Aggravation, thy name is Arroz con/y pollo!
First off: GRRRRRR!
I had this dish, twice, more than a year ago. In Cartagena, Columbia. It was BEYOND tasty!
I have been trying to find the recipe for a year now, on and off. I can't find it! Evey time I look, I get frustrated and give up. the fact that this dish might be specific to the city, or maybe not, doesn't help.
So now I'm searching though websites in Spanish and punching them into bablefish (faster and less frustrating then me trying to remember the meaning to all the words.)
Here's what I know about the dish:
- It had some meat in it (I ordered it with chicken, but it also could come with shrimp)
- It lots of yummy veggies. I'm positive it had bell peppers and onion, but it may have had carrots and/or peas in it.
- The rice was yellow
- It came with french fries (most dishes seemed to, even in super super fancy restaurants...)
- It might have had coconut in it, but I'm not positive. Most dishes had coconut in it, but as a background flavor. I don't normally like coconut but that it was yummy! (Maybe the two weeks of military ship food made it good!)
That's not a whole lot to go on... and I'm seriously craving it! I'm about to call every Latin sounding last name in the phone book, asking if they're from Cartagena. If they are, I'll pay them to come make it (and teach me how!)... ok, not really, but it's starting to sound like a better and better idea!
I had this dish, twice, more than a year ago. In Cartagena, Columbia. It was BEYOND tasty!
I have been trying to find the recipe for a year now, on and off. I can't find it! Evey time I look, I get frustrated and give up. the fact that this dish might be specific to the city, or maybe not, doesn't help.
So now I'm searching though websites in Spanish and punching them into bablefish (faster and less frustrating then me trying to remember the meaning to all the words.)
Here's what I know about the dish:
- It had some meat in it (I ordered it with chicken, but it also could come with shrimp)
- It lots of yummy veggies. I'm positive it had bell peppers and onion, but it may have had carrots and/or peas in it.
- The rice was yellow
- It came with french fries (most dishes seemed to, even in super super fancy restaurants...)
- It might have had coconut in it, but I'm not positive. Most dishes had coconut in it, but as a background flavor. I don't normally like coconut but that it was yummy! (Maybe the two weeks of military ship food made it good!)
That's not a whole lot to go on... and I'm seriously craving it! I'm about to call every Latin sounding last name in the phone book, asking if they're from Cartagena. If they are, I'll pay them to come make it (and teach me how!)... ok, not really, but it's starting to sound like a better and better idea!