Every once in a while, I come across a recipe from my early years of cooking (when I was cooking for kids) that catches my eye and makes my mouth water to remember. Such was the case when I was visiting with Mom in June. My sister-in-law and I were looking at Mom’s cookbooks, which […]
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Jul 16
CEiMB: Aromatic Noodles With Lime Peanut Sauce
I was really looking forward to getting back into my weekly “Ellie” recipe, since I have fallen so far behind these last weeks, what with visiting in Canada, followed up by running a Solar Oven Workshop right after returning to the jungle. However, between the complications of changing from an old PC desktop to a […]
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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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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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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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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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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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Hungarian Goulash
This dish was a “first” in two ways … the first time that I have ever made noodles of any kind … and the first time that I have eaten Hungarian Goulash. I had read and printed this recipe out a couple of months ago, but everything didn’t “come together” until today. It was a […]
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