[Recipe] Hard Boiled Eggs

Hard boiled eggs have been one of those things that seem so easy to make, yet are so hard to get “looking good.”  The yolk is often smushed to one side, and the outside white frequently looks like it was the survivor of a chain saw massacre.  Yet there is hope! [Recipe] Hard Boiled Eggs […]

Burt’s 3 Years of Cooking

Mushrooms Stuffed With Cheese Are  a Guest Favorite Appetizer When I wrote our 3-year anniversary blog yesterday, I forgot to add a section on food and the joy of cooking, which has been a major theme in our lives since we arrived in Cuenca. Mercados. From the start, I have shopped for fresh fruits and […]

Carolina Smokehouse Meets La Yunta

We have mentioned the free cooking classes at La Yunta before.  $3 for a round-trip bus ride (or free if you drive yourself), and get a free cooking demonstration, along with some scrumptious bits of meal that fill you up enough that you don’t need lunch. Yesterday we opted to join them again on their […]

Turkey 13 – The Turkish Pinch

We spent today with Aysin, from Cookistan to learn how to cook a 6-course Turkish meal.  We traveled there using Uber for the first time, which worked well in getting us directly to the meeting point, though it took 93 minutes to travel 27 km (about 16 miles) in Istanbul traffic.  With Aysin’s directions, we […]

[Recipe] Honey-Coca Cola Chicken

I try to make it a point to experiment with at least one new recipe each week.  Sometimes I look at what is in the fridge and freezer and then choose a recipe that sounds good.  Sometimes I find a recipe that sounds good, and then shop for the ingredients.  A couple weeks ago, I […]

[Recipe] Stuffed Bell Peppers

[Recipe] Stuffed Bell Peppers Recipe Type: Main Dish Author: Burt Johnson Prep time: 30 mins Cook time: 50 mins Total time: 1 hour 20 mins Serves: 4 This is a quick and easy one-pot meal that has become a favorite of guests. It also makes excellent left-overs. Just spread a little tomato sauce over top […]

[Recipe] Tuscan Chicken

We eat a lot of chicken in Ecuador.  It is cheap, plentiful, and can be used in so many dishes that it becomes the go-to meal, both for quickie “what do I make tonight?” meals and for guests.  This is a recipe I first saw in The Wanderlust Kitchen web site, and have slightly modified […]

[Recipe] Coconut Balls

I read lots of food blogs, and often come up with recipe ideas from them.  I usually make a recipe three or four times before I decide I have it tweaked to my satisfaction, and certainly before I decide it is delicious enough, and easy enough, for adding to my blog.  In the last several […]

[Recipe] Buffalo Wings (hot!)

This is another of the appetizers that I now make for parties.  Very easy to make, though there is a fair amount of elapsed time for this recipe.  These are for those that like their wings hot and spicy! [Recipe] Buffalo Wings (hot!) Recipe Type: Appetizer Author: Burt Johnson Prep time: 10 mins Cook time: […]

[Recipe] Breakfast Sausage

When we were living in California, we used to like Jimmy Dean spicy sausage as a frequent side for breakfast.  Now that we live in Ecuador, we can no longer get Jimmy Dean.  Some searching on the web, and a bit of tweaking on my own, and we now have breakfast sausage whenever we want […]

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