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How to choose recipes
Cooking your own food is great for saving money and ensuring your meals are as healthy as they can be. Whether you are a seasoned cook or a beginner, it is useful to know how to choose recipes. Choosing a recipe to follow always involves a couple of risks: the risk that the recipe is bad and the risk that you don’t like the dish. There is no guarantee you will be 100% satisfied with a particular recipe, however the more recipes you try, the more you can make educated guesses of whether a new recipe will work for you or not. How to choose recipes 1. Look for a…
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Happy Mother’s Day!
Just a quick note to say Happy Mother’s Day to all those strong, smart, loving, amazing women a.k.a. mums. Special thanks to the two women who influenced me the most when it comes to food and cooking: my mum and her mum. I will never forget watching Peruvian celebrity chef Teresa Ocampo on the TV with my grandma. She also taught me how to make pancakes and how to love offal, thanks to her superb cooking skills. She passed away when I was 9. Mum inspired my interest in trying new recipes and eating out. She is a wonderful and consistent cook, even though she never measures ingredients. I have…
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Recipe: Seafood cau cau
This is another Peruvian dish that features offal, but unlike anticuchos I prefer to stay away from the traditional version and use an alternative protein. The dish is commonly cooked with mondongo (cow’s stomach), which for me and many people is not very fun to eat mainly because of its texture (feels like having a towel in your mouth and has the chewiness of silicone). Its smell and taste is also off-putting for some, you have to cook the thing for at least 3 hours with hierbabuena (a kind of mint) to lessen the offending aromas. Thankfully most recipes are not carved in stone and allow for ingredient substitutions quite…
