While Giselle Achecar makes an aphrodisiac-laden arugula salad, Ana Cabn stops by the EcoRico Kitchen to make her fab mojitos. Salsa dancing ensues...
More wackiness in the Eco Rico kitchen as Giselle, her Mom and daughter cook a country Puerto Rican dish - pollo encebollao (chicken smothered in onions) seasoned with homemade adobo. Some organic vino keeps the women loose...
Giselle and Dor Damelin cook up some vegan chocolate pudding for Giselle's new food pyramid - chocolate and fruit. Bonus treat: Dor shows Giselle how to open a coconut with a butcher knife!
Giselle Achecar and Ana Cabn dance and cook an EcoRico-ized Middle Eastern shrimp in celebration of Giselle's quarter Lebanese roots, even if she's still 100 boricua, baby!
Giselle Achecar interviews famous chefs at the National Kidney Foundation's Great Chefs of LA Go Green, Go Organic event. Bonus: Giselle sneaks onto the Border Grill Truck to scarf churros!
Giselle Achecar profiles organic and bio dynamically produced vino at the National Kidney Foundation's Great Chefs of LA Go Green, Go Organic event! Mama loves her vino.
If you ever wondered what it takes to make Arroz con Pollo, look no further than the EcoRico kitchen! Giselle Achecar and her Mom make this Puerto Rican comfort food fully organic and crazee delish!
Giselle Achecar and Sharon Jakubecy dance salsa and whip up a Puerto Rican bizcocho (cake) con merengue. Organic, eco-licious yumminess. Bonus: Giselle's progeny, the Sous Chef. These girls are NUTS!
Ever had a spicey-ass, organic Sri Lankan curry Experience this hot pleasure in the EcoRico kitchen with Giselle Achecar and Sherene Hulugalle! Bonus: Giselle quaffs her fiery thirst with an eco-licious bottle of Quivira Mourvedre. Ahhhh.
Giselle Achecar interviews Chef Roberto Maggione, formerly of Locanda del Lago. Most important to Giselle: who does the Chef's hair
Buy Domestic Seafood instead of imported. Why Imported seafood is washed and frozen with STPP, a neurotoxin. Yuk.
Why buy Fair Trade certified goods Giselle Achecar says: It's EcoSexy, baby!
West Africa accounts for more than 70 of the worlds cocoa production. In this region, 50 million kids work - many trafficked and enslaved to farm delicious cocoa. Do you want your chocolate produced from child slave labor No. Then buy Fair Trade chocolate!
After eight long years, Giselle Achecar attempts once again to compost. Victory or failure
93 of the soy, cotton and canola grown in the US in 2010 were genetically engineered. That boils Giselle Achecar's Puerto Rican blood. Watch to learn what you can do. First up: Food Labels!
What happens when you marry your passion with your purpose Giselle Achecar of EcoRico promises: You create a life lived with Eco-tegrity!
Ever wonder what the difference is between an organic product and a natural one Let EcoRico's Giselle Achecar teach you! Hint: Organics aren't grown with sewage sludge-based fertilizers.
Giselle Achecar takes her Mom to school. And what does she learn Conventional chicken feed contains GMOs and roxarsone, a drug containing arsenic. GROSS. Organic chicken feed does not. YUM.
EcoRico's Giselle Achecar warms her insides with locally produced Limoncello liqueur. Earth friendly and sweetly tart, its an inspiration for new recipes!
Giselle Achecar interviews Mary Sue Milliken by her Border Grill Truck at the Great Chefs of LA Go Green, Go Organic event!
Giselle Achecar's favorite fruit - mangoes! In the EcoRico kitchen, they're the Queen of Fruit! High in iron, eco-licious and EcoSexy!
Giselle Achecar and Sharon Jakubecy make an EcoSexy merengue. Smear it on cakes, dip it with fruit, lick it off fingers. Delish!
Giselle Achecar and her Mom cook up some yummilicious Puerto Rican rice and beans or, as they say on La Isla, arroz con habichuelas, EcoRico style - all organic!
Giselle Achecar and Dor Damelin whip up some spicey vegan hot chocolate using an ancient Aztec technique. Add cayenne and Vodka, and you'll stay toasty all night.
Giselle Achecar discovers sushi in a pop-up. Eco-licious!
Giselle Achecar and her daughter make an eco-sexilicious smoothie the Tropical Tango Toxin Buster! Mango, papaya, pineapple, coconut water, yogurt and hemp protein powder. YUMMM.