Columbia - World Cup Special

The Columbian Feast

For our Columbian feast we turned to Erica from http://www.mycolombianrecipes.com/ . Thank you Erica and to your Mamita - your grandmother for inspiring you.  To accompany the cooking we listened to the rather marvellous Colombia! the Golden Age of Discos Fuentes. the Powerhouse of Colombian Music 1960-76 

Arepas

A Columbian meal would not be complete without arepas.... so here is the excellent recipe from Erica to make 4 filling arepas - http://www.mycolombianrecipes.com/cheese-cornmeal-patties-arepas-de-queso. Now to make it vegan I bought some sheese (that is vegan cheese)... a rather odd texture mozzarella type vegan cheese that tasted ok but really had the texture of polyfilla (I know I am not selling it well).  It made a passable alternative to mozzarella but if you are not vegan I would not advise it!

Chuyaco (Colombian Orange Salad)

We served the arepas and beans (see below - http://www.mycolombianrecipes.com/frijoles-rojos-colombianos-colombian-style-red-beans) with this zingy chuyaco salad again from Erica's blog.  http://www.mycolombianrecipes.com/chuyaco-colombian-orange-salad

Frijoles Rojos Colombiano

Aji Picante (Colombian Hot Sauce)

We finished off the feast with the fiery aji picante or Colombian Hot Sauce with plenty of chilli, parsley, and coriander.


Game: 4 Food: 5 (Columbia... our new favourite team of the world cup... we had already experienced them in the Greece game but they just excelled themselves against Uraguay.... good football, good music ( check out Soundways record label for some hot beats).