Tag: recipe
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Making Sushi
Out of the blue one afternoon on gchat Javier tells me that he wants to try to make sushi. I’m telling you, 100% of the projects we feature on here start with Javier getting a whim to do something, looking up videos on youtube on how to do it, and then going through with it. […]
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Home-made Pizza!
A few weeks ago I was craving pizza. We normally buy the materials to make our own pizza, including the dough, from Trader Joes. Unfortunately the night I decided to make the pizza, the dough expiration date was about a week past and even though I thought about eating it anyways, I preferred to play […]
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Thanksgiving Javi Style Mashed Potatoes
For a couple of years now I have been assigned to mashed potato duty at Thanksgiving. I am not sure why I was asked to make them in the first place since honestly I don’t have a recipe to make them. I guess I’m an expert now since the family keeps asking me to make […]
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Corn bread adventure
Cornbread was something completely unknown to me before moving to the States. It never sounded very tasty or appetizing (much like meatloaf). Bread made with corn?…it just did not click for me until I tried it. With thanksgiving coming up I decided to go for a new adventure and try to make some cornbread. I […]
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Rodriguez Fajitas!
There’s nothing all that special about these that make them “Rodriguez fajitas” except that the peppers come from our lovely (now potted) bell pepper plants! Javi and I needed a new way to fix up our chicken – the whole baked chicken thing was great for the first 3 months after we discovered our favorite […]
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Making Sun Dried Tomatoes
Our cherry tomato plant is by far the most prolific in our garden. Every day we harvest at least a cup of cherry tomatoes and with only one tomato eater at home we needed to figure something out so those little guys wouldn’t go to waste. We thought about canning but we wouldn’t eat them…Leslie […]
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Recipe for Chilean Pebre
Our cherry tomato plant has been so productive for us this summer that we haven’t been able to keep up with the harvest. I’m not a big tomato eater when it comes to just eating a plain tomato (as opposed to, say, tomato soup or salsa) and cherry tomatoes are usually for salads. We were taking them […]
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Eat your beets!
Since I was a kid beets have called my attention – it’s probably because my mom made them so tasty, but also because of the deep purple color they have and their sweet flavor that mixes perfectly with a lemon, olive oil, and salt dressing. Since I moved to the U.S. from Chile the only […]
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Quick chicken recipe! / Facil pollo al horno!
Since we showed some pictures of some of our meals, we wanted to also share our ways of cooking some foods. We don’t have time (and most of the time the energy) to make elaborate meals so in our kitchen the motto is: The simpler the better! Ya que les mostramos algunas fotos de algunas […]
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Easy guacamole recipe that will impress your guests!
When it comes to certain foods, I am very particular about the way they are prepared. One of these foods is the avocado. I love avocados, I could eat them every day (which I do) and if I were ever in a situation where I had to pick one thing to eat for the rest […]
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Seafood soup
Since the weather has been acting up (it is amazingly warm in January), I was afraid that “soup weather” would go away before I could try out a few more recipes! I have been craving “caldillo de marisco” for a long long time (caldillo is a seafood soup very popular in Chile) so I thought […]
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Sick day smoothie
Uggggggh I’m sick. It started coming on on Monday night, by Tuesday I was definitely under the weather but I thought it was a little cold so I wasn’t too worried about it. On Wednesday morning I woke up and my throat felt like it was on fire…I had to brace myself every time I […]
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Pastel de Choclo
Paula spoils us when she visits us in Nashville. Yesterday she made us a typical Chilean dish called pastel de choclo – I think the closest translation would be corn casserole. It’s typical to Chile the way grits are typical in the U.S. south – a simple but delicious corn staple. The ingredients (for 10 […]
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food, recipes and more food!
Our house has turned into our very own pasteleria (bakery)! Cora baked 13 loaves of her Christmas bread (pan de pascua) and it smells heavenly, I threw together some no-bake chocolate oatmeal cookies (thanks to Diane’s recipe) and Meri made a huge pot of cola de mono (monkey tail), a Chilean holiday drink that tastes […]
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HaviAir’s Chicken Consommé
Now that the cold weather has officially arrived in Middle Tennessee (not welcome by the way…it sucks) I felt the need for a good soup. To me a good cold weather soup needs a tasty broth, some veggies and some kind of meat. That is my favorite kind of soup, and Cazuela is the best […]
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Artichokes – Alcachofas!
One of my favorite foods is artichokes. Here in the states they seem to be a very gourmet kind of food, but growing up I remember eating a lot of them (my mom knew I loved them so she spoiled me a little bit due to my skinny frame hahahah). I have seen artichokes here […]
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