Years ago I worked for the French Music Office and one of the artists we worked with was Cape Verdian singer Cesária Évora. She must have been signed to a francophone record company as those were the only artists we worked with. She recorded in France and was even knighted by the French Legion of […]
Ecuadorian Chicken – Seco de pollo https://www.laylita.com/recipes/seco-de-pollo-ecuatoriano/. This was a very tasty dish. We had lots of chicken in the house so I was trying to find something to make to go with it, then stumbled onto Seco de Pollo which seems to be an ecuadorian staple, like meatloaf in the states…but tastier. It is made […]
Machboos, the national dish from Bahrain. It was so tasty. Took a while to make, and had to get a few ingredients but we will definitely been making it again. We all loved it. If you make it, read through the full recipe ahead of time. Make the spice mix ahead of time. Takes about […]
Last night was Belize! We made rice and beans with coconut milk. It was ok – glad to have tasted it, but it will probably not be on my list of things to remake. The Bengali rice was definitely superior. Recipe source: Belizian Coconut Rice and Beans
So tonight was Brazil!!!! Shout out to my dear friend Luiza Kosminsky Scourred a bunch of Brazillian sites trying to figure out what sumptuous brazillian dish I could make that my non-red meat eating husband would eat and stumbled upon Moqueca Bajana, a fish stew. We all LOVED it. In fact, Scott, who is not […]
C is for China. We had planned to start higher up in the C’s but need to do a bit of defrosting etc before we can delve in. Yesterday was the hmmm what do we have in the house and what will Scott eat. I settled on a mango and chicken recipe. Scott and Eva […]
Our Colombian adventure was not only fabulous (all of us enjoyed it) but it was so good that it made it to our top 10! We had not planned to do Colombia until a bit later, but I had some defrosted chicken in the fridge so I looked up Colombian chicken recipes and stumbled upon […]