Patties “Patí”

New recipe from my Julie & Julia challenge. Patí patties from the Colon province.

Bodochi with roasted wild boar (saíno)

New recipe from the Julie & Julia challenge of the Panamanian cookbook T'ACH

Rabbit with mashed banana “majao”

New recipe from the challenge Julie and Julia from the book T'ach

Cast-Iron roast Chicken with patatas panaderas

Roast chicken and potatoes, a match made in heaven

Quick Boeuf bourguignon

Happy 2018! Please forgive my tardiness in posting. Apparently, I’m not too much of a blogger lately. I still cook and take pictures, but time and duties seem to always get in the way... Boeuf Bourgignon is one of those recipes that seems to take forever to cook, but there’s actually a quick way to do …

Duck magret with honey, raspebbies and balsamic vinegar

Last Holidays I wasn't sure at all about what to make for New Year's Eve dinner. And I didn't decide about it until the very last moment when my husband asked me for smoked ham with honey, pineapple and mustard. Looking for inspiration, I bought one duck magret  to test a recipe and see how it goes. But …

Pork sirloin with Pedro Ximenes sauce

Last post was only in Spanish. To compensate my Anglophone readers, this one is in English and it is also a pork recipe.  Just the other day a friend told me about this simple recipe with pork sirloin and sherry, today I thought it would be the perfect dish for our family lunch to celebrate …

Ragoût

As soon the days start to get colder, ragout makes its appearance  at home. I like it because it is easy to cook, I just put everything in the pressure cooker and basically forget about it for the next 30 to 40 minutes, and so heartwarming. In Panama we have a similar recipe, it is call …

Oxtail stew in red wine

  This winter in Madrid is being a rainy one, no white Christmas for us this year, and it’s such a shame because we had all of the cold and none of the beauty of winter… The advantage, on the other hand, is that I’ve been able to cook some heavy duty dishes. Red wine, …

Mondongo, Panamanian tripe stew

Cow tripe... it sounds kind of weird, I know, but trust me, it is such a delicious dish... I grew up eating this food; my grandma, aunt and mother (the women at my childhood home) were never shy to introduce us, los niños, to the traditional cooking from their childhood. My grandma was born in …