I was travelling from Guatemala to Canada last week and wasn’t able to cook this recipe for publication on Thursday, but the recipe looked so interesting and received so many great comments (plus I love fish and am now in the land of fresh fish)that I decided to make it for Mom and I after […]

I probably would not have chosen to make this recipe myself … mostly because E. doesn’t like his food too hot and finds fruit with meat a little weird. However, I was glad to see it come up as the weekly Craving Ellie in My Belly recipe so I would have the excuse to try […]

Once I start seeing the signs of the jungle summer, I know that mangoes are on their way. And when mango season hits the jungle, there is no mistaking it!!

Banana Jam seemed like a great way to preserve a few more of the bananas, and I when i ran across this recipe, it sounded perfect.

In December of this past year, volunteer Dana Machovek of Alberta, Canada, donated a Sun Oven to Project Ix-canaan with the understanding that we would be able to use it to demonstrate solar cooking and run workshops in the village to build-your-own solar oven. Since we are now in the hot season, and we are […]

This is the first time I have participated in a “Craving Ellie in My Belly” event. I’m not sure how I heard about it, and I have never heard of Ellie Krieger or her cookbook before, but I really like the idea of creating one of her recipes each week along with several other food […]

I’ve bought banana chips many times when living in North America, but have never tried drying them out myself. Since I had such a huge volume of excellent bananas, I decided to give it a try.

Summertime in the jungle is the time for fruit. They are all delicious and exotic, like the Chico Zapote fruit, which has always been one of my favorites.

The first thing I wanted to do with these incredibly perfect bananas was to try a new dessert. There must be a zillion dessert recipes that you can make with bananas, but a couple of months ago a recipe for Banoffee Pie caught my attention. I had never heard of it before, so had to […]

It seems like just yesterday that we harvested our first racim of bananas from the palm tree in our back yard, and here already is the second. We cut the racim just as the first of the bottom bananas were ripening, and hung it in our dining area. Before I knew it, I was hearing […]

I’ve always loved a good fettucini with white clam sauce, but I’ve never been able to find clams here in Peten, so decided the other day to make a similar dish with chicken and sweet red peppers.

One of the foods that I have missed a lot since living here in the jungle is a good whole grain cereal to eat for breakfast. Since the closest thing I can find in the local stores is oatmeal or cream of wheat, I decided long ago that the only way to solve this lack […]

I have wanted one of these Immersion Blenders for ages. It looks so much easier to use than a blender, especially since you can take the blender to the food, rather than putting the food in the blender. I finally found the excuse to buy an Immersion Blender when I began learning soap making and […]

I remember that I used to own a crock pot many many years ago when they were in vogue. I can’t remember that I used it very often, probably because cooking in a crock pot requires foresight and planning, and I’ve always been a “last minute” kinda cook. I also don’t remember being too impressed […]

This almost colorless honey is from the Doncella Bees (as the local people call them) … a type of jungle stingless honey bee that produces this light, lemony sweet honey that is prized amongst the jungle people as an antibiotic as well as a lung curative, a cure for eye problems and a general overall […]

One of the great food advantages of living in the middle of the rainforest is the ready supply of inexpensive raw delicious honey. I love the fact that this honey comes straight from the hive to a recycled bottle. The color can vary quite substantially depending on the location where it was produced and the […]