Category: Cookbooks

  • Brazilian Feijoada

    From our most frequently used cookbook, Great Bowls of Fire, comes this Brazilian black bean and meat stew. The chipotle peppers and chorizo really complemented each other, although next time I’d use a spicier chorizo if I could find it. Great Bowls of Fire is a fantastic cookbook — a lot of the recipes only […]

  • Shrimp in Enchilado Sauce

    Enchilado de camarones is shrimp in a mouth-watering tomato sauce made with beer, wine, or a combination of the two, served over rice. This recipe came from Healthy Latin Cooking, but there are similar recipes to be found elsewhere online. Delicious!

  • Chicken in Green Pumpkin Seed Sauce and Hearts of Palm Salad

    Made this dish for our friend Carrie one evening. The sauce was fantastic — a combination of tomatillos, jalapeños, green onions, cilantro, pumpkin seeds… it goes on and on. Yum! We had never had hearts of palm before, they were close in taste to artichokes. Very good with this simple dressing of corn, tomatoes, and […]