5 years ago
Welcome LATINA Magazine Readers. Bienvenidos Lectores de 'LATINA'
If you've not heard or read, I just recently signed on as LATINA Magazine's Food Columnist. How exciting is that?!
To that end, les quiero dar la bienvenida a los que han llegado aquí a través de LATINA (I want to welcome all of my new readers that have found...
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Sugar Coma: An Atlanta Sweet Experience To Give You The Zees
Have you noticed how I've been writing about desserts a lot, as of late? I maintain an editorial calendar in order to keep some sense of schedule, amidst this loca vida I have. I try to space out my posts between restaurant reviews (3 of which are way late),...
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Guest Blogging Today On Dean & DeLuca’s ‘Gourmet Food Blog’ For Cinco de Mayo- Tequila Flan!
This week has been crazy busy, with all kinds of positive goodness, so I'm not complaining. But, Lord knows I need it because my pooch has been sick for the past two weeks with slipped discs in her back. And, that my friends, has me all frazzled out.
Notwiths...
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A New Gig, A New Diet & A Great Green Bean Recipe
Can you hardly believe it's MAY already? As I sit here and write (while mami yaps in vintage form---on speakersphone, saying 'bye' to her domino playing friends and asking me 3 times to hold on), I ponder all the great things that have already come to fruiti...
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How To Improvise & Host A Last Minute Birthday Dinner Party Without Sizzling Your Pocket!
One of the life-long lessons I continue to learn and diligently work at applying in my life, is being practical and not wasteful. My parents have taught me to eat everything on my plate in consideration for those less fortunate than ourselves. I didn't under...
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Eggplant
Eggplant is related to the tabacco plant and it contains an insignificant amount of nicotine. Cooling eggplant causes it to shrivel and brown rather quickly.
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Black Garlic
Black garlic originated in Korea. It's raw garlic that turns black when the sugars are drawn out of the garlic cloves during a special fermentation process. Most of the nutritional values in black garlic are higher & more potent than regular raw garlic.
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Ginger
A great way to preserve fresh ginger root is to cut it into smaller pieces and freeze. Keeping it in fridge or at room temperature will cause it to shrivel and dry faster.
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The Best Chocolate Chip Cookie Ever!
I've been on P90x for about 2 months now, on an off, doing it whenever I feel like I need to quickly see my abs and thighs as tight as a sprint runner. It really does work. I can only imagine what I'd really be able to accomplish if I followed it to the T and...
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