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All posts by Bren Herrera
- #FlanFridays
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- Cooking Recipes
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- Desserts
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- Flan & Desserts
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- Food
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- La Cocina Cubana
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- Pressure Cooking
#FlanFriday: It’s a Pear and Brandy Creme Kind of Thing
#FlanFriday. You thought it was a thing of the past, didn't you? It was, truthfully. I love me some decadent desserts, flan topping the list, but even I got a bit "bored" with developing a new custard recipe each week. But, it's been a good year since I've...
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- Cooking Recipes
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- Fish
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- Food
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- Fusion
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- Main Dishes
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- Sauces
Salmon Tacos With Spicy Coconut Milk Slaw for National Taco Day
Fall is finally here. Finally. After the crazy brutal summer we suffered, I'm so thankful the weather has finally broken to the point I don't want to think about anything summer-related. Not the beach, not the pool, not the cookouts, not the summer culinar...
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- Food
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- Oregon
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- Travel
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- Travel Guides
Portland PDX Eats: A Perfect 4-Day Foodie Itinerary
One of my recent blog posts opened a conversation about the musings I found in 4.5 days while eating my way through Portland. I took my friend Bianca on a girls' trip to that west coast city to dig into their diverse culinary scence and other extracurriculrs a...
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- Caribbean
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- Cuba
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- The Americas
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- Travel
JetBlue Flies Commercial Flight to Cuba, the First in Over 50 Years and I Was Onboard
It was 11:58 am on Friday morning and I still had to park somewhere near 16th St. The Cuban Embassy, open for official government business only 15 months, closes at noon. I parked, illegally, and ran fast enough to burn off breakfast. I walked up to the ga...
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- Cooking Recipes
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- Food
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- Poultry
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- Savory
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- Tonight's Dinner
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- TV & Videos
Bren on CBS “Great Day Washington”: Labor Day & Fall Dishes with Sabra Hummus New Bottled Spreads
Bren was invited back on "Great Day Washington" (CBS) for a Labor Day cooking segment to share with and teach host Chris Leary some delicious and easy ways of incorporating Sabra Hummus' new bottle spreads into healthier fall foods. She also offers some s...
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- Cooking Recipes
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- Food
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- Main Dishes
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- Meat
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- Poultry
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- Tonight's Dinner
Labor Day Chicken & Chorizo Tacos with Garlic Herb Sabra Hummus Spread
I'm over summer. Have been for about 3 weeks. It's too hot and too humid, everywhere. It's standard sexy appeal as been far absent. I'm all for fall coming and staying for an extended visit simply to make up for the days of searing sun leaving me depleted ...
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- Food
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- Oregon
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- Tasty Travels
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- Travel
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- US
Keeping Portland Deliciously Weird: A Seekender Duo’s Culinary Exploits
Of all the cities I’ve not visited in the U.S., Portland, OR has been on my active radar for a few years now. Mostly inspired by a fellow foodie I met on Facebook years ago, I had this insatiable desire to get to know this west coast diners' town. His bio on...
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{B Fly} Keeping You Beautiful While Traveling This Summer
The makeup I travel with is just as important as the beauty stash I pack. It's on the the essentials, especially when the trip is more concerned with appearance than relaxing in the most natural way. Regardless of the nature of my trip, wether with clients o...
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{B Fly} Skin & Hair Protectants For Summer Travel
I just came back from 5 delicious days in northern Idaho where I was exploring their wine country -- yes, you totally read that right; see some Instagrams here -- and indulged in some that region's best cuisine. I can't tell you how splendid it was intermixi...
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- Cooking Recipes
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- Fish
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- Food
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- Main Dishes
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- Savory
A Good Blackened Salmon Sandwich…That Could be Umami
Some staple foods and ingredients highly benefit from their simple integrity and beg minimal altering. Salmon is one of those foods. It's one of the fattiest fishes you can get, rendering it succulent and flavorful. Sometimes, all you really need is salt, ...
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