5 years ago
All posts by Bren Herrera
Conscious Moment Today About World Hunger & Rationed Food
(Mi Tia's neighbor fetching coconuts)
I'd be so wrong and would be renounced of my Latinhood if I ended the day without mentioning it's been Hispanic Heritage Month for the last 29 days, ending tomorrow. I'm not exactly sure why I've failed to honor it someho...
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- #FlanFridays
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- Cooking Recipes
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- Cuba
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- Desserts
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- Food
It’s On and Poppin’! Major Weekend in DC: Lemon & Vanilla Flan Made it to Food Network Casting & Cooking For Paquito D’Rivera!
Can't you tell I'm UBER EXCITED. GIRL FOOLISH EXCITED! I wish all my weekends were as sweet as this past. It seems as though I'd have to move back to DC to enjoy these moments. So many last minute beautiful things occurred in the last few days. Not that grea...
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- Cocktails
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- Cooking Recipes
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- Food
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- Fusion
CARROT MOJITO! MOJITO DE ZANAHORIA!
YUP. I was almost challenged by another blogger. Really, Lori Lynn told me I was funny for even thinking of what one of these wild concoctions would taste like.
I don't like to be defeated.
So here I am, on a Tuesday afternoon, drinking alcohol. I work from h...
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- Cooking Recipes
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- Food
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- La Cocina Cubana
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- Main Dishes
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- Meat
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- Savory
Cooking Picadillo, Flan & Mojitos @ Serenbe
Media coverage is priceless. They say any press is good press. Sometimes I want to conjure up something so outrageous and unlike me, just to to have my publicist ring my phone off the hook with interview yays or nays.
I'm still debating! Any ideas?
Well, w...
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ZAYA, A Place for Good Times
[rating:4/5]Last visit: Sept. 18, 2008I hadn't eaten Mediterranean food since I moved to Atlanta. And every time I visit home, I don't have time to peruse the city streets of DC to eat at resto's I frequented before. So I was very excited when I got an in...
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Honey Carrots With 2/3 of Cuban Cuisine Trinity & Food Editor Job!
I have painful memories of a Tupperware Juicer making that "ñññññññ" sound at 6:30 in the morning as my mother shoved the most disgusting vegetables a bleached skirt-wearing pubescent girl could think of! Celery, radish, broccoli, beet, carrot, and all other...
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- Latin America
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- Lifestyle
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- Mexico
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- Tasty Travels
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- The Americas
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- Travel
Sayulita In Pictures & Vanilla & Hibiscus Tea Giveaway!
I don't feel like writing much today. Really don't have time, truthfully. Hard pressed to finish my proposal and out the door by Friday and I'm just not in a good mood. (What a complete wash. This post took me over 90 minutes to write between editing pics an...
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Nutmeg/Nuez Moscada
Nutmeg, or "nuez moscada" is common in Latin cooking but not as much as we see in American cusisine. In Cuban food, you'll always find it in bechamel suaces, especially when making croquettes. Though not a staple in Latin food, it's definitely something I lov...
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Spanish Style Plantain Omelette & Call for Cookbook Testers!
I love to eat. But damn I need a break!
I know I've been away from both writing and vising your blog, but I'm so glad to finally be back in HOTlanta and into the regular order of biz! After 3 weeks of a great vacation in Mexico, mixed in with R & R with...
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Cooking and celebrating Labor Day, Latin Style. I prepare mango salmon burgers, orzo and zucchini salad and mojitos for the morning show!Link
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