Pollo Arvejado - Chile chicken recipe :-)

Hey Guys!!!

This week has been crazy - and it's not even half over! Micah is counting down the days till the end of the semester, as am I! I have t-minus 60 days until graduation and then I'm off on my world trip! Despite our super busy life, and looooooong work weeks, we're still chugging on with this project. We've tried hard to stick to our own rules, but sometimes we've got to make allowances so that we can even cook anything in the first place!

Anyway...moving along to the food aspect of this post - this week we decided to cook a meal from Chile: Pollo Arvejado. I don't even know what Arvejado means, but it must be something good because this dish was probably my favorite so far!

This recipe was relatively easy to make, and surprisingly, we already had all of the ingredients in our kitchen. It's funny how cooking regularly actually helps one stockpile standard ingredients...not to mention, I've become a very good shopper now. I used to walk into a grocery store and get the same five items. Now, I actually know what the spice isle contains - a whole new world just opened up for me!

OK - got side tracked, again! Back to the food: we pretty much cooked this by the book, as usual. We did, however, serve this with baked sweet potatoes and yams instead of the recommended fried potatoes. The reasons being: 1) we didn't have regular potatoes, and, 2) the last time I tried to "fry" something on our stove top...it was a huge, huge mess.

Which brings me to a question I have (for you people out there reading this!): Is it possible to fry something without having a fryer? Is there some sort of stove-top way of doing this? Answers are appreciated!

Polo Arvejado verdict: DELICIOUS (at least when I made it!). The peas/onions/carrots had a nice, flavorful taste, the chicken was tender, and the baked roots really added texture to the dish.

This weekend Micah and I are road-tripping home to meet up with some German family which is in town - hopefully I can convince my German grandmother to write down some recipes for me :-)

See ya'll next time!


P.S. Both of our cameras are completely dead and I can't get any of our pictures off of them! Hopefully I'll get those pictures up here within this week!