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Food (10 posts found)
{Chic Taping} Day 2 & Some Irony, Again?
HulaGirl owner and me after filming that segment. Aloha! C/O camerawoman. Waiting for direction. Tasting cupcakes! The waiting game is always fun!So, remember ...
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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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{Chic Taping} Old D.C., New D.C. & Irony
Intro.I was raised in Washington, D.C.-- well, the super-close subs -- 6 miles from downtown. I used to work in corporate America, a typical, but intense 9-7 career, making great money and living a pretty fabulous life. My world was repl...
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- Cuba
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- La Cocina Cubana
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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Papi’s Sangria For Super Steamy Days
It's Viernes and I have no flan for you. I've got 4 ridiculous flavors in the works but we'll have to sit tight til I get it together. Life is loca these days with exciting haps on every front. So, today it's all about something cold, fruity, sexy an...
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- Food
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- Fusion
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- Poultry
Rustic Macaroni Chicken & Apple Salad
I grew up eating a lot of macaroni salads. Mami would make them for every single occasion, no matter how big or small, eventful or not. It was the staple main dish [for fiestas, cumpleaños, and the like]. Bocaditos de pollo always accompanied the varying sal...
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Mint/Yerba Buena
Used in the Latin kitchen mostly for its medicinal properties, mint has many uses in global cuisines. In our house, we've always used it as a boiled "tea"for an upset stomach and indigestion. Of course, our most popular culinary use of mint is for the ubiquit...
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