jueves, 22 de febrero de 2007

Colombian arepa de huevo



This a traditional food from the Colombian Atlantic Coast, it´s called also "Empanada de huevo"

Cost : US $.50


Time of preparation: 30 minutes
Number of portions: : 8


Ingredients:

1 pounded maize pound
8 eggs
2 onions
1 unit of mature tomato
Salt and pepper to the pleasure

Preparation:

  • Put the maize in soaking the day previous.
  • Take half and to cook in water during 20 minutes.
  • Add other crude half and to let cool.
  • Grind everything with a little salt and to knead.

-Meanwhile, beat the eggs with the onions and the tomato. To ripen with salt and pepper.

-Next, to take portions from maize and to form balls, to flatten them on banana or plastic leaves, until they are of ½ cm of thickness and 10 cm of diameter.

-Next, to fry them in the hot oil until they raise and they puff up. To retire them with a skimmer, to make a small groove and to fill up them with the egg mixture, onion and tomato.

-To close the groove with a little crude mass and being pressed and to put again in the oil during 2 minutes, until they are gilded.

viernes, 9 de febrero de 2007

Santamaria´s Bullring

Colombian Santamaria´s Bull Figth Ring

Santamaría´s Bullfigth Ring is the main bullring in Bogota (Colombia), it is located in the sector of San Diego.

Account with a capacity of 14,500 spectators and is administered by the Bogota´s Bullfighting Corporation.

It was inaugurated the 8 of February of 1931, with the performance of Manolo Martinez, Angel Navas and Mariano the Rodriguez, who fought the cattle ranch of Mondoñedo.

His main promoter was the cattle dealer Ignacio Sanz de Santamaría, who donated the land in where she was constructed and in whose honor granted this name to him to this scene.

Annually the bullfighting season is made in her during the months of January and February, in which traditionally they appear recognized bullfighting figures world-wide.


Address : Carrera 6 Nº 26-50

Tel : (57) (1) 3341482


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