5 years ago
Best of My Arm Candy in 2013
I came to realize how much I love my mother's jewelry, C.B. Herrera Designs, more and more. In actuality, she started it 5 years ago to placate my love for bangles, "gangarias," as we Cubans call any and all kind of costume jewelry, and anything I fa...
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Cheesy Tequeños on New Year’s Eve
Cuban culture celebrates the end of the year and welcomes the new with a big ultra loud party full of friends, visiting family, vintage Cuban music intermixed with modern vibes, a gluttonous amount of classic Cuban food, and dancing. It's pretty epic. It's a...
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Drunken Buñuelos or Cuban Style Beignets
One of the best things about the holidays, other than seeing family and friends, and eating great food, is reconnecting with certain dishes and recipes you’ve lost touch with. In my case, there are plenty of foods that fall into that category. How that happe...
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Garlicky Lentil Soup…an Inspired Southern Version
'Twas the night before Christmas and I could think of was beans. Beans and more beans. It's the staple food in this casa. I was thinking of what my mom asked me to cook for our NocheBuena meal and it occurred to me I've never talked about brown lentils her...
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Peruvian Delights I Missed: Alfajores y Crema Volteada
In these last weeks of the year, I'm contemplating all the fabulous treats I didn't have a chance to make or even taste. There were so many exquisite things I had in my "to cook" queue which never even got flipped. With the solid 12 months I've been explo...
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{Holiday Bloom} B So Chic! Gift Guide to 3 Kings Day or Los Reyes Mago
I know, Christmas is still a week away and I'm already talking about 3 Kings Day or Los Reyes Mago, or Biblically known as The Epiphany, the day in which the 3 Wise Men visited and gifted baby Jesus. But it's right around the corner. January 6th.I ...
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- Food
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- Fusion
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- Main Dishes
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- Poultry
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- Sauces
Creamed Sun-dried Tomato Champagne Chicken
At least twice a year I go through this phase of cleaning my diet. Like really cleaning out my system and habits. I asses all the junk, though it's increasingly becoming less and less, and consider how I can better my health if I completely eliminate that ...
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Only One Time Square. Only One Broadway. {And a Saks 5th Ave Vid}
*I originally published this on January 9, 2011 in a super dormant blog bearing my name, right after Christmas, 2010, exactly 3 years ago. I decided to share it here since I no longer keep that blog and this was such a fun post. Not to mention it's that...
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- Cooking Recipes
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- Food
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- Main Dishes
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- Savory
Spicy Pupusa de Queso
Here's a story for you. My first job was working at the most authentic Mexican and Salvadoran restaurant in the DC area, 19 years ago. I don't think I've ever shared this key point. But, it was my first time in a commercial kitchen. I had an intimate and ...
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- French Inspired
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- Savory
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- Soups
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- Tonight's Dinner
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- Vegetarian
Classic French Onion Soup
Oh, the weather outside is frightful. A winter wonderland is my landscape at the moment. Icicles adorn the barren trees and glistening drops illuminate the pathway to our "open to all" curbside bench. Pine trees bend down with the weight of winter's elemen...
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