My international cooking project has been on hold for several months. A difficult pregnancy and a small baby are not really conductive to entertainment. But I miss it, and I want to get through those damn "B"s so I've planned a couple of international dinners in the next few weeks (Bahian and Berber) and decided to make this "Bolivian" week at the Marga household. Rather than cook a whole Bolivian dinner for my family, however, I decided to try a different dish every other night or so. I started last night by making Picante de Pollo or Spicy chicken, an easy yet very typical dish. I'd been meaning to make it for quite a while, but finding yellow pepper (ají amarillo) wasn't easy. It doesn't seem to be available in any of the Latin stores in this area (though I'm told somewhere in the Bay Area there is a large Chilean community) so I had to wait until I went to LA to get some. Even then, I could only find "sauce" rather than powder kind, so I had to adjust the recipe.
It was OK, I thought it was pretty tasteless myself but Mike was very happy with its chicken flavor. It was a bit too spicy for Mika, though, and I'll probably won't make it again, though I'll certainly eat the leftovers.