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)
Marcela
Hi Erica,
What a great blog. I´m also from Medellin but now I´m living in Australia. I never have cooked before in my life and I have found this blog very helpful (even for someone who has never been and expert in the kitchen )
Thank you very much.
By the way...... I haven´t seen the SOPA DE TORTILLA here, coudl you give me any advice for this recipe.
Anonymous
I am from Colombia. Thank you so much for this site....It is beautiful.
Gabe
Hi Erica,
This is a very nice website. Colombian food looks and seems very tasty and delicous and quite healthy.
Veronica
Hey Erica,
I was born in Colombia but raised here in the United States. where do you live ? do you know of anywhere they teach how to cook better.
Ana
Hola Erica
Estoy encantada con tu blog...Llevo en Francia 5 años y aunque cocinaba mucho en Colombia, entre tanta variedad y tan poco tiempo, dejé de hacerlo.
Aunque se me olvido el ingles, tus recetas me han dado unas ganas locas de recomenzar.....mañana el postre es Maria Luisa!!!
Pd: Los restaurantes colombianos de Paris, acaban de perder dos buenos clientes
Un abrazo
Hannah
Hola Erica - I have searched and searched for true Colombian recipes and have *finally* found your website! I adopted my daughter from Colombia when she was 9 -a girl certainly old enough to know what she loves! She misses empanadas (pork) dearly (as well as many other foods) and will be thrilled to know I've finally found a receipe for them! Finally, my new favorite website, my daughter will be so happy! Thank you for taking the time to share all your recipes, I am so appreciative!
Anonymous
What a wonderful blog about my countrie's food.
Elena
Hi Erica,
I love your site..... My family loves all the dishes I make from this site. Thanks.
Maggie
Erica,
Thank God you thought of this site. I was once married to a Colombiano and learned how to some Colombian meals. I continue to adore the food and recently visited Cartagena for a wedding in 2009 and my God, I had the best grilled red snapper i had ever had in my life!!! Thank you so much for posting your recipes in English as the cookbooks that i have are in Spanish directly from Colombia and some items i cant figure out. Thanks again.
Elann
Hola Erica, I have a BIG problem with your blog.... .there are too many delicious things I want to make right NOW!! I spent two years teaching in Medellín and am missing the food up on Las Palmas. Your aji recipe is mighty fine, as is the hogao. Tomorrow, I am going to make your frijoles (con carne en polvo) y patacones. Now if I could just find the ingredients to make empanadas and ajiaco....
Mil, mil gracias!! Me gusta mucho esta tesoro de recetes!
Evelyn
Hola Erika. I wanted to know if you have a good recipe for the torta negra. I wanted to make it for my dad's birthday but I haven't found one that says WOW. Can you help me?
Thank You.
Dawn
Hi Erica,
I love your blog! A friend of mine sent me the link and OMG!! I am thrilled to be able to find authentic and delicious Colombian recipes online 🙂 My husband is Colombian (Bogotano) and grew up eating many of the dishes I see here. I've gotten some great recipes from his mom and dad (who's from Girardot) but am always looking for more. We try to get down to visit Colombia every other year and it's always a treat. We've got two (young, 3 and 5) daughters that we've taken down to Colombia so they can learn more about their heritage. Keep up the great work! And thanks 🙂
Dawn
mario
erik i love ur recipes
and you are so hot as well
cheers from australia.
Erica
Mario- LOL! Thank you so much for your comment 🙂
Tonya
Erica,
Your posts make my mouth water every day!
Robert G.
Erica, tu website es bacano! Me hace recordar de la patria de mis padres y un pais que adoro. Gracias.
Angela
Hey Erica! Tu historia es muy similar a la mia, tambien llegue a finales del 2000 y aqui estoy! Cuando estaba en Colombia (tambien soy de Medellin), no me gustaba tanto la comida tradicional, a pesar de que era la que comia todos los dias y ahora eso es lo que le cocino a mi familia! Llegue buscando el sudado de pollo. El tuyo es algo distinto pues el mio lleva zanahoria, pero no pimenton, pero de todas maneras felicitaciones! Ah, tambien vivo en el noreste de los EU.