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Category Archive for 'caldo'

Three Courses in One Pot? You Must be Cocido-ing Me…

Posted in Asturias, Castillano, Chorizo, Madrid, Recipe, Spain, blood, boiled, caldo, carrots, chick peas, chicken stock, chickpeas, cocido, pork on Mar 28th, 2009

Many of European countries have a one-pot dish into which odds and ends of the beast and various cheap vegetables are thrown, and cooked until all components sit fall-apart tender in a rich broth. Examples include Lancashire hot-pot in the UK, the famed French pot-au-feu, and the various cocidos of Spain.

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Cositas Ricas, A Colombian Food Primer & A Podcast

Posted in America, Chorizo, Colombian, Restaurant Review, arepas, caldo, chicharron, diversity, eating, empanadas, indulgent meal, podcast, red beans, restaurant, rice on Feb 5th, 2009

 
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This podcast is an interview with our friend and native Colombian Juan Camilo Osorio covering not just the Colombian restaurant – Cositas Ricas – we visited together, but also some background on Colombian food and how it is eaten.

Some readers may remember back in the early fall when we posted about Bandeja Paisa, the gut-busting [...]

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