Feta, Avocado & Homemade Mayonnaise Torta
Everyone has some sort of comfort food. Some people love cakes for soothing comfort; others love chicken noodle soup or a hearty chili. For me, it’s…
Category: Latin
Stuffed Chayote with Carne Molida | Caribbean Squash with Ground Beef
How do you decide which recipes to make daily or on special occasions? What sparks your interest? A good photo? A mouth-watering description in a cookbook? The…
Ohio’s Edible Surprises
Going back to Ohio this year at the cusp of summer’s end and the start of fall was a really blessed opportunity to appreciate what’s…
Quick Pickled Peppers
I’ve been really enjoying my time in Ohio among all the backyard gardeners in my family and in our neighborhood. Needless to say, I have…
Blueberry Paletas
If you live in Chicago, Los Angeles, anywhere in Mexico or near a large Mexican population you’ve probably heard of paletas. If you haven’t heard,…
Summer Guava Drink
I grew up drinking guava nectar, my first real introduction being rare, but exciting trips to a Puerto Rican corner store with my mother. She would spoil me…
Hangar Steak with Mango Salsa
A great summer dish to leave you satisfied and refreshed all at once this hangar steak can be grilled indoors or out. Prepare the salsa first…
Black Beans Without the Lard
This is just one of the ways I make them. You can start from this recipe and shake things up with your own favorite additions. Let me know what you do…
Fried Yucca
If you’ve never heard of yucca before, you heard about it here first! Also known as cassava or manioc, yucca is a tuberous, hardy and…
Rosa Mexicano in New York City: Authentic Urban Mexican Food Done Right
Restaurant recommendations can go a long way, but I always take them with a grain of salt. One never knows how another person’s taste…
A Chocolate Drink Three Ways
One of the first pages I opened in the book Chocolate Desserts by Pierre Hermé, written by Dorie Greenspan, was a recipe for Hot Chocolate…
Sweet Tomato Preserve
I. Love. Tomatoes. Being Sicilian, you sort of have to or you may never eat. Ok, that’s a bit extreme, I realize. All jokes aside, I really…
Tomatillo Salsa
What a difference homemade salsa is from the store-bought counterparts. I recently made this salsa recipe for the first Halal Test Kitchen event where I was able…
Pollo En Escabeche: Marinated Chicken From Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula
The word ‘escabeche’ comes from the Arabic word ‘sikiube’, which means ‘acid’, and is a method for light pickling. In Mexico, escabeches combine vinegar with…
Homemade Sofrito and Recaito
If you come from a Puerto Rican family, you understand that Goya products are permanent fixtures in our kitchen cabinets- without them it seems like…
Shrimp Taquitos
I can’t think of anything better to do on a rainy Saturday afternoon than to spend time learning how to make traditional foods from our…
Mexican Dulces
One of the best things about other people traveling instead of you is that they usually bring back some lovely samplers of the local culture…
Halal Tamales
I met a Mexican woman, Mari, from the southern part of Mexico City who now lives in Chicago’s Little Village. Mari makes the tamales in…
