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Alegría de kiwicha, cacao y maní // Amaranth Cacao Peanut Brittle

I do not have much of a sweet tooth. There are few sweets that really grab my attention. The ones that do often incorporate nuts or seeds...

Green Deditos: Year 2!

Last year Kahlo and I started growing a few things on our deck. Here are some of the lessons we learned this year.

Decolonizing Emoliente de quinua

As I continue my journey considering what Peruvian foods might have looked like before colonization I consider the tea, emoliente de quinua.

Food memory: Bananas, Plantains, and Peru

While I lived there, I made the same thing almost every day for breakfast because it was all I could afford: one fried egg, over rice, and a

Carapulcra, an ancient Andean dish

I crave food with a lot of flavor. One dish that delivers is Carapulcra, a Peruvian potato, peanut and pepper stew. If you do an internet...

The Quinoa Dish Everyone's Mama Made

The humble Guiso de quinua, as one of my research participants said, is a meal in and of itself. It packs a punch of flavor, gives you pl...

Latin American baby food? Yup!

Can I be real for a minute? As much as I wanted to feed my little girl all the best things in the world I also used to make baby food for ec

Green Deditos: Gardening Babysteps

When Kahlo and I first started this website and blog we'd hoped to document our journey with food: to document our family recipes, maybe ...

Beans That Made Him Cry

I had these smoked turkey necks in the freezer and a bag of pinto beans I needed to use up. I decided to throw them together into the pre...

Chupe de camarones, a beloved Peruvian soup

Once upon a time, I hated seafood. My father used to say to me that it wasn't possible that I was his child if I didn't love seafood, as ...

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