My name is Layla Pujol, my family and friends call me Laylita. I was born in Vilcabamba, Ecuador and currently live in Luxembourg. I spent several years in the US, both in Austin and in Seattle, and our family recently moved to Europe. My recipes are inspired mainly by traditional Ecuadorian dishes that I grew up eating in Ecuador. However, my love of food – and therefore the recipes posted here – go beyond Ecuador and include anything from Latin America, my mom’s spicy New Mexican cooking, my grandmother’s homemade Southwestern dishes and Texas style BBQ, my husband’s (and his family’s) delicious French food, new dishes introduced by my amazing group of international friends, and of course the great variety of seafood, vegetables and fruits available in the Pacific Northwest.
I am currently working on my first cookbook, which will focus on delicious Ecuadorian recipes (adapted to my style, of course!).
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If you have any questions or comments you can leave them in the comment section, or you can email me directly layla at laylita dot com
Hola como estás. Llegúe a tu página por accidente pero llevo más de una hora viendo las recetas, solo te puedo decir que me dió mucha hambre. Soy de Guayaquil, Ecuador.
Una pregunta, al buscar más info de la página llegué al “about” y vi tu foto. De casualidad tu no estudiaste una época en el ITV en guayaquil?
Solo curiosidad jaja, en todo caso saludos y muchas felicitaciones por la página, de verdad está muy práctica y útil. Hoy cocinaré jaja.
Hola Roman – Si estuve en el ITV y claro que me acuerdo de ti, como estas? Que coincidencia que nos encontremos por aqui.
Thank you I love your recipes. My husband is from Ecuador and now I can make him some food he misses from home. It is difficult for his mom to give me recipes cause we do not have the things here that they have there but you make it so easy. Thank you.
Hi Laylita, I was looking for info on stewed goat and stumbled upon your site. The pictures are amazing and the receipes seem easy to follow. I would like to be able to save the pictures of the chivo. Would you please consider? thanks so much!
Hi Reese – If you click on the print option you can print the entire recipe including pictures. I don’t mind if you save the pictures as long as they are not posted or published without my permission.
Hi Laylita,
We clicked on the link in our email to confirm our subscription and it brought us here. So just wanted to let you know that we’d love to subscribe to your recipes :)
Hola Layla,
Today I was looking for a recipe for Arroz con Camarones and came across your website. Thanks a million, I went to the store and bought all the ingredients and made it for dinner. It is really scrumptious!!!! I have eaten this dish many times but for some reason could not get the taste I wanted and by following your recipe I discovered the secret is in boiling the shrimp before you peel them…
By the way, I am going to try to make the mango ceviche as soon as I find good ones at my local asian market. Also want to tell you that the last time I was in Costa Rica, I tried a ceviche made with boiled green plantains, their version of a vegetarian/vegan ceviche which was simply delicious.
The ingredients are almost the same as for mango or seafood but substituting it for the plantains.
Regards from your new salvadorean friend in Houston, TX
Janice
HI :)
I love your cooking. It is so refreshing to see so many healthy options that are done tasefully and look beautiful They are hard to come across these days. I am really interested in the Ensalada de quinua con cebollas curtidas or quinoa salad with pickled onions, however, the picture is there but not the recipe. Has the posting been removed?
I look forward to tyring it.
Thank you,
Daena
Hi Daena – Thank you for your comment, the recipe for the quinua salad is here: https://www.laylita.com/recipes/2009/03/02/ensalada-de-quinua-or-quinoa-salad-pickled-onions/
Hola Laylita,
I’m from Ecuador (Ambato) now living in Michigan. I married an american guy and of course
I wanted to introduce him to ecuadorian food. One day I was looking for a specific recipe,
then I came across your web site. Boy, I was very impressed. I have to tell you girl you web side is AWESOME!!!!. :) GREAT JOB!!!!! I like to cook, but sometimes is hard to follow recipes for different reasons. Either they are not clear, the ingredients are hard to find or they are so long that by the time you finish reading the instructions you are not interested in making it hahaha. (maybe it’s just me:)
Anyway, I love how you present each of your recipes. I’m sure you have already heard it before :), but your web site is soo easy to follow. I love your pictures, stories behind each dish and of course the step by step instructions. You are definitely a wonderful communicator.
At first I thought you were ecuadorian :) the way you carefully explain about the ingredients and the origin of each dish. Not to mention how knowlegeable you are about the food you made :)
Thank you soooo much for putting out this web site. I LOVE It!!!
By the way, you have a very sweet family.
Beautiful blog – well done.
Hi Layla, I’m so glad I found your blog.
I’m in Quito and feel happy I can actually get all the ingredients of your recipes.
Love Vilcabamba as well. I hope we can meet one day.
Wow! I was searching for a platano with cheese recipe when I found your beautiful and mouth-watering site. I have book-marked you and will be back often.
Also, I recently did a round-up of Latina bloggers, please consider coming to introduce yourself and adding our link: http://www.bilingualintheboonies.com/2009/02/looking-for-all-latina-bloggers.html
Very, very best,
Carrie