Hola and Welcome to My Colombian Recipes. I hope you enjoy your visit!
My name is Erica and I was born and raised in Medellin, Colombia. I moved to the United States in 2000. I live in Connecticut with my husband and our two boys. I am not a professional chef however. My educational background is in Tourism and Hotel Management and Marketing. Although Spanish is my first language, this site is written in English, so please excuse any grammatical errors…I do my best.
I published my first cookbook “I Cook Latin Food: The Best Recipes from 5 Popular Hispanic Cooking Blogs (Spanish Edition)” in 2021 with Penguin Random House.
Growing up in Colombia, cooking was always important in our family. We gathered at mamita’s house every weekend where she cooked traditional Colombian dishes that have remained family favorites years later.
For more facts about me click here.
About the blog
This blog was created in February 2009 and was inspired by my maternal grandmother, who was a very important person in my life and an amazing traditional Colombian cook. I never saw Mamita cooking from a recipe. She made dinner from whatever ingredients she found in the kitchen. My hope is that people from other countries discover Colombian food and learn more about our culture and traditions. Cooking traditional Colombian food connects me to my culture and allows me to share my heritage with my American family.
My recipes are not limited to traditional Colombian food. I have many other recipes for dishes representing other countries that I enjoy cooking for my family and friends, which I will also share with you. The sources of most of my recipes are my family, friends and my own creations and experiments, but if I cook a dish from a magazine, cookbook or TV show, I will list the source. All of the pictures and writing are done by me. The webmaster of My Colombian Recipes is my husband, who doesn’t get a lot credit, but he handles all the technical stuff for the site.
Comments and e-mails
I appreciate all of your comments, feedback and e-mails. I read every single one of them! I am not always able to reply to them all but I will do my best to answer your questions as quickly as possible. Although I appreciate constructive criticism, rude comments will be deleted and not published. Remember, you can also subscribe to My Colombian Recipes by email or feed reader and never miss a post! Thank you for visiting.
This site is also available in Spanish (en español en este enlance)
Anna
I am so happy to have found this site!! I lived in Santander for a year and fell in love with all things Colombian... one of the things I miss the most is the food.... I look forward to preparing many of your recipes!!!
Erica
Hi Anna, Thank you so much for the lovely comment!
Erica
Hi Kay,
Thank you very much for your nice comment!
jackie
rcastellanos@keiseruniversity(dot)edu
this is our professor's e-mail, he has a family member in the hospital with a Almost heart attack. Instead of the usual sorry hope your relative gets better I thought it would be a lot nicer if I could locate some Heart Healthy receipes from the columbian culture for him to pass on to his family member.
Anonymous
Auténtica receta
Kay Little
I am so excited to find your blog...I lived in Columbia when I was a little girl and I enjoyed eating the food so much... We had a lady come in an cooked for us every day. Blessings, Kay
Maria
Todas las recetas estan para lamberse los dedos. que rico ser Colombiano. y disfrutar de tanta variedad,
Erica
Hola Maria
Muchas Gracias por tu lindo mensaje!
Erica
Gracias Dorita,
Rico que te guste el blog!!!
Dorita
Felicitaciones, que pagina tan buena.... me encanta !!! la encontre por casualidad... y aqui me quedo !! jeje
heidileon
hola Erica,
Solo quiero decirte: muchas felicidades por tu blog, es el primero que encuentro sobre cocina Colombiana de la cual no se mucho (si, lo se, que pena). Sigue adelante, las recetas se ven muy muy autenticas.
Cindy
Hola!
My husband and I adopted our beautiful children, as infants, from Bucaramanga and Cali; they are now 20 and 17 years old. I am excited about finding your website and am anxious to try the recipes; they bring back memories of the delicious meals we ate while in Colombia! Gracias!
Erica
Hi Cindy,
Thank you for visiting my blog and for the nice comment!
juliana
Hola Erica, felicitaciones en tu web.Me encontre con Ana ayer y me conto. Todo se ve muy rico, pronto comenzare a usarlas.
Erica
Gracias Juliana!
Luz Adriana
Hola Erica, me encantan tus recetas y las comparto. El ajiaco y el arroz con pollo son especialmente deliciosos. Soy de Medellín y vivo en California. Una pregunta, sabes cómo se conoce en inglés a la arracacha,?
Ana Karen
¿Cómo se llama la arracacha en Estados Unidos?
The arracacia is another one of our products that generates a lot of starch; it is also known as arracache, criollo celery (in northern Colombia it is known as criollo celery), arracacha, virraca, white carrot, or manioc sauce.
Erica
Gracias Anny....
Natalia
Hola amiga estoy muy feliz de leer todas tus recetas...Alex ya a puesto en pracrica algunas de tus recetas y no le salen tan masl...amiga te pido un favor si tienes la receta de torta negra publicala estoy loca por comerla y no tengo ni idea de cuales con los ongredientes..
Bueno amiga te felicito y te envio un abrazote desde madrid.
Erica
Gracias Natty...Mi mamá tiene la mejor receta para la torta negra, pronto la publico.
Anonymous
See Tessa’s
Esper c Sáenz
El ajo, pimentón, pimienta son invaluables en recetas de Colombia, funcionan en el flujo sanguíneo, limpia desintoxica y dan un aroma especial; pimenton, achiote, tomate, zanahoria, auyama dan un toque de color al sancocho y mejora la visión.
Si aplicas unas hojas de cilantro cimarrón ó sierra (puede retirarlas antes de emplatar), quedará genial, no dude en hacerlo
Es de anotar en la costa emplean plátano pinton entre amarillo y verde, ñame, una variedad de yuca, al no haber plátano puede sustituir por guineo (especial para diabéticos), popoche, banana verde, igualmente queda rico con todo el amor de quién prepara a sus comensales (consumidores).
ANNY
HOLA AMIGA. FELICITACIONES POR TU SITIO. CREO QUE LO NECESITARE MUCHO PUES ESTOY UN POCO ENCARTADA CON MI NUEVA LABOR DE AMA DE CASA PUES NO SE COCINAR MUCHO, ME DEFIENDO PERO ESTAS RECETAS ESTAN SUPER RICAS.....
TE DESEO LO MEJOR.
Erica
Hola Monica,
Muchas Gracias por visitar mi blog.....Te prometo que en la proxima visita a Colombia te hago una de mis recetas favoritas 🙂
Voy a publicar algunas recetas para que las hagas con Alejandra y me cuentas como te fue....
Un Abrazo.
Erica.
Paul
Hola Erica,
Soy canadiense, pero conozco este maravilloso país que Colombia y con gente muy amable y una comida muy sana y deliciosa, me gustó leer tu receta y a veces preparar.
Bravo para tú Muy Interesante trabajo , un Abrazo, Paul
Monia
Hi Erika... tu sitio esta super!!! Porque nunca cocinaste nada para mi??? Espero que cuando vengas a Colombia lo hagas!!! Gracias por compartir tus recetas. Tienes cositas faciles de hacer con niños??? yo no soy muy buena pero Alejandra seguira los pasos de su tia Erika. Te mando un abrazo, cuidate. TQM. Monica Gonzalez.
camila
hi! i was also born in colombia! my name is maria-camila and i lived in cali till i was 5 and now im 12 years old! well im glad ur talking abount colombia! im coco colombian!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mo ica
Hola Erika, buenas tardes, soy Colombiana también, me encantan tus recetas, podrías decirme para cuantos comensales es la receta de cazuela de mariscos. Gracias
Anonymous
Gracias Érica, por compartir las recetas de nuestra deliciosa comida colombiana. Me encantan y me han servido mucho.
Soy colombiana también y vivo en California. FELIZ 2024.
Un abrazo
Miryam Castro ❣️
Nancy Kokkinopoulos
Hola me gustaria probar y hacer esta receta no vivo en Colombia pero soy Colombiana.
Queria preguntarte me trajeron bocadillos veleños pero se endurecieton, que puedo hacer para ablandarlos y utilizarlos para
el rescón. Muchas gracias.
Anonymous
Para 8 personas adults
Linda miranda
Hi what is the name of the cheese eaten with the guava paste? I was raised in a Cuban/Puerto Rican/Chilean household
Erica Dinho
Queso Blanco
Anonymous
For parties queso de papa
Alex W.
Erica, thank you for sharing your recipes, I accidently came across your site. I was born in NJ but had the opportunity to live in Armenia, Quindio for 2 years when I was a teenager. My father is from Medellin and my my mom from Bogota. I married a German and our two daughters love Abuelita's cooking. I am going to try a few recipes and see if I can surprise my mom and cousins with a few traditional plates *for the holidays coming up. I will certainly keep you posted if I fail horribly (). Gracias and know I appreciate you! Alexandra
Laurie Hincapie
I’m trying to write a comment and I can’t figure out how because it won’t allow me to so that’s why I’m posting on this ladies post. I’m an American that married a Colombian, he’s from Manizales. I just wanna let you know how much you have helped me to learn to put the Colombian dishes that he likes. I’m grateful for you. Thank you so much.