5 years ago
All posts by Bren Herrera
Not S.A.D. After All & A Super Sexy Tequila and Patron Café XO Cocktail
How was your Valentine's!? Did you indulge yourself in all the best chocolate and bubbly there was to enjoy? Did you eat glamorous food you don't usually attempt to cook or go out to eat really pricey but worth it cuisine?
Or did you simply relish in the be...
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Bay Leaf/Hoja de Laurel
This aromatic leaf is originally from the Mediterranean and yields from the evergreen laurel tree, hence it's name. It's typically used in Latin cuisine when flavoring most meats (carne ripiada) poultry dishes (pollo en fricasse) and soups and broths (caldos)...
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An Affair With Spirits {A Lover’s Occassion}
I'm kind short for words today. Have lots of the mind and I'm cooking dinner for a group of single friends tonight in just a few hours! But, in recognition of the biggest and most commercialized day to lovers, here's a drink you can make and sip on tonight w...
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Araya Chocolate. The Gift For the Person That Has Everything!
This is a bit of an unconventional "Real Chef Talk" series as our guest and I spoke in Spanish during the entire interview. I figured most of you wouldn't have been able to enjoy it, so I just translated what we chatted about! Either way, enjoy what this bus...
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#FLANFRIDAYS: 9 Spice Rum & Ginger Flan: Serious Love.
It's #FlanFridays and you know what that means!! A new flavor to woo and get you all giddy about custards and, uhm, pressure cooking. I've neglected to talk about my affair with the cooker for a while now, and still will leave it for another post, because......
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A Fluffy Breakfast With Cup of Joe to Make Your Heart Throb
Last week I raved about the amazing and super healthy steel cut Irish oats. In that post I made it a point to suggest how important a healthy breakfast is crucial to a vibrant life.I deviated from the road of perfectly nutritious options in light of the bi...
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Chic Foodies & Wine {GIVEAWAY!} | Flanboyant Eats™: Latin Fusion Cooking & Tasty Travels Under Pressure!™
Happy Humpday and as in Twitterland says it #WinedownWednesday! This post is so apropos for the occassion!So, I'm not sure that I'm talked in detail of my full-time job as a food writer and private chef! It's really a delicious life! I get to eat all k...
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Flanboyant Eats v.4 & Wine {GIVEAWAY!}
(Spring at Piedmont Park, Atlanta)
Spring is on the way! Spring is on the way! Can you believe it? It's still a bit chilly here in Atlanta, but I'm envisioning all the loveliness and coquettish gestures that naturally come with warmer weather.
This week is...
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Rose Petal Risotto & Oysters For Valentine’s Day
Typically I shy away from engaging in Valentine’s Day activities. I don’t even like acknowledging the day. I do realize that our culture relishes in all the decadent and sexy goodness that comes with it: Dark and velvety chocolate, flowers, perfume or cologn...
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Getting My Happy Back: Spa Treatments & Wine {And Giveaway!}
do you ever feel like you want to throw it all up in the air and go back to what you know!??! That's where I am right now. Won't bore you here with what my life 10 years ago used to be like, but in retrospect it was easy. I was in love. I traveled with the...
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