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Cooking Recipes (10 posts found)
#FlanFridays on Monday: Mission Fig
This summer has been epically life-changing. I moved back to D.C. with no planning or real thought. I gained five pounds (a lot for this super petite chica) and lost it back after an aggressive conversation with my alter ego and taking up flying trapeze, ...
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High Tea in a Cuban House
Our mission in the 5 Star Makeover group this month was to create a virtual high tea hour as most in the UK have traditionally enjoyed in centuries past. According to Wikipedia (enter eye roll), high tea or light meals were served between 5 & 7 pm, in or...
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Agua de Jamaica {Hibiscus Tea Water}
One of the special things about visiting Mexico is their consistency: stellar customer service, food, cocktails and street treats. And agua de Jamiaca or hibiscus tea water, of course. There's a story of how I became friendly with the fresh water drink.E...
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Espresso Shots & The Perfect Espumita
(café con leche at 7 am on the deck via my Instagram)
In an email exchange just a few minutes ago, I told the other party to make the best out of today. It's Monday. Their response was quite clever: meh, Monday is just Friday's late/early cousin. I got to t...
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Dominican Mangú and a Typical Breakfast
If you follow me on Twitter and Instagram, hopefully I enticed you with my Caribbean ventures the past 10 days. I was in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic doing some social media work with a few other bloggers and writers. Since I straddle the fence in the ...
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Apricot Kuchen Recipe {A Guest Post}
(Photo c/o Chrystal Baker)
Hey, friends! Let's keep it truly real for a moment. I haven't had time to blog this week at all. Life on the islands has called and I'm tending to jumping off 40 feet waterfalls in the mountains of the Caribbean. That left me i...
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Jeni’s Splendid Ice Cream. Deliciousness All Year-Round at Home {Cookbook Review}
I'm usually late to the party. Fashionably late, by design. Barring a serious shoe dilemma which has been known to cause hourly setbacks, there's never a really good excuse. So, no surprise I missed the national ice cream party last month all together. Yes, ...
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#FlanFridays: My Faves
I've made about 20 flans this week, so I need to take a breve break from all cream and caramel that's taken over my kitchen in the last few days. The smells have put me into a coma and if I smell any more, I swear the pounds will pack on to the very thighs...
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#FlanFridays: Mojito
¡Hola! It's Friday and another flan creation for you. This one, though I was completely against the flavor, was a special request by a young Latino doing some fun, cultural things in the East coast... a road trip of sorts. His last stop is D.C. and in talk...
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Nitza Villapol, La Cocina Criolla & Arroz con Leche or a Rice Pudding Recipe
I used to think people that collect cookbooks have nothing better to do. Please, friends, take no offense to that gross assumption. It was me. I didn't know better. I didn't get it. I thought that owning cookbooks meant lack of creativity, thus t...
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