I decided to make a vegetarian week. I have been eating lots of greens, raw vegetables, and a wide variety of fruits, and honestly I feel great. Vegetables can actually change your mood. They can be used as a simple salad or as a gourmet dish.
This is a yucca puree with saffron flames, stuffed vegetables, roasted eggplant and onions and a few toasted pumpkin seeds.
Choose your vegetables well, wash them well and let your body tell you what to do with them. The consumption of organic food is good for you health and can also contribute to making a better world. If you can, grow your own.
Rodrigo Pacheco is a top-notch Ecuadorian chef who bases half his time in Quito and the other half in Banos, where he prepares meals made from fresh organic ingredients at Casa del Abuelo Art Hotel & Restaurant. He is also the executive chef at Cuisine Standard in Quito.
He has studied with some of the best, including Madrid Fusión in Spain, Alain Ducasse Formation in Paris, the Institut Paul Bocuse in Lyon, France, and the Instituto Inacap in Santiago, Chile among others.
He has done a Government Cultural Exchange in Canada and the Masters of Food and Wine tour of the world in Buenos Aires, Argentina,
representing Ecuador as an invited chef. Rodrigo was also a Culinary radio show host on Saberes y Sabores.
