Chicken Soup

“I always saw my mom cooking this kind of dishes, when I was young. That’s how I learned.” Ingredients 1.  Prepare the rice by soaking it in water “to make it soft, to make it cleaner.” 5.  Add cilantro, garlic, parsley and salt.  Let it cook for ten more minutes, then turn off the fire.

Gombo Sauce

“You put this in a bowl. And then you put your fufu, and then you can use your hands, or knives, or forks… But usually in Africa we say: to eat better, to take your time to eat, use your own hands. That’s what we usually say.” Ingredients

Ugali

Ingredients 1.  Add the mahindi to the pot of boiling water. “It doesn’t have a specific measurement. You can put more as needed.” Leave it to boil for two or three minutes. 2.  Keep stirring until it becomes a paste. 3.  After it becomes a paste, cover the pot, “then you wait a couple more minutes so it can fully …

sombe

Sombe

Ingredients 1.  Bring a pot of water to a boil and add the cassava leaves. “Because we buy this from the store, we don’t know how they process it. So we boil the water as we are doing right now. You open the package and you put the sombe inside and it boils and it takes the bad smell.” 2.  …

Cocadas

Ingredients 1. En una olla mezcle la crema de leche, la leche regular, la leche en polvo, el azúcar, y un poquito de maizena. 2. Ponga la olla al fuego y mueva la mezcla constantemente mientras se cocina. 3. “Se supone que la mezcla esta lista cuando, al mover la cuchara la comida se mueve con ella en bloque.” Ahora …

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Arroz con Leche

“Este postre se volvió en casa muy importante desde que empece de novia con mi esposo. Porque, como ya les dije, la receta me la dio mi suegra. Ella acostumbra a hacerlo particularmente los domingos en casa, entonces era una sensación.” “This particular dish became important at home ever since I started my relationship with my husband. I already mentioned …

Roselle Paste with Shrimp

Roselle Paste

Ingredients 1) Heat the oil and sauté the turmeric in a pan. Add the shrimp. 2) Add the roselle leaves to the pan. Add a little water and cover the pan to soften the leaves into more of a paste. “Once the paste is done you can leave it for 3 or 4 days and it can last.” 3) Once …

Pupusas

Pupusas

“En el Salvador, en cada lugar que usted llega, hay pupusas….Las pupusas son una tradición, que me gustaría que la conocieran, que se acercaran más la gente americana a probarla” “In El Salvador everywhere you go you’ll find pupusas….Pupusas are a tradition, which I’d love for everyone to know about. I’d like more Americans to try them.”   Ingredients 1. …

Pastelitos Salvadoreños

“Mi hija, más que todo, a ella sí cuando estoy cocinando así, le digo para que ella vaya aprendiendo. A veces pienso que no (aprende), porque como que ella dice que no va a ser de cocina. Dice que siempre quiere que yo esté cerca de ellos, para llegar a mi casa siempre ellos a comer.” “My children love these …

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Arroz Rojo

“My mom used to make it when it was like a celebration–birthday party or Christmas, or something like that. But here I think it’s more like whenever you feel like it. So yes. Rice is one of the things we put with a lot of our food.” Ingredientes / Ingredients 1)“Creo que empezaremos con el arroz. Entonces empezaremos a cocinar …