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Emeril Tours With Macy’s Culinary Council & Cooks it up w/ Chef Ming Tsai {& Remembering My Moment w/Him}
One of the awesome things I still remember about my early days in blogging was writing two posts about my experience cooking with Emeril on his show "Emeril Green" on Discovery Network's Planet Green channel. Too bad that show no longer airs, but it was one ...
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Papi’s Sangria For Super Steamy Days
It's Viernes and I have no flan for you. I've got 4 ridiculous flavors in the works but we'll have to sit tight til I get it together. Life is loca these days with exciting haps on every front. So, today it's all about something cold, fruity, sexy an...
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Rustic Macaroni Chicken & Apple Salad
I grew up eating a lot of macaroni salads. Mami would make them for every single occasion, no matter how big or small, eventful or not. It was the staple main dish [for fiestas, cumpleaños, and the like]. Bocaditos de pollo always accompanied the varying sal...
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Summer Grubbin’ & Chilled Sippin’ on Margaritas
(Hydrangeas in Vinings, Atlanta)
Did you have a fantastic Father's Day? Did you eat as if it were Thanksgiving in June?
We sure did over here at the crazy Cuban house. After a 6-hour day working in the city, I came home to find a deck full of guests, circl...
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#FlanFridays: Reflections and Culinary Inspiration & Cinnamon Creme Flan Recipe
November was a super tough month for my family. My Grandfather passed away.
I went to DC for Thanksgiving and spent two sick weeks there, being confined to my mother's dreamy bed and the hyperactive kitchen (on days I mustered energy to crawl out of bed). A...
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#FlanFridays: Bruja Oregano?
(May, 2020 update: After propagating this lovely plant for over a decade, I FINALLY learned a lot about it. In fact, it is not oregano as we know in the culinary world. It's actually in the mint family -- which explains so much -- and is actually called, ...
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Macy’s Culinary Council Holiday Cookbook & A Honeycrisp Apple Spiced Rum Libation
If you know me, you know fall and winter are my favorite times of the year. There's nothing like the crisp air that causes me to clutch the hand a loved one (preferably a sexy man clad in Chuck Taylor's and a chunky knit hat), falling leaves, candle lit even...
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#FlanFridays: Goat Cheese w/Brandy Reduction Sauce. A Beautiful Surprise!
I woke up this morning, anxious to get back to Atlanta. I've been in DC for over one week and while I've been enjoying everything that comes with being with Mami and Papi (like eating my favorite food, lunch with papi in the city, sunny skies, sleeping in, c...
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Mojo Roasted Turkey with Jacques Pépin’s Mushroom Armagnac Sauce
Thanksgiving is far gone, a distant past with Black Friday and Cyber Monday having superseded any memories created just 4 days ago.
One thing that's still presumbly ubiquitous, and not overshadowed by mad rushes into the mall and squabbling customers for th...
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Family Traditions to Relish
This new generation of social media, instant gratification, “me, me me,” personas and pop culture and train wreck reality TV shows, has diminished the now vintage sense of family time at the dinner table. Long gone are the days of gathering after a stressful ...
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