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)
Erica
Thank you for telling me about it when you like a recipe. It's truly gratifying to hear that people are enjoying these recipes at home, in their kitchens, with their families, all around the country and all over the world. So thank you.
Kathy
Thank you for sharing this recipe! I made it this afternoon, and posted it on my blog (https://kitchenkathy.blogspot.com/2010/06/banana-dulce-de-leche-cake.html) I can't wait to try it tonight! I know it will be fabulous!
Danielle
no problem Erica I was wondering if it was just me not clicking on the correct tab --i am a better baker than cook although i cook well also so i really want some colombian cake ideas to surprise my husband with --since when i told him about this site he was excited but said that he doubts i will really ever cook something for him. so i am going to prove him wrong big time. 🙂
thanks again
daniela
Erica
Danielle- Thank you and good luck! I am a better cook than baker!!!! 😉
Danielle
Thanks a lot Erica you are so great. By the way whenever I click on the Breads and Cakes tab under the Recipe tab the recipes that come up are all the recipes from the Salad tab. and at the bottom it said comments are now closed. I wanted to bring this to your attention because I really want some bread and cake recipes and i don't know where else on your site to look
thanks
daniela
Erica
Danielle-Thank you.....I will fix it!
Danielle
ok thanks Erica I will let the suegro know. but do you know of any website where he can maybe look up colombian dishes in spanish?? thanks again.
daniela
Erica
Danielle- I don't know any good sites in Spanish, but I will check for you and let you know!
Danielle
hi Erica
I was just sittin here showing mi suegro your website and he loves it even though he cannot read a word of English. He is from Medellin and H
he wanted me to ask you if you have a website that is in espanol. He loves to cook and wants recipes in spanish. If you don't have one in espanol do you have a good one to recommend. thanks and I will wait for a response and tell my father in law
Daniela
Erica
Danielle- Thank you! I don't have a website in Spanish, but I would love to translate all my recipes soon 🙂
Erica
Thank you all for the comments! 🙂 🙂
Diego
Hi Erica!!!....Also I am from Colombia, but I am living in UK at the moment.....Your website is fantastic. It is a terrific idea share Colombian recipes in English, so everybody can cook our traditional dishes!!!. I will show your website to my foreign friends.
Thanks!!
Andrea
Your site is amazing. I was born in Colombia and I live in the USA now, your recipes are so good and my family loves every dish I made from this site. Thank you for the hard work.
Pao
Erica,
I am so excited about your site! I have been dying to find a place for Colombian recipes and your blog is just what I was looking for. I cannot wait to start cooking! I am also from Colombia and married to a guy from the US who absolutely LOVES Colombian food, but to add insult to injury, I am a terrible cook, so he is going to be ecstatic when I tell him about this! I also cannot wait to share these great recipes with my friends from here. They are always so curious about Colombian food and so far I have not been doing a very good job "representing", but you do such a great job at describing the recipes in a way that makes them very easy to follow, that I think I may just be able to impress them all. 🙂
Thank you, thank you! 🙂
Ben Bustillo
Hola Erica,
Tu blog está super chévere... Aquí te mando una receta de la Costa, que se hace diferente en Cartagena a la que se hace an Barranquilla; pero te la doy, como lo cocino yo.
Se llama "Mote de ñame con queso"
Me imagino que conoces el ñame. Es una raíz como la yuca, o la papa, que se cultiva mucho en la Costa. En los mercados latinos de California se encuentra congelado.
Cocinas el ñame (lo hierves) con sal a tu gusto hasta que se comience a disolver, pero no lo dejes que se disuelva todo, déjalo "chunkie" y le añades queso "cotija" (así se llama el Mejicano - es más duro). Y listo, ya está... Pero, haces salsa de hogaito (tomate, cebolla, ajo, cilantro, poquita sal, cebollín)
Se sirve caliente, échale hogaito a tu gusto.
Lo puedes acompañar con arroz blanco, trocitos de pechuga de pollo frito con aceite de oliva y pimienta, y ensalada de remolacha con zanahoria y cebolla en trocitos con vinagre blanco y aceite de oliva.
Espero te guste...
Erica
Hola Ben,
Muchas gracias por la receta. la voy a preparar y la pongo en ingles. Suena delicioso 🙂
ELizabeth
hola Erica,
love all the recipes you have posted online have you ever thought about publishing a cook book unless you already have one and i dont know about it.
Erica
Elizabeth- thank you so much for your wonderful comment!!! I would love to publish a book 🙂
Erica
Hello everyone.....Thanks for the comments!
lucia
Ciao Erica mi chiamo Lucia,il mio ragazzo è Colombiano (Medellin),
è andato via dalla colombia che aveva 7 anni circa...ma nonostante ciò ah molti ricordi,in particolare di una pietanza,mi racconta spesso che quando era in Colmbia mangiava una specie di palla di riso avvolta da una foglia...i dettagli che mi racconta sono pochi e quindi mi viene difficile trovare la ricetta o qualcosa di simile...anche perche qui a milano non ci sono molti negozi etnici...mi farebbe davvero piacere poterglielo cucinare...in modo da risvegliargli qualche ricordo in piu...se mi riuscissi ad aiutuare tene sarei davvero grata!!
Comunque complimenti per il blog è fatto davvero bene ed è molto bello!!!
grazie ciao lucia!!!
Alexandra
Erica,
I love your site. Thank you so much for your hard work. I am from Colombia.
Andrea
Erica,
Thank you so much for having such a great website filled with the many manjares from our country! I've been living in the U.S. for 10 years, since I was 15 years old, and now that I'm married I wish I knew how to cook Colombian food, as I never learned how. It's amazing to find a site that gives people the chance to learn about Colombia, and I am most grateful to see that you have provided us with that small part of our culture.
Thank you so much! And I'm looking forward for more recipes!