blog relocation

ATTENTION FAITHFUL READERS:

I have moved my blog to a different blog host, so please change your bookmarks to:

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Both food & travel blogs are up on the same page. There is a nice feature in that you can search my posts by category and/or "tags" (topic of the post), so please ENJOY!

Also, there is a way to subscribe to the blog, so that you receive an email notification when I post a new entry!

Home Eats

Well I am back home, and gastronomically loving it almost as much as emotionally! It is such a joy to eat familiar foods, that feature vegetables as a main element!!! Funnily enough, the only food photos I have of the last few days are of Mexican food, which is similarly vegetable-deficient like Colombian food. But nevertheless, my old camarones jarochos did hit the panchos tacos spot in my taste imagination. Also, the egg tacos for breakfast this morning brought me back to having my own kitchen, or at least a kitchen I am allowed to use, and confident to use.

(the onion pic is here because it is pretty)

The Last Breakfast

My last Tamal Tolimense.... :_(

Super Adventure Food Review

The past two weeks have been a whirlwind of adventure, and along the way I have has some notable gastronomic encounters.

Coconut sugar patty: Carnaval de Barranquilla

Breakfast in Pueblo Bello: eggs, beans, and fried arepas (yum!)

Lunch, Nabusimake: rice & beans with scrambled eggs and Casey's guacamole (minus salsa...)

International Women's Day dinner feast, Nabusimake: pasta with a onion and mushroom tomato sauce, whole wheat toast

So Colombia! Lunch Nabusimake: rice & beans with a fried egg on top

Danger #1 in San Andres: Mango Margarita

Danger #2 in San Andres: Coconut Mojito

Johnny Quay, San Andres, piña colada on the beach

San Andres = Colombia...

San Andres lunch: red snapper, coconut rice, salad, and fried bread fruit (delicious!) from a local restaurant that only opens on Sundays & holidays - specifically for the church goers of the local islander community (we were special guests)

Crab stew - slightly gumbo-esque, save for the pig tail, which honestly looked a little bit like the male genital organ... I avoided it.

I got through about half of the soup. HUGE bowl!

This is the Caribbean, San Andres lunch: Plato Mixto - lobster, crab, snail, and an entire fish, plus coconut rice, plantain pancakes, salad... I finished the entire plate!

Seafood! Happy Casey! Accompanied by pulpy coconut water. Island life.

Fruit Salad

Lots of food pictures coming once I am back with my computer and can upload from my camera(s), but here is a snap of the fruit salad Jennifer and I settled for after the ice cream shop was closed at 11AM when we arrived in Valledupar after 4 days in the mountains with no dessert. Of course it came with cream & ice cream (passion fruit). I requested mine cheese free. I find it nasty to mix cheese with cream & ice cream...

This is a fruit I bought on the road right in front of Juliana's house in San Andres. Not sure what it is called, but it seemed similar to mangostine.

Italian in Bogotá

Penne marinara with ceasar salad & parmesean. Add a little ice cream from "popsi" at the end, and you've got an Italian meal!

Armando's treat

Breakfast crepe florentine - spinach, mushrooms, cheese, eggs :)

Midori rice: chicken & calamari in lime cilantro rice with bean sprouts :)

Bold claim, eh?

Last night I went out to dinner with Christian. Just as I was leaving the apartment, Armando came home carrying a bag, but I ran off, I won't see him again until the 17th, when I am back in Ibagué for a couple of days. This morning's breakfast I realized what was in the bag he had brought back - my favorite dinner: stuffed arepas. So cute that he brought me my fave, so sad that I left rather than enjoy the thoughtful gift.