A few short years ago, I would never have believed that I would find the combination of fluffy scrambled eggs, boiled black beans and stewed platanos, all with a sprinkle of my favorite hot sauce, and served with steaming hot tortillas (not pictured) to be so downright delicious. Of course, these boiled black beans are […]
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Chicken with Loroco in Cream Sauce
Bit by bit, I’m starting to learn more about traditional Guatemalan cuisine. This dish is an excellent example. It seems like such a basic dish, but the combination of Loroco and cream makes it outstanding! I have never experienced a flavor like it!
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Oil of Oregano
One of my neighbors gave me a slip of oregano a few months ago, and it has grown wilder than my wildest expectations!
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Red Pitaya, A Fruit of the Rainforest
Red Pitaya, also called Dragonfruit, is a type of cactus that grows, vine-like, high in the trees of the rainforest. It is chock full of vitamins, minerals and fibre.
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El Pez Dorado: A Restaurant Review
El Pez Dorado was named and decorated after these bright-eyed goldfish swimming in an aquarium just inside the door.
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Totally Addictive Vegetable Sandwiches
This is my favorite sandwich of the month. Or of the year. I usually use more or less the same ingredients each time, but the option of adding just about any other vegetable you want is always there.
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Verdolaga: A Natural Resource
About a week after moving into this neighborhood, I saw one of the neighbors returning to her home from her consult at the clinic and searching diligently along the sides of the path while she walked. As I watched, she reached down and started pulling greens from the ground. I hurried over as she was […]
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Empanadas de Aselgar
The Mango Sauce from the Stuffed Chicken recipe inspired these Empanadas de Aselgar. Since April, when I learned to make pie crust, I have made a point of keeping a zip-lock baggie in the refrigerator with enough crust for a full pie just in case of an emergency craving for something in crust. (Hasn’t that […]
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Stuffed Chicken with Mango Guacamole
Access to abundant inexpensive mangoes is as good a reason to live in the jungle as any! I first saw this recipe in Ben’s “What’s Cooking” Blog and saved it to adapt to my tastes and ingredient availability.
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Italian-American Meatballs
The other night I had a pound of fresh ground beef in the refrigerator and a yen for spaghetti and meatballs, so I started hunting through my recipe file for a meatball recipe that sounded right. Once again, a recipe from The Chef from World Wide Recipes came to my attention (he puts out an […]
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Indian Ground Beef and Potatoes (Keema Alu)
Many many years ago, when John and I were still in university and meeting other students from all over the world, we were invited to dinner at a good friend’s house, and his roomate had cooked up this fantastic curry of ground beef and potatoes. I was overwhelmed by the excellent curry flavor that was […]
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Baked Hash ‘n Eggs
I brought a couple of small cans of corned beef hash back from Canada with me for just this type of dish. I didn’t follow a particular recipe … I just combined all the ingredients of the basic ‘corned beef hash ‘n eggs’ breakfast.
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Albondigas de Gallina
I had this dish for the first time when we went to visit Guatemalan friends the other day. Doris made the dish the way her grandmother always did, by using the meat of a freshly killed patio hen. I was thrilled when she offered to write down the recipe for me.
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Fajita Spiced Chicken
This is one of my favorite fast meals to prepare. One can create a full meal from freezer to table in less than 30 minutes.
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Ritz Cracker Squares
This was another recipe that I came back with from my Canada trip. A fast and easy dessert … and really really yummy!
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From Garden to Table; Harvard Beet
My Beet … becomes Harvard Beets Even though gardening has not been one of my successes, I keep at it and if its true that persistence pays off, then I will eventually fill my mostly empty garden beds with a bounty of lush organic vegetables. The temperatures here in the rain forest are great for […]
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Meat Pie
The natural next step after learning to bake Mom’s pie crust, and feasting on Mom’s roast beef was to combine the two and make a meat pie. I still had lots of pie crust left, and a big chunk of roast beef left over from Sunday dinner.
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Mom’s Marinated Roast Beef
Roast Beef was one of those foods that was always served on Sundays in our home, with the leftovers served in various creative ways over the following week. On the weekend that Herb and Marg joined us, Mom picked up a roast beef so that we could enjoy this family tradition together.
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