Cooking in Colombia.

dwmte7 says on Sep 4, 2008, 10:40:

didn't know the movie was so long....didn't bring any popcorn.

patriarch

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Mononoke28 says on Sep 4, 2008, 13:39:

El tipo que hace los tamalitos está como repuestico. Hay que decirle que no le eche mano al tamal antes de venderlo.

Diana

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viajero123 (☼Travelguide writer) says on Sep 4, 2008, 14:17:

dwmte7 says on Sep 4, 2008, 19:37:

mon p...rather than learning all this...i'd rather just sit around and taste it. i gave up going in the kitchen as the wife can't stand having me in there. i love cooking, but she'll cook anything i want, any time i want it, so why bother. and it gets her hair frizzy if someone putzes around her kitchen.

what's for dinner?

patriarch

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Desideria (Moderator) (Trustee board) says on Sep 5, 2008, 03:14:

I'm planning on starting a blog on Colombian cooking, either in English or in Spanish (perhaps both), with both traditional recipes and newer, healthier adaptations of older recipes. I love Colombian food, but as you grow older it is not so good for your health any longer. It clogs your arteries, gives you diabetes type 2, makes you obese and takes you to an early grave (if you're not one of those lucky ones who can eat anything and stay healthy).

My in-laws had to make many adaptations on their diet as they were getting older; my father-in-law suffered from pain in his joints (gout?), my mother-in-law high blood pressure, obesity and diabetes type 2. They were eating more and more vegetarian with years, though too much carbs (IMO) and wayyyyy too much sugar.

I've been thinking of trying to adapt some traditional Colombian recipes to more modern and more health-conscious cooking methods; it's too much deep-fried and all that PALM OIL they use in the kitchen is a health hazard. The delicious soups that their maid used to make every day, loaded with fresh vegetables and roots, beans and herbs will go into my colection of recipes.

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Monpirri says on Sep 5, 2008, 05:10:

It's all fine and dandy if you want to change the way they cook the food for your own health reasons. But Colombian cuisine is pretty healthy and delicious as it is. Now if you want to lower your choresterol you may want to skip frying the food.
Right now I have a very high choresterol but not from eating Colombia food but because when I am on the road I eat lots of fast food. That is the one of the reasons I advertise a lot Colombian cooking or food.
We cooked a while ago caribañolas and we fried them all but after we finished cooking them I realized that if we bake the caribañolas next time they would be as good and a bit heathier.
I believe Scottish Chef Kendo MacDonalad made some gourmet changes to the Colombian gastronomy and you can see the gourment cooking in the DVD that he launched, “Sabores de Colombia" I think one of changes were tiny portions as the Europeans like to do.
http://poorbuthappy.com/colombia/post/gastronomist-and-critic-kendon-m...


Overall, Colombian cuisine is fine as it is and no changes are needed.
Here’s a video where an Argentinian chef and he also agrees with me, he said that “Colombia has a very good gastronomy"

Wait until the video loads and then click on the play button, you’ll need Quicktime to launch the video clip.
Please listen to the chefs’ comments about Colombian gastronomy.

http://www.colombiaprovoca.org/video/index.html

"Anyone who still thinks that Colombia is not a gastronomical paradise needs to have their head examined." Darloup

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Desideria (Moderator) (Trustee board) says on Sep 5, 2008, 08:18:

No, I'm not that much into gourmet cooking, just healthy, decent home cooking. The food from the coast, especially, seems to be all fried.

I'm going to try that cazuela recipe, Mompis, too bad it didn't specify the list of ingredients and her English was so heavily accented that I had hard time understanding what she said.

I wish I had brought my earthenware cazuelas from Colombia. I think I did, but lost them somewhere on the long road.

I've prepared empanadas, buñuelos (hahahaha, the leopard-spotted variety), papas chorreadas, ajiaco sin guascas (blah), arroz con pollo, frijoles con garra and of course, sancocho de gallina valluno, the family favorite that even my kids prepare.

Most Colombian recipes call for ingredients that can't be readily found here, but that cazuela is doable.

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Monpirri says on Sep 5, 2008, 09:38:

A year ago I was not able to find many Youtube videos on Colombia cuisine but I today I was most fortunate to find the videos I’ve posted here, I know they majority of the videos I’ve posted show fried food, but by no means Barranquilla gastronomy is all about fried food.
There are many great restaurants in Barranquilla that the tourist must stop by to find out all about this great culinary creativity. A while ago, I have posted here some fine places for the tourist to enjoy the typical and healthy cuisine while visiting Barranquilla.
Yes, I do not care much about gourmet cooking either, the tiny, colorful and decorated food pieces which they sometimes look like a Christmas tree.
You should have no problem in finding the cazuela recipe on the Internet or in a Colombian cooking book.

I’m glad that you have culinary experience and that you cook all those good dishes and I do remember your famous buñuelos because you posted them too many times.

"Anyone who still thinks that Colombia is not a gastronomical paradise needs to have their head examined." Darloup

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Mononoke28 says on Sep 5, 2008, 09:56:

The problem with the Colombian recipes I find online is how badly they are written. I undersntand the measurements are different because everything is grams but some times I find recipes that say something like "you'll need flour, potatoes and beef, mix the potatoes with the onion..." So I'm like, how much flour? How many potatoes and how much beef? And where did the onion come from if it wasn't listed as part of the ingredients? Oh and how much onion.

They're a mess. So yeah, Desideria, you have a wonderful idea.

Diana

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Monpirri says on Sep 5, 2008, 10:25:

Mononoke18, there no such thing as a problem to find Colombian recipes on the Internet. I understand you speak and write in Spanish so there are plenty of recipes on the net. Here is one I found a while ago. If the Internet goes down, Colombia has and sales plenty of cooking books.

Recetas de la cocina colombiana

http://poorbuthappy.com/colombia/post/recetas-de-la-cocina-colombiana/

"Anyone who still thinks that Colombia is not a gastronomical paradise needs to have their head examined." Darloup

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Mononoke28 says on Sep 5, 2008, 11:58:

Oh I totally agree with you and I have used several recipes online that I've made but there are many, many others that are not written correctly and throw me off. Even my husband can't make them out.

We also have a book of Colombian food that we bought from one of those book clubs and yeah it's great, if we could find some of the ingredients here in Denver, which many times we can't.

Diana

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ColombianoGringo (Moderator) (Trustee board) (☼Travelguide writer) says on Sep 5, 2008, 12:01:

Mononoke28 says on Sep 5, 2008, 12:06:

Sweet. I'll let you know as soon as we decide to make something else. We thought of making sancocho de gallina but couldn't find hen at any of the stores and on top of that the latino store here didn't have the regular corn to make it with. Not the sweet corn because that doesn't work but the other bland corn. So we gave up.

Thanks CG! I'll let you know for sure.

Diana

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Monpirri says on Sep 5, 2008, 12:07:

Ok, I hear you.
I have seen Colombian restaurants opened up and shut down because the owners did not know much about Colombian cuisine. Colombian cooking is not centralized but rather it is very regional! The same happens with blogs and it would ideal if someone who opens one has travel throughout the country and have a great Colombian cooking experience.
I have seen one or two Blogs already on the Internet.

"Anyone who still thinks that Colombia is not a gastronomical paradise needs to have their head examined." Darloup

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ColombianoGringo (Moderator) (Trustee board) (☼Travelguide writer) says on Sep 5, 2008, 12:09:

Monpirri says on Sep 5, 2008, 12:09:

MAPI en el Mercado de Barranquilla - VIDEOCLIP

Mapi buscando los ingredientes mas frescos para sus recetas en el Mercado de Barranquilla...

VIDEOCLIP - Clubes de Cocina con MAPI

MAPI compartiendo sus recetas en el almacen EXITO de Barranquilla. ... en la coina con mapi cocina barranquilla colombia telecaribe maria piedad abello ...

"Anyone who still thinks that Colombia is not a gastronomical paradise needs to have their head examined." Darloup

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Mononoke28 says on Sep 5, 2008, 12:13:

Uhmm... then I need to check out the frozen section of the latino store we have around here. They might have that frozen stuff. I'm sure it'll cost like $20 for 2 frozen corns 'cause that guy charges like $7 for one little bag of Doñarepa and like $5 for those chunks of panela. XD

Diana

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Monpirri says on Sep 5, 2008, 12:21:

"D, There are some websites in Florida that will ship you all kinds of Colombian food in ice packs. I posted a few on here a while ago. '

That's a pretty good advice! Buen consejo!

"Anyone who still thinks that Colombia is not a gastronomical paradise needs to have their head examined." Darloup

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Monpirri says on Sep 6, 2008, 07:02:

Barranquilla y Atlántico territorio creativo

Entrevista a Alfonso Rodriguez Linares, especiaista en gestión estratégica. Acerca de las implicaciones artísticas, culturales, gastronómicas, etc. Que hacen de Barranquilla y el Atlántico un territorio creativo.

"Anyone who still thinks that Colombia is not a gastronomical paradise needs to have their head examined." Darloup

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Monpirri says on Sep 6, 2008, 07:05:

POPAYAN CIUDAD DE LA GASTRONOMIA
Domingo 10 de julio, 2005
De: Mario Pachajoa Burbano
http://www.geocities.com/pachajoa2000/gas7.htm

"Anyone who still thinks that Colombia is not a gastronomical paradise needs to have their head examined." Darloup

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Desideria (Moderator) (Trustee board) says on Sep 10, 2008, 04:29:

I've started my cooking blog now for anybody interested check at my profile.

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