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Any tradition-freak out there probably needs to skip this. Hallacas are a Venezuelan dish eaten only during Christmas, mostly because of its labor-intensive preparation requires family members to gather to make this delicious meat-stuffed-masa-dough-patties for lack of a better way to describe them. They’re also wrapped in plantain leaves and then boiled. They are similar […]
Ok, quick how to here: 1. make pie crust or puff pastry. 2. make a kick ass beef stew, as in the christmas hallacas one. 3. combine and bake. Tools: Rolling pin. Cutting board. Round cutting object… coffee can for example, or go fancy and get them round cutters at the store. Fork Spoon Small […]
It might not look like much. It is one of my favorite things to eat. It does take hard work to make. So many different cooking techniques at play, hallacas are worth the effort and time, I love this christmas venezuelan classic, I could make it more often if I had the time, but it […]
Extremely easy recipe, oh yeah, the photo… these couple of young sheep smiling on top of a New Zealand hill in the south Island, that’s the only photo I was able to find in my pbase site… hint… hint… have a look 🙂 Ok, back to this dish of which no photo exists, because it […]
Tonight I had some cooked crawfish I bought at the supermarket and by that I mean I bought them already cooked.  I haven’t  had crawfish before, and as it very frequently happens, I ended up eating whatever new thing I try. They are quite addictive actually, they tasted nothing like shrimps, if anything, their taste […]
In the search for the original empanada, the mom of all empanadas!, I turned to this Galician dish, something I had when i was like 5 and I can still remember the experience, yes, an awesome one i meant. It’s like this baked steak sandwich (or tuna or chicken or just bell peppers, in either […]
Ingredients: 2 lbs beef for stew 1 bottle of cab 3 strips of thick bacon 2 onions 2 carrots 3 stalks of celery 10 white mushrooms chicken broth 5 garlic cloves cup of tomato sauce 2 tbs flour thyme parsley bay leaves salt pepper Process: it’s all about caramelization of the meat in batches, deglazing […]