Chacarero
A Chacarero is a traditional sandwich from Chile. If you are lucky enough to live in Boston, you can stop into the local Chacarero restaurant and order one fresh. If not, you can find all the ingredients at your local grocery store and bring home the tastes of Chile! At the restaurant you have the option of either chicken or beef, plain or BBQ style. The only thing I can not offer you is the authentic Chilean bread that you would get at the restaurant. When I do find the recipe for the bread I will update the...
Read MoreShark and Bake
This is a specialty dish served from roadside and beach side food vendors at Maracas Bay in Trinidad. Its their version of fish and chips. If you can not find shark, you can substitute with any type of fish you can bread and fry, such as cod, haddock, tilapia or mahi mahi. The word “bake” refers to the deep fried batter of dough that is used to wrap around the fish. Its very similar to the fry bread you would find at carnivals and festivals. Once the fish is added to the bake, you can top it off with...
Read MoreBun Cha – Vietnamese Noodle Soup with Pork
photo by jslander If your not so lucky to have a Vietnamese restaurant in your neighborhood, your in luck! I’m giving you a simple recipe for Bun Cha. Bun = rice noodles, Cha = grilled pork. It doesn’t get any easier than this! The sauce is a little bit sweet, a little bit sour mix of garlic, fish sauce and sugar. You first fill a soup bowl with lettuce, mint, scallions, vermicelli noodles and some hot pepper fish sauce and top with your favorite condiments, usually sriracha sauce or crushed red...
Read MoreHummus bi Tahine
I’ve been on a mission to duplicate the hummus from a local favorite Greek restaurant, Farm Grill and Rotisserie. They won’t exactly give me the recipe but they did tell me their secret ingredient is the particular type of tahini they import from Lebanon. The other secret to the creamy, smooth blend is getting each and every last skin removed from each chickpea. You can use a foodmill for this process or painstakingly remove them by hand, one-by-one. The word hummus means ‘chickpea.’ You...
Read MoreChoripan
The first thing I do when I step foot in Buenos Aires is make a b-line to a local parilla for a choripan! It’s one of the most popular sandwiches consisting of a large chorizo sausage split lengthwise topped with a large dollop of chimichurri sauce served on a crusty roll. The name comes from the it’s ingredients: chorizo and the crusty bread (“pan” in Spanish). The chorizo cut in half lengthwise is called mariposa (butterfly). It is said the name chimichurri came from an Irishman called...
Read MoreArepa de Choclo – Sweet Corn Arepa
The arepa is a corn-based bread found in the Northern Andes of Colombia and Venezuela. It is usually transformed into a patty and then baked, grilled or fried. Some people stuff them with either cheese, vegetables or meats. This was the first dish I immediately took a liking to while visiting Colombia. There are several different kinds of arepas I sampled before I discovered the arepa de choclo. It was the sweetest and most moist arepa out of the bunch. In Colombia they are typically cooked in homes on an asador...
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