granny recommends to prepare the vino macerado halfway to the autumn, previous to the winter’s arrival. This recipe is for 4 people.

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Yes, the name is similar, but this recipe is totatlly different to the stuffed potatoes recipe: you wont have to knead the press potatoes, but make them a hole to fill it with a delicious stuffing. This is a traditional but very simple recipe, enough for 6 people. Enjoy it.

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