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)
Sue
Buenos dias, Erica!
I met the most wonderful man from Colombia after my husband died, and we have since become inseparable. He has cooked many delicious meals for me and my children, but I am looking for inspiration so I can cook Colombian food for him here in the Midwest. We have tried making bunuelos and pandebonos from scratch, but just doesn't taste the way he remembers. We will keep trying through your blog. Thanks so much for your recipes - it's so much fun to feel more connected to his culture - especially through food!
Erica
Thank you all for the wonderful comments! I truly appreciate them 😉
Sandi
Hi Erica,
Your roast chicken recipe looks great and I will be making it tomorrow. I will let you know how it comes out.
Have a great day,
Sandi
Inlovewithacolombian
Hi Erica!
Thank you so much for the wonderful colombian recipes. Whenever my Colombian boyfriend feels homesick we choose a recipe from your site. What initially led me to your site, was the two of us searching for an Arepas recipes. One of your recipes came closest to the Arepas that he ate. Thanks so much! Keep up the hard work!
Maria Teresa
Hola Erica,
Que Chevere me siento muy orgullosa de ti, personas como tu engrandecen el nombre de nuestro pais, apesar de nuestros problemas, pero bueno para adelante.
Erica son de Cali y me encantaria saber como preparar la avena, como la hacian nuestras abuelas.
Gracias
Erica
Maria Teresa- La receta de avena esta en la lista de recetas.
Adam
Hi Erica,
I have my own site (blog) about Colombia where I try to teach foreigners that Colombia has *a lot* to offer in terms of natural beauty and friendly, warm people. I also have a links page so I will be adding your site there!
Abrazos
- Adam
Eyes On Colombia
Erica
Adam- Thank you so much! I will check your site 🙂
Erica
Thank you everyone for the comments!
Tina
My boyfriend is from Colombia, I had the opportunity to visit Colombia for a month, but still did not learn how to cook. I am a bad cook, but I want to learn how to cook Colombian food for him. He is a cook, so I want to be able to cook his favourite foods as good as he does to surprise him.
Will
Everything (except the fish, personal dislike to all fishy things) looks absolutely delicious. I was born in Bogota and moved to US @ 4yrs old. My mom still cooks many typical dishes and she will surely enjoy your website. I love platano frito and patacon, the Paisa dish is great if one is not busy the rest of the day.
Keep up the good work.
WF
Tewksbury, MA
Savilac
Erika:
Todo se ve delicioso, que idea tan increible de poner todas estas recetas aqui, me voy directo a la cocina a ver que preparo de estas recetas.
Buena Suerte.
S Avila
Erica
Diana- Thank you so much for your wonderful comment!!! Makes me really happy to know that people like you are enjoying the site 🙂
Diana Manis
Erica: I just happened to find your website on Google and I love it!!! Thank you so much for sharing all these wonderful Colombian recipes with us. Of course I'm Colombian too and I live in Florida. My husband and all his friends are wonderful cooks. They keep asking me when I'm going to cook for them a good Colombian meal. And of course I'm a young Colombian who didn't do that much cooking back home LOL. This is the only site I've found with the exact and perfect explanations and recipes on how to cook Colombian way. Thanks a bunch and Dios te bendiga y que sigas cosechando éxitos. Good job!!!!
Diana Manis.
Erica
Juani- Gracias por tu comentario. Voy a publicar la receta de Maria Luisa pronto!
Erica
Margarita- Thank you so much for your comment!
juani
hola Erica,
no cocino mucho pero un dia me dio por probar tu receta de los perros calientes (con la salsa de pi~na) y me quedaron deliciosos.
estube buscando en tus recetas y no vi la de la Maria Luisa...haber cuando te animas a hacerla y ense~narnos al resto!
Muchas gracias por compartir tus recetas.
Margarita
I love your website. I'm Colombian as well and lived in Miami, FL for most of my life. I recently moved with my husband to Albany, NY and unfortunately there is only one restaurant in the area that serves Colombian food. i have some recipes from my mother but your website has fine tuned my cooking. Gracias!