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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Posted in Entrees & Sandwichs, Lamb on Nov 7th, 2008
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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Posted in Entrees & Sandwichs, Potatoes on Nov 3rd, 2008
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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In the days of our grannies, the shrimps from the Rimac river were famous due its look and good size. Some chronicles tell us that the last time they were caught was in 1950. After that years, the pollution has finished with all them, but luckily, we still have the classic recipe to prepare them. [...]
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There’s a traditional way to prepare causa, and we have already seen it. But we also need time for our work schedules, meetings, family and friends. If we can’t find a moment to prepare it in the old way, we can do it in a modern way: using instant mashed potatoes. Follow this recipe and [...]
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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 Perú”) in the International Year of the Potato. [...]
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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 [...]
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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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The cauliflower is an excellent vegetable. Its main component is the water, so it has a little quantity of calories, carbohydrates, proteins and fats. But it a good source of fiber, vitamin B6 and B5, folic acid and minerals. This is an old and traditional peruvian recipe (and, in this case, for 8 people). [...]
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