Some weeks ago I was contacted by someone who was in charge of finding and inviting latina bloggers across the US and elsewhere to an event in Miami that introduced the new roll-out of the QueRicaVida.com site. This site is put out by General Mills and is their spanish speaking and hispanic oriented outreach to...

When I went to see Sandor Ellix Katz speak about Wild Fermentation (Sandor Ellix Katz and the Wild among us) I heard him mention that he was getting into wild fermented meats. This reminded me of my childhood when we would make Colombian fermented sausages called salchichas or chorizos. I wrote to Sandor about this...

If you have read some of my older posts, especially the ones relating to latino foods, you see that I occasionally write about recipes that might be a bit disturbing to the general American cook. This is not on purpose but because the experience of cooking food in the US can be fantastically different from...

[Sorry for the annoying copyright symbols on these images but there are too many people downloading and stealing these images. I am working on a downloadable for-a-fee document where you can get the whole "picture" and I do not lose all photo rights and revenue.] Arepa de huevo is a Colombian food that I remember...

I am slowly, ever so slowly, finding stores within a 50 mile radius of where I live that have the ingredients I need to make Colombian and also Japanese foods. The first 30 miles of that travel is through a foodie wasteland so don’t be impressed with the distance I travel for food . One...

Christmas in Colombia is QUITE a production. Its not just one or two days like here in the US and it can be exhausting if you are not used to partying constantly for a better part of some 15 days, day and night after day and night. ...

(Sprinkle with powdered sugar and serve with hot chocolate © 2005-2006 Nika All rights reserved) Last year I did a quickie post on Colombian bunuelos but I did not do the How-2 Guide or give a recipe. I will do that now. Colombian Bunuelos Ingredients: 2 C white fresh farmers cheese, finely ground or crumbled...

I set out to make some cute little thumbprint cookies and take a few pics. What happened was, well what happens when you dont follow recipes. As I was making the dough, I remembered that I had some guava paste in the refrigerator. I had also found some sweetened coconut earlier when I was rummaging...

Here is an article of mine published at the Sugar Savvy blog, part of the Well Fed Network. You can see that I pulled some of the material from my last post into this article. Writing the article was my inspiration for pulling together the whole Colombian Breakfast How-2 guide post. Latino Sweets: Guava In...

(Clockwise from top left: changua, arepa with queso blanco, pan de bono, and patacones – Copyright © 2006 Nika Boyce) A Colombian breakfast is not just one thing, sort of like you might think a proper English fry up would be. I think that a Colombian breakfast can actually have many different possibilities limited only...