As you may well know, a few months ago some friends of mine and I started up our very own food safari. Where we get together every month or so with one country in mind. We then cook a dish or two at home, get together and share it. It’s been so great to cook dishes that push you out of your comfort zone and make you try new ingredients and flavours. Our first one was mouth watering Indian, that you can see here.
And since then, we have travelled (with our taste buds) to both Cambodia and Peru. Here’s what we cooked up:
Cambodia
I spent three weeks in Cambodia in 2013 and loved the food on offer, though I haven’t tried it since! I haven’t been to a Cambodian restaurant nor attempted anything in the kitchen so this was an exciting excuse to try just that.
My stir-fried pineapple with ginger dish
Steph’s spicy aubergine curry
Kathy’s creamy butternut squash curry
My ginger and coriander rice
Erin’s veggie rolls
Erin’s deep fried potato balls
Served with an amazing peanut dipping sauce
Up next, was Peru. Peru is known as having the best food in South America and Lima is known as the gastronomic capital of the continent! One of my friends was born in Peru so she hosted the Peruvian night and the food was spectacular!
Steph’s ceviche: a fish variety and a veggie mushroom one too
The purple corn that Kathy used to make the traditional drink chicha de mora
Erin’s delicious passion fruit chilanco (pisco, ginger ale and passion fruit)
Erin’s tacu tacu (rice and beans fried into a patty)
… served with a red onion salad.
Kathy’s Papa a la huancaina
My quinoa, sweet potato and corn soup
All mixed together on a plate, it was perfection! And to round it off, Florence’s passion fruit suspiro limeño.
Just looking at these photos is making my mouth water, all over again!
And up next, Italy! Where would you food safari to?
Marcella xx
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I still think that this is one of the coolest ideas ever! I definitely want to start this up with my friends!
Thanks Ashley! It’s safe to say that we really are loving it. The variety of foods has just been so delicious so far and I am sure that the next one won’t disappoint!
Those deep fried potato balls look delicious! I came a cross a Peruvian bistro during the Athens street food festival. They had buns made out of this black corn!
They were so so good! Beyond delicious. Ohh that sounds yummy, I think Peruvian food is getting more and more popular.
I love the idea of taking a food safari from your own kitchen! And the food looks delicious – well done!
Thanks! I couldn’t recommend it more, it’s so fun (both the cooking and the eating!)
OMG, I want to join your food safaris! All the food sounds and looks insanely good! What a great idea, and how nice that you have friends to do this with and can actually cook! haha.
I’ve never tried Cambodian food. But there is a Peruvian restaurant in Portland that we loved going to when we lived there. Really great food. The ceviches, the quinotto, like risotto but with quinoa. And the sauces that came to dip the bread with. So good.
It’s so fun, I would really recommend getting one together. Peruvian food really is in a league of its own, the flavours are special!
I said this on your last food safari post, but I love this idea soooooo much! And an Italian one will be amazing! My good friend in Plymouth is from Italy and I adore it when he cooks. Especially Carbonara!
Oooh Yum!! Now that really is the best. I’m excited to see what we all create 🙂
Ahhh this all looks amazing! My mom makes the deep fried potato rolls whenever I visit her so it was great to see those made an appearance on the Cambodia food safari. I’m such a fan of this idea. Gotta try it with my group of girls sometime soon 🙂
Ah yay! I hope the food looks authentic enough, we just had one cookbook and a few googled recipes to go by!
Haha I love how healthy the deep fried potato balls look! Looking forward to reading about the Italy session cause that’s exactly where I would like to fill my belly 🙂
They were gooood!! And yay for Italy, it’s going to be a yummy one!! 😀
So many vegetables and yummy colours! Cambodian food looks right up my alley. You guys are great chefs too…if I were trying to cook something for the first time, it wouldn’t look that good!
Yummy! I always find that following a recipe means you can achieve almost anything 😉
What a feast! My mouth started to water pretty bad while looking at all those dishes. We are hard core fans of Peruvian food. We have some almost every week. Lima is one of the places I dream to visit. I have not tried a lot of Cambodian food. There is an area close to where I live that is known for its Cambodian food. I haven’t been in a long time. #WednesdayWanderlust
Lima is a great place to eat, that’s pretty much what we did when we were there!! Yum! It’s so fun to cook from around the world within your own kitchen!
Oh my goodness – I have no words! This looks incredible!! I’d like to try all those Cambodian dishes especially the butternut squash curry and deep fried potato dishes. I love this idea!!
It’s so fun, I always look forward to the next one!
That stir-fried pineappleeeeee ahhh yum! These posts always get me hungry (and I just ate dinner) haha .. damn 😀
Yummy! It was all delicious 😀
The food looks amazing… such comfort food. I love it 🙂
It was all delicious!
Mmm so good! I can’t choose a favourite even between these two so I think I would really struggle to pick just one place… I’m very tempted to start a safari with my friends like you!
You should! Would love to get ideas from other people’s food safaris 🙂
Ladies, bravo! Every time I tried to cook something exotic it was a failure. Everything on your plates look so mouthwatering. I wish I was closer, would totally crush your party! 🙂 xx, Nano | http://www.travelwithnanob.com
Thank you!! It’s always so much fun, I’m excited for our upcoming Italian one.
Yum! A lot of our family friends in Montreal were from Peru and I remember loving the food so much!
Ohh that’s amazing, you must have eaten so well! Peruvian food really is great 🙂
its so yummy ! its delicious…
Mmm….. so good! I can’t choose a favorite even between these two so I think I would really struggle to pick just one place… I’m very tempted to start a safari with my friends like you!
You should! It’s seriously so much fun, I’m always looking forward to the next one!