Archive for the ‘Americas’ Category
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Vegetable medley
Thursday, August 18th, 2011
If you’re a frequent visitor to this blog, you already know that we LOVE vegetables. We eat them 7 out of 7 days . Here’s a colorful and tasty vegetable side dish that will be a pleasure to look at and eat! You can use fresh vegetables, but I usually get the frozen kind. Not [...]
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Mexican turkey rice casserole
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011
Lately I have been experimenting a lot with turkey, trying original recipes (besides the traditional stuffed turkey for Thanksgiving), but also using common recipes and substituting the meat. In this recipe I substituted ground beef with turkey for a healthier alternative, and it became a favorite of my family and friends. Unfortunately I forgot to [...]
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Cookbook review: Chilean cuisine
Wednesday, May 11th, 2011
Cooking is a language to express the human culture… I have not posted for months, but not because I haven’t been cooking. On the contrary, I have been cooking and experimenting a lot! I have so many recipes to share, but wanting and doing something are two different things. My time has been gobled up [...]
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Mushroom chicken with noodles (Chinese)
Thursday, January 27th, 2011
Brown chicken with mushrooms and chinese noodles, served on steamed rice… another one of my favorite dishes. My Mom would always cook something special for our birthday and this was on my list of favorites. Mushroom chicken with chinese noodles 1 lb chicken, cut up 1 lb mushroom, sliced 1 pk beanthread or rice noodles [...]
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Saté or Satay
Tuesday, October 19th, 2010
Chicken or beef saté is a very popular Indonesian snack or appetizer, which can also be used to “dress up” a Bami or Nasi Goreng dish. Meat chuncks are marinated in a (warm) marinade of several spices that include ground coriander and cumin seeds. I usually prepare the marinade a day ahead, and skewer the [...]
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Cajun red beans and rice
Friday, September 17th, 2010
As promised, here’s a recipe of Cajun beans and rice I really like. It’s very similar to our Bruine Bonen (Surinamese beans & rice) and the big difference is in the andouille sausage. The dry beans should be soaked overnight, unless you’re using a pressure cooker or slowcooker. The pressure cooker will significantly cut the [...]
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Bruine bonen met rijst (beans & rice)
Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010
Also called “B.B. met R” which is the Dutch abbreviation for “Bruine Bonen met Rijst” (Brown/Kidney Beans with Rice). The closest thing to this Surinamese national dish I have had in the States, is the Cajun “Beans and Rice,” with Andouille (Cajun sausage) and ground meat (recipe coming soon). You could add these too, but if you want the [...]
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Visiting Domburg warungs
Monday, January 18th, 2010
Happy New Year everyone! About time I added a blogpost! Can’t believe it took me almost 3 weeks to adjust and get back into my normal routine. When we came back we went from 80 tropical to 28 frigid degrees Fahrenheit and combined with jetlag it was AWFUL! Since then it even dipped into the [...]
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Baka Bana (Javanese plantain fritters)
Thursday, November 12th, 2009
Baka bana is Surinamese for baked (fried) bananas (plantains) and much easier to remember than the Javanese name Pisang Goreng. Pisang = banana, and Goreng = cooked or fried. We call plantains bananas, which is a bit confusing in English as the banana is the type that does not require cooking. Plantains should be cooked [...]
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Empanadas Argentinas
Sunday, October 11th, 2009
The Chilean empanada recipe I posted last year generated a lot of interest on this blog which tells me that people like empanadas. I would like to share one from Argentina that I received from Mariana. There are many varieties and the Argentinian empanada usually has olives, sweet paprika (bellpeppers) and raisins, however, since Mariana [...]
