In this lesson I will teach you how to say Pleased New Year in Spanish. I will also tell you how Xmas is celebrated in Colombia while teaching you some new vocabulary phrases.

This is how you say Happy New Calendar year in Spanish:

“Feliz año nuevo!” But in Colombia they merely say “Feliz año!”

My initial year in Colombia I celebrated the Xmas vacations in Barranquilla, Colombia. But every yr right after that I celebrated the Christmas vacations in Medellin. Barranquilla and Medellin, just like the relaxation of Latin The united states, truly celebrate Xmas on Christmas Eve, the twenty fourth.

Every year, I have a normal Colombian Xmas dinner right here: A supper consisting of “pollo relleno” (stuffed chicken), “buñuelos” (I might explain these as fried cheese balls), “natilla” (uncooked sugar pudding).

new year status between my Christmas evening meal in Barranquilla and my the a single in Medellin is that my new “novia paisa” (girlfriend from Medellin) cooked the “pollo relleno” from scratch. The pollo relleno that I experienced on the coast of Colombia was presently pre-cooked when obtained from the
“supermercado” and was already stuffed with “carne, aceitunas, y huevos.” (meat, olives and eggs).

Being a non-traditionalist, I found myself cooking a couple of non-Colombian dishes for my “paisita” on Christmas Eve. The very last time I went to New York I made confident that I acquired all the Puerto Rican and Dominican cooking ingredients that I would need to just take back again below to Medellin to cook some
Puerto Rican or Dominican dishes that I had learned from Boricua (Puerto Rican) and Dominican buddies in New York.

From New York, I brought back again Sazón, Adobo, Cilantro and, of system, Sofrito. I’d describe “Sofrito” as a marginally”picante” (spicy) Puerto Rican tomato sauce.

And with these elements, I managed to cook dinner Puerto Rican or Dominican type dishes of “arroz amarillo” (yellow rice) and “habichuelas” (stewed crimson beans). But in Medellin, the phrase “habichuelas” means “string beans” and “frijoles” means “beans.”