I realized shortly after arriving at Mom’s place that I have never learned to make pie crust! Mom is an incredible pie maker and has filled my life with fantastic pies made from a variety of fantastic fillings like apple (always Dad’s favorite with a slab of old cheddar cheese), berry (throughout my growing years […]
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Winter Breakfast
I’ve found ways around most of the ingredient shortages here in the jungle, but I still haven’t found a suitable substitute for my favorite Canadian winter breakfast … a cooked multi-grain cereal sprinkled with some wholesome whole grain crunchy cereal and topped with vanilla flavored rice milk. If you can eat bananas, they would make […]
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Ramon Bread
Since I had brought several pounds of ramon flour with me to introduce it to fellow Canadian cooks, one of the first things I decided to bake at Mom’s place was ramon bread.
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Kathleen’s Kitchen-Sink Pasta
I’ve just returned from a month in New Brunswick, Canada, where I was visiting with Mom and celebrating her 80th birthday with her. During the month, I made a point of learning several recipes that captured my attention when they were served. The first that I am going to blog about was prepared and served […]
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More Banana Desserts
I couldn’t decide which of these luscious banana desserts to make … however, since I am experiencing an overabundance of bananas, I decided I was in a perfect position to just go ahead and make them both! They are called (from left), Baked Banana Crumble and Banana Crisp (Platanitos Horneados).
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About Cookbooks and Nostalgia
“As anthropologist Arjun Appadurai concluded in an article on cookbooks in contemporary India, “cookbooks appear to belong to the literature of exile, of nostalgia and loss.” Our recipes represent our often unsuccessful attempts to relive the past, to recover lost comforts or reclaim a forgotten heritage. We take them with us into foreign lands. We […]
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Bananas Foster Crunch Cake
I seldom buy, eat or cook with bananas in our home because of their high sugar content, but it became necessary this week for me to make allowances and find some recipes for dishes that we could share with friends and neighbors and that would use bananas. This Bananas Foster Crunch Cake caught my eye […]
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Blackberry Chipotle Chicken Wings
These were about the yummiest chicken wings I have ever cooked! The sauce called for two ingredients that I have never cooked with … balsamic vinegar (which is available in the new Maxi-Bodega in Santa Elena) and chipotle chiles in adobo sauce (that I hadn’t even heard of until recently so I went looking for […]
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Fiambre for Day of the Dead
I’m way behind on my posts since I have been waiting to have the time to implement this new “Read More” feature (Expandable Post with Peekaboo View). I have been leery of poking about in the inner workings of my blog, but I noticed and liked this feature on Meeta’s Blog (www.whatsforlunchhoney.blogspot.com) and when I […]
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Canadian Thanksgiving
I completely forgot about Thanksgiving this year. Fortunately, where food is concerned, I have some kind of “inner guidance system”. I awoke on Thanksgiving morning with a craving for stuffing. The craving was so strong that I started making up a batch while cooking our breakfast, stuffed a whole chicken, that I just happened to […]
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Bollitos
Rose and Beberly are back for another quarterly, 2-week visit to work with the women’s group, and this time they have been welcomed with a traditional luncheon of Bollitos. I’ve never made them myself … but I’ve been to lots of events where they have been served.
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Potato Salad
I haven’t made a potato salad for years, and I’m not sure why, since the ingredients are all readily available here. When I decided to serve hamburgers the other day, it seemed like a natural accompaniment. The only alteration I made from the usual potato salad recipe was to use a mixture of mayonaise with […]
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Chicken Noodle Soup
Chicken Noodle Soup is a dish that I grew up with, and never felt the need to look further than Campbell’s until moving to the jungle, where it quickly became necessary to figure out how to create it from scratch. Along the way, I discovered this fantastic Guatemalan custom of adding half a fresh avocado […]
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Roasted Tomato Salsa
For most of my cooking life, if I have needed tomatoes in any form for a recipe, I would purchase them canned … canned tomatoes, canned tomato paste, canned tomato juice, canned tomato sauce … if I bought fresh tomatoes, it was to eat them fresh in a salad or sandwich.
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Aloo Paratha
Here is another dish that caught my eye some time ago … a stuffed bread called Aloo Paratha. I had to improvise a bit in the recipe, which called for Ginger Paste (I used finely chopped ginger) and Green Chili Paste (I used 1/2 of a jalapeno pepper, finely chopped). The end result, which also […]
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White Chili with Chicken
This is a dish that I had made before, but didn’t get to take photos before it disappeared. The recipe called for chicken broth, but we can’t buy it here, so when I deboned the chicken breasts, I saved the bones and put them in on top of the beans and spices to flavor the […]
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Chicken Satay
Satays are the other popular barbecue food in the e-zines, and I’ve just been waiting the right moment to try out a couple of recipes that I came across for the Satay Marinade and the Peanut Dipping Sauce. I made it all up yesterday, and left the chicken strips marinating for the night, then, when […]
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Most Popular Petenero Lunch
This is the lunch that was served by the Women’s Group for the construction workers who were pouring cement for the floor in their new building (see www.ixcanaan.blogspot.com for more on this). This type of lunch is, without question, the most popular lunch amongst the people who live in this area. It is made up […]
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