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awesome, thanks!

I went on a cooking spree yesterday. I made the so good, so green dipping sauce, Brazilian-style kale, home-style refried beans, savory orange rice, and the Latin baked tofu. The rice and beans were very good, but the green ají sauce, kale, and tofu were RIDICULOUSLY good. My meat-eating boyfriend and I stuffed ourselves. We ate all 4 servings of the tofu and most of the kale. The green sauce is almost gone because I've been spreading it on bread all day.

I'll be receiving a package of canned huitlacoche soon, so I'll be experimenting with ways to prepare it and I'm sure I'll be trying out some more VV recipes soon. I can't wait!

I got this for Christmas, can't wait to start cooking from it!

Yeah, this is an awesome book. I'm making the chickpea and potato enchilada for New Year's Eve, among other delights!

I was rolling with the Christmas gifts this year, but this is probably one of the ones I'm most excited about!! I've already started a grocery list for this book!

Me me! Except... I didn't have a steaming basket, just a rice cooker/steamer, and didn't know how much water to put in to cook them or anything and most of them came out way underdone (from one batch anyway). So if anyone has tips on making them in a rice cooker they'd be greatly appreciated, otherwise I'm going out and getting a steaming basket tomorrow (actually I might just do that anyway)! My brother got one that was perfectly done and said it was amazing.

I made the VV black bean and sweet potato tamales to take to my uncle's house so I'd have something that 1: I could eat and share, and 2: would be easy to just throw in the microwave to heat up when we got there. My aunt seemed stressed out at first with another food item to deal with, but was so happy when I said "just throw them on a plate, nuke them for 5 minutes, and then we'll feel them and see if they need more time." "ok, that's easy!" she sighed, visibly relieved. Everyone was supper excited that I brought tamales, and my (very omni/vegetable phobic) uncle who tries to keep several miles between himself and sweet potatoes, broke his no-sweet-potatoes-ever rule because they were tamales, ate sweet potato in front of me for the first time in the 20+ years I've known him, and enjoyed them! The only complaint from some was that they were too hot! And I thought I went mild for them. Such wimps.
I'm so sad that these Venezuelan tamales in banana leaves didn't make it into the book. Any chance of the recipe appearing on your blog, or in a future book, or something?

I made these for my family gathering last night! Soooo good. Both my omni mom and I think that the pine nut crema tastes like sour cream, which made me very happy. I think I might make some more tomorrow and try it on a baked potato.

I finally have this book in my possession! A gave my family a huge list of cookbooks that I wanted, and I got this one among others.

So, first meal I am making is "Creamy Corn Crusted Tempeh Pot Pie". I need meals that will travel for New Years Eve and New Years Day. This is what my husband and I will be eating on New Years Eve. I am so excited!

Any advice?

Mine just arrived! I'm a little late on the bandwagon, though. I'm eyeing the pupusas and the black-eyed-butternut tostadas!

This will be my first time with latin food, can't wait!

I just had the Creamy-Corn-Crusted Tempeh Pot Pie (Pastel de Choclo) and I am officially declaring it my favorite recipe of all time.

I made the chickpea potato enchilada's for a new year's eve dinner (4 non vegans at my table) and everyone liked it a lot! The tomotillo sauce was amazing, i will make more next time, i thought it could be 'saucier' (thats how i like mine)

Made it with the cilantro-lime rice, and a mexican style cesar salad (cesear dressing from AFR, beans, corn, avacados, romaine)

Everything I have made is fantastic. I always use dried beans now, especially for re-fried black beans.

Also, fried plantains just may be my favorite food to make and eat. yum.

Amen to that! It was superb.

um . . . i just ate over a quarter of a batch in one sitting. hot DAMN this stuff is good. imma make it every day 4-eva.

I put up a recipe on my blog, and there's a link to plenty of photos of hallaca construction. I'll keep tweeking the recipe: the dough could use just a little less masarepa flour, and my dad said there was too much annatto but whatever, it's my tamale time. General first-time hallaca eaters (including omnis) were fans.

Mmmmm, those look and sound amazing! Thank you, thank you, thank you for the recipe Terry! In a couple months, when I've recovered from making a double batch of VV black bean sweet potato tamales, (and there are no more tamales in my freezer) I am so making hallaca!

Hey guys!

I ALWAYS skip to the desserts with any cookbook. So I made the tres leches cake! It was awesome. I enjoyed it immensely.

However I don't recommend putting in the agar in the topping, I did for mine and the topping became jellified. I was hoping for a softer, creamier feel. I think I'd leave it out, or reduce the agar.

I made arepas again this morning but wanted a more breakfasty filling. I had a couple "sausage" patties left from yesterday (just red quinoa held together with millet flour, flax seeds and water and seasoned with sausage spices). I made a little guac and stirred in some nooch with a hot, crumbled up sausage patty. I put slices of tomato in the arepa and then stuffed in the guac mixture. It was totally yum. I could eat the Venezuelan style arepas every day.

I made the sweet corn empanadas and my picky child who eats practically nothing has been begging for me to make them ever since. They are delicious.

I'm going to have to suck it up and do a major shop at my latin grocery so I have more stuff on hand. I have to confess the sauces scare me.

i made the portobello feijoada and the spicy tortilla casserole with roasted poblanos this weekend. my spouse and i couldn't be happier. soooooo soooo sooooo amazing! the best Latin food we've had. ever! later this week it's gonna be the quick red posole with beans....ooooh, i cannot wait! :D

We were eating the feijoada all last week w/ the savory orange rice and braised kale! It was so frickin amazing!

Thanks for the recipe, once I move and have my new kitchen set up, I will be making a huge batch to store in the freezer and I'm definitely going to try wrapping some in banana leaves.

i'm eating the last of my leftovers now for a super late breakfast. i am sooooo sadfaced they're gonna be all gone. where has this feijoada been all my life?! soooooo delicious! (didn't have chunky tvp - so we used crushed up soy curls instead!)



i'm putting the creamy-corn-crusted tempeh pot pie on our menu for next week. superyay!

So happy to see the pastel de choclo getting some love. And yeah snow makes it totally portabella feijoada season.

If you're shopping for another hearty stew for cold weather I recommend the Hearty Pumpkin & Cranberry Bean Stew. Pumpkin, cold and you go great together.

I just got this book in the mail today, and am so totally excited to start cooking up some of the recipes.