a crazy little Latina, stirring up trouble in her little cocina
When your favorite Japanese restaurant is closed due to an imposed statewide lock-down. What do you do? Make the food yourself! These chicken drumsticks that are so good you will forget any other drumstick recipe! Beautifully browned, richly flavored, juicy and fall-off-the-bone tender. These baked drumsticks are a hit every time. Delicious and so addictive! […]
With the end of summer approaching what better way to say goodbye than with a clam bake? The following recipe is my own twist to the traditional baked clams. This simple dish using Latin herbs such as cilantro, culantro, roasted garlic and her a give this dish an amazing aromatic Latin flair that brings you […]
Hi Everyone!!! Last night I had a dream I was back home in Puerto Rico sipping Coconut Mojitos. ::sigh:: I WISH!!! I’ve been so busy lately, I haven’t had time for travel at all. Well, at least I won’t let work stop me from eating as if I were on vacation! 😀 I had this […]
NOT YOUR MOM’S LASAGNA! Here is a great recipe for a Puerto Rican Pastelon made from platno maduros (sweet plantains) My grandmother’s recipe to be exact. Whenever we visited my abuelita in Philly, she would make this dish and have it waiting for us when we arrived. My grandmothers recipe is not to be confused […]
Hi Everyone! I have been BEGGING my mom to make her DEE-Licious encebollado for a couple of years now. I’ve come to the conclusion that her stove may have run away from home and afraid she might be living on microwavable food since not even my sisters have been graced with the presence of one […]
Ceviche… Just the word alone does things to me. Childhood memories take over my mind, my mouth starts to water, I can immediately taste and smell without the dish being in front of me. The word Ceviche is just as sexy as the dish itself. Growing up, my mother would wake up early in the […]
This Recipe Was Proudly Featured On NBC Latino’s – Food Blogs We Love One of my favorite dishes since I was a kid was my mothers pollo guisado. If I told you that my sisters and I use to fight like animals for the wings would you believe me? You better, because the claws came out as […]
Hello Again, They say that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. For some of us, we just don’t have the time. Somewhere I read about egg cups. I don’t remember exactly where… But I just gazed at the article and stored it in my memory bank. These little devils of yumminess can […]
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