Vegetable

Ensalada Rusa (Russian Salad)

57 comments January 15, 2010

Ensalada Rusa or Russian Salad is a popular dish in Colombia and other Latin American countries. I remember eating this delicious potato salad as a side dish to Pernil de Cerdo (Roasted Pork Leg or Ham), at almost every party my family ever had in Colombia. My husband hates potato salad, so I never made [...]

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Pasta with shrimp and Spinach

15 comments November 24, 2009

Guest posting today and sharing her delicious recipe is Rebecca  from “Chow and Chatter”. Rebecca has a wonderful blog filled with healthy and delicious recipes. ~Erica I am thrilled and honored to do a guest post for Erica, I adore her blog and its one of the first one’s I first started to follow I [...]

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Roasted Vegetables Frittata

19 comments November 12, 2009

Frittata is a deliciously simple dish when cooked with your favorite ingredients. You can experiment with many types of vegetables depending on the season or just stick with your favorites. My husband enjoyed this roasted vegetables frittata very much and said that it was absolutely delicious! This also makes for a great vegetarian dish.

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Meatball and Rice Soup (Sopa de Arroz con Albóndigas)

24 comments November 10, 2009

My grandmother’s meatball and rice soup is one of my favorite soups and I come to crave it every now and then. So this past Tuesday, I was very happy to have everything on hand to make it. Here’s Mamita’s recipe. I hope you enjoy even half as much as I do.

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Roasted Vegetables Cake Roll ( Rollo de Vegetales)

17 comments October 27, 2009

Do you remember the dulce de leche and coconut roll I made last week? Well, if you don’t, it’s ok, here’s the recipe. After I made the roll, I could not stop thinking about making a variation of it. However, I wanted to be sure that my vegetarian husband could eat it, so that is [...]

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Creamy Vegetable Soup (Crema de Verduras)

7 comments October 16, 2009

This soup was inspired by mom’s sopa de verduras. As a little girl, I was a very finicky eater and that was at a time when grandmothers thought that if you weren’t a little fat, you weren’t healthy . So, my mom and grandmother did everything they could to get me to eat. My mom [...]

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Creamy Asparagus Orzo

13 comments October 5, 2009

I love risotto but sometimes I don’t have the patience to stand in front of the stove stirring for such a long time, as is required, which is why I created this recipe. This week I was craving asparagus risotto, but I was too hungry to wait for a risotto to be cooked, so I [...]

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