Arroz con Gandules | Puerto Rican Rice with Pigeon Peas
I grew up eating arroz con gandules, that quintessential rice dish that every Puerto Rican family has their own version of making. Most of the time it…
Category: Puerto Rican
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…
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…
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 starchy…
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…