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Cooking Recipes (10 posts found)
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#FlanFridays Special for Father’s Day. Sweet Corn Flan.
It's #FlanFridays! That means a new yummy flan that will tickle your taste buds and excite the senses. In this case, it's going to exploit all possibilities of perfect combinations.
Today's is going to be one inspired my dad. As American culture is celebrat...
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9 Spice Rum Banana Stuffed French Toast With Mango Maple Syrup
(rum spiced banana is what you see oozing out of the slice on the right!)
I suppose French toast is just French toast. Lots of eggs, some cinnamon, nutmeg, milk and butter… Oh and the bread of course. Nothing novel. Especially we if we carefully dust a pinc...
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Getting a Latina Girlfriend to Cook Real Food & a Fried Yuca Recipe
One of my first friends in Atlanta quickly became my closest confidant and go to chica. The bond was instantly made when I found out her background. She's Brazilian, born in New Jersey and raised in Miami. Not just in Miami, but Hialeah, the "Cuban of Cuban...
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#FLANFRIDAYS: A Mango Kiwi Dessert Better Than Bottled"Juice!"
When I come up with making a new flan, it's usually inspired by a "pow" flavor I experienced earlier in the week, an intoxicating seasonal ingredient or something sitting on my counter that needs attention before it dies on me. On the fun occasion, I'll ask ...
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Avocado & Edamame Salad With Dill For A Gourmet Picnic, Latin-Style
I grew up enjoying picnics at least twice a month. I looooooved everything about them. The grass stains, the endless food my siblings and I'd fight over, the flowers, the blue sky, the chilly yet soothing water (a requisite in choosing our spot) and the dow...
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A Strawberry & Ginger Sorbet Perfect for Steamy Weather
It's 95 degrees in Atlanta today. Why oh why! This little factoid is the purpose for today's post.
Sometime last year one of my lurkers commented and said he was so impressed to see the mini choco fudge cakes I made. He loved that I was playing around with ...
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Lemon Linguine Pasta Salad with Edible May Flowers
Last month I shared an amazing Mariage Freres Earl Grey Tea and biscotti combo that was wonderfully befitting for April showers. All that rain has bloomed amazing flowers, at least in my part of town.
In fact, just this past weekend I visited the Brookgreen ...
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A 60th Birthday, Mariachi’s & a Simple Spinach Artichoke Dip With Heat!
Our Mothers' Day weekend was so unbelievably incredible. Moreso because my mom turns 60 tomorrow. She and I love to entertain and host all kinds of shindigs, no matter how big or small, so something had to be planned. Papi, my siblings and I planned a huge...
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#FlanFridays: A Royal Wedding Edition Celebrating Traditions & Culture w/An Earl Grey & Thyme Flan
The Royal Wedding just occurred a few hours ago. I woke up and watched the entire madness, which I thoroughly enjoyed and tweeted like no other event. If you watched it, then you know it was all the pomp and circumstance expected from the Queen's land. Even ...
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Chilled White Asparagus & Ginger Soup W/Grilled Shrimp
Cooking at the 11th hour when you've committed to doing something special is no fun. Well, actually, it creates a challenge of sort--the type that causees me to snap at any one around me (at least in the physical), hit the "decline" button on my phone and ma...
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