A while back, in my chicha venezolana con arroz post, I admitted something. I told you that most street vendors back home make their chicha with pasta, that it is genuinely delicious, and that I still could not bring myself to make it at home because my brain refuses to stop picturing a blender full…
I have a problem, and I suspect I’m not alone in it. I see something in the reduced section — 89p for a whole pineapple, in this case — and I buy it purely because it’s cheap, with zero plan for what I’m actually going to do with it. It then sits on the counter…
There’s nothing quite like a cold glass of chicha venezolana to bring back childhood memories. Creamy, sweet, and the kind of drink that instantly drops me back into a hot afternoon in Caracas, no matter how grey it is outside my kitchen window in the UK. Most street vendors back home actually make theirs with…
There’s always one banana. The other four get eaten happily enough, and then there’s the single straggler going steadily browner on the counter while everyone pretends not to notice. These mini muffins exist almost entirely to deal with that banana, and they tend to disappear just as fast as the rest of the bunch did….
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