5 years ago
Food (10 posts found)
Rosehips
Did you know rose hips are the reddish-orange fruit of the rose and are used to make jellies, jams syrup, tea and vino!? They're solid in vitamin C and can be made into a dried powder.
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Introducing the "KISS Bee" Martini!
Don't you want this right now! Stare at this martini long enough, and you will be making one before you go to bed tonight.One of the best things about the classic show "Cheers," was the theme song. You really don't think it will apply to your social life...
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Verizon Fios TV Cooking Segment
Verizon Fios TV features me as a local foodie and allows me to talk about what inspires me. I prepare a Latin inspired dish for for the network in my DC home. March, 2009.
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New Blog Look, New Projects & Washington Post Guest Writing Today!
Hola! Hello! Bienvenue! Buongiorno! Guten Tag! Hej! Habari! Okay, don't mean to get carried away, but I'm feeling very global today. I wish I was in Cuba right now. Monday was a very, very sad day for my family, but as Maya Angelou recites, "still I (we) ris...
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SOFRITO & The Holy Trinity Of Cuban Cuisine
I recently engaged someone, another foodie, on the Holy Trinity of Cuban food. I said onion, garlic and cumin. They said onion, garlic and green pepper. I even underscored my argument by saying that J. Lo's executive chef, Don Rolando, agrees with my version...
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Carrot & Roasted Walnut W/Ginger Salad + Winner of Science of Good Food!
I love being creative.It's just what I do. I find little time to get bored, but when I do, I sit back and accept the drudgery of my state of mind and maybe, just maybe, eat about 4 cups of green tea ice cream.(this is only relevant because I recently...
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A Balanced Out Convo With Michael Ruhlman About Ratios!
For months now I've been developing a new section of the blog where I merge my published writing based on interviews of major food players (chefs, writers, resto owners, TV personalities, etc..). But, life calls, trips are thrown at me and then I'm just pure ...
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I'm Going To Be on Daytime TV! Oh & The New Lemonade!
It's Thursday and I'm Excited!This coming weekend is huger than huge has been in a while! The "Social Butterfly" for the Atlanta Journal Constitution (AJC) just hired me to cook for her sassy dinner party on Saturday! The menu is luscious for real, but the ...
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The Science of Good Food is For You Curious Foodies, So I'm Having a Contest!
Cookbooks were not something I was into until 3 years ago. The only attachment I had to them, if you even want to to call it that, was my visit to the bookstore and browsing through Cuban and Latin ones. That was 10 years ago.
And then something happened. I s...
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Nachos Libre!
I'm really tired of the swine flu scare, frenzy, bru-haha, the media has conjured up! I've read some of the most vile and hateful things being said about Mexican people--yeah the ones that keep this country clean and manicured and share their culture and foo...
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