Showing posts with label peru cooking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label peru cooking. Show all posts

Sunday, January 23, 2011

Peruvian Cooking Class

The ingredients to an AMAZING meal with Maria!



Maria washing the haddock before she taught us how to prepare it.  Ben ate and liked it.  He strongly dislikes seafood.

Maria showing us how to cut and prepare Yucca

Boiling the Yucca to eat this way or to lightly cook in olive oil.
   Ben and his mom tearing up the min and watching Maria

UQUITA FRITA CON CEBOLLITA, CILANTRO Y TOMATES. ! Delicioso !
We learned that the potato was poison before it was domesticated in Peru.  There was once 3000 kinds of potatoes and now there are only 300.

50% of the food we eat was domesticated in Peru

Maria does not use recipes, she looks in her fridge and uses what she has.  No trips to the store to buy ingredients.

We ate squash and liked it.  We had onion salad, quinoa (keenwah) salad, and learned about roasting  cumin before adding it to the dish.  and much more. 


We loved Maria.  I loved listening to her, watching her prepare and I actually think I could get into sharing the cooking experience with my family.  In Peru meal prep is a family affair.