just a quick word about the food in peru..interesting. Its an experience every time we eat out, which is often, because you can rarely identify what you are about to eat, and if you could, you sometimes wish you werent able too! we have ventured out to try new things and new resturants, and with that there has been a few surprises. just today we went to a place and i swear no less than 20 fried cuy (guinea pig) went past our table to a group across the room. two days before there were chicken feet in my soup, it was just a little disturbing but i managed to finish the soup and the meal experiencing minor nausea for the remainder of the day. i have tried cooking a few meals too. that hasnt been to bad. the markets here are beautiful and fun in there own ways, lots of fruit and vegetables...as long as i dont have to touch or cook the meat i am fine with it. so we eat vegetarian at home. i found a book sale and picked up a couple traditional cook books there. i think the guy thought i was some sort of gourmet chef he kept handing me all the dessert ones, and a different variety of methods for cooking. when we get home we´ll have you over for some traditional ´locro´ or some other dish. dessert is mostly jello and weird goo, but there are some decent tortas (cakes).
more from the cooking channel next week. stay tuned for amazing encounters of the peruvian people.
with love
stina
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Holy crap! I LOVE locro (at least the Argentinian variety.) Post the recipe if you can. Also, I recommend Torta de Tres Leches, it is some great cake. (If you want to look for it in a Mexican cookbook it's called Pastel de Tres Leches, torta means sandwich in Mexican...)
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