Category Archives: Latin America
My Tea Escape
It’s no secret, I love tea! I would be a bonafide TEA NUT if my place (an my funds) weren’t so small. But whenever I get a chance to I like to look up new tea reviews and articles and try new, or old favourite, types of teas. Most of my loose tea comes from [...]
A New Year, A New Decade
It’s now 2010! This past year felt like a short moment to me, and New Year’s Eve was like a blur. I usually get nostalgic on New Year’s, right after midnight hits. I think of times gone by and times yet to come and about all of the things I miss most. I was surprised [...]
Some Favourite Cookies
I thought I would take a short hiatus in following my international recipe dictionary and instead of going on to Nepal, next on my list of recipes to try, I want to add an entry about cookies. After all, this is the one season of the whole year when the most amount of cookies are [...]
Salsera soy yo!… I hope!
It’s really not surprising that I love latin music. HELLO?! I’m latina of the world! It kind of goes without saying! However Latin music wasn’t always a favourite for me. When my parents moved us from Canada to El Salvador I was adamant to not let the latin influence get to me… Yes, I was [...]
El Salvador… part deux
I have always wanted to try to make Atol de Elote but thought the process would be very time consuming. I looked and searched for a good recipe on-line and in the books I’ve collected and found a few contradictions. So I took a few pieces from a couple of recipes and came up with [...]
El Salvador… but of course!
My home land… where my heart is! So of course I had to post a recipe from there!
El Salvador is the smallest country in Central America at 21,040 km sq. (about the size of New Jersey), and the most densely populated one. It borders the Pacific Ocean between Honduras and Guatemala. It’s situated on the [...]