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)
Olga
ahh erica, creo que iciste a mi esposo el hombre mas feliz del mundo con tu receta de las empanadas y el aji.
el las ama y aca en donde yo vivo (newcastle, uk) no se encuentra nada de nada.
nunca se casen con un ingles, por que despues que van a colombia no quieren comer nada mas.
Michelle
Erika, tengo que preguntar.......eres de las familiar: Ruiz, Restrepo o Fernandes? Las recetas que tu pones son las mismas de mi familia!
Erica
Hola Michelle,
Mis apellidos de soltera son López Gutiérrez.
Olga Lucia
Hola Erica,
Te felicito por esta pagina, muy util. Hice un simple google para encontrar alguna variedad a la idea del arroz con coco que yo tenia y aparecio tu pagina. Te felicito! esta muy chever, bien organizada y util.
Tengo un programa de Radio, que se llama Latitud, todos los Lunes a las 12 del dia (hora Pacific West) en una radio comunitaria kyrs.org. Te gustaria que te entrevistara? puedes compartir tu historia y algunas recetas.
Si esto te suena escribeme Latitude(at)kyrs(dot)org
ps: Soy Colombiana, de Popayan.
Erica
Hola Olga Lucia, Muchas gracias por tu comentario. Te envio un e-mail mas tarde para que hablemos. 🙂
Erica
Thank you, guys...I appreciate all your comments!
Sandra
Erica -
Thank you so much for making these recipes public. My mother was born in Bogota and has raised me with much of the food you have given recipes for. Much like your grandmother, my mom would make any meals with whatever ingredients we had in the pantry. Calentado was always my favorite!!! Gracias por las recetas!
xo Sandra
Dougy EL Paisa
I was not born in Colombia, pero tengo un corazon MUY antioqueno!!! I was married to a paisa from Medellin. I have visited Medellin 5 times and I truly miss her. I have not been there in 3 years. But I try to be as paisa as I can be. I love to eat Colombian food , and I try to buy products that are from Colombia,( especially Aguardiente Antioqueno 🙂 . Since I can not be there, I try to buy Colombian products so I can help the Colombian people as much as possible.
I love your website and can not wait to try some of the recipes!!
Anonymous
WONDERFUL SITE!
Lucia
Your site is amazing. I love all your Colombian recipes and the International recipes. I made some and they were really good.
Elizabeth
I love your site and all your recipes.
Ana
Hola Erika!!!!!
Me encanta tu pagina, tiene unas recetas espectaculares. Soy una costena de padres Santandereanos que no le gustaba la cocina cuando vivia en Colombia. Ahora me encanta ver los programas, revistas y todo lo que sea de comidas. Extrano mucho la comida nuestra y por eso trato de preparar con las recetas que encuentro.
Porfis si puedes publicar recetas como deditos de queso, diferentes tipos de bollos (ya vi la receta que publicaste de los bollos de yuca), sopa de guandules. higadete, arroz de coco, torta negra (la de los matrimonios), arepas fritas de anis, de huevo, recetas para las fiestas que ya se estan acercando, en fin estare al pendiente, muchas gracias por esta pagina. 🙂
Erica
Ana- Muchas de las recetas que me pides ya estan en el blog....solo tienes que mirara en la lista de recetas. Las demas estoy tabajando en ellas. Gracias por tu lindo comentario y me alegra que te guste la pagina.
Claudia
Hi Erika!!!
Kuddos for this amazing blog. I'm from Colombia as well. I love all your recipies
Paola Westbeek
Hola Erica,
Aqui otra de Medellin! Ahora vivo en Europe, despues de pasar mi niñez en los EU. Gracias por estas recetas! La mamita mia tambien cocinaba muy rico. 🙂
Saludos desde Holanda!
Kie
Hello,
I am getting married in November and my fiance is half Black and half Colombian. He would like to incorporate some Colombian traditions into our wedding. I have searched hi and low and found only three. 1. Candle ceremony 2. coin ceremony 3. serenade ceremony. Are there other ceremonies, if so what are they or where can I find information about them?
Thank you for your help,
Kie
Shawna
Your website is fabulous. I just stumbled upon it and have tried a lot of the recipes. I was born in Colombia but adopted and grew up in the US so I do not have much of a connection to my heritage. My husband and I just adopted our daugher from Colombia so with the help of your website we are bringing Colombia into our home.
Gerardo
I found your blog and I am so happy! It is the best site about Colombian recipes in English. You should write a cookbook. Thank you for all the hard work.
MartaLucia
I love your blog. It is the best site about Colombia food.Thanks.