My first year at my current job, I was amazed at the massive influx of mangoes during mango season. It was like homeowners couldn’t get rid of them fast enough. That’s how Mango Madness was born, and Mango Season every year since then has been dedicated to mango-fying anything that I can think of. Mango
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Pressure Cooker Red Enchilada Sauce
One of my favorite things to get at Mexican/Tex-Mex eateries is a burrito smothered in sauce. Depending on the place, it’s either red sauce or green sauce, but definitely red sauce over green. A friend of mine has been trying to recreate the red sauce from her favorite Mexican eatery. While this recipe wasn’t an exact
Mango Upside Down Cake
Skip to Recipe Mango season is in full swing, and the creative juices are flowing! Trying to figure out what to make with mango every year is often a challenge. Often, however, an idea just pops into my head that makes me say “Why the heck didn’t I think of that before!?” That was the
Red Velvet Lava Cake
Another Fourth of July, approaches. In addition to another year to celebrate our nation’s independence, it’s yet another reason to eat things that are red, white, blue, or a combination of all three. Normally, this means flag cakes or tri-color jello molds, but I am thinking out of the box this year. I’m thinking red
Buffalo Shrimp and Blue Cheese Grits
Skip to recipe Shrimp and grits are something that I have only recently tried, and was pretty ambivalent towards. I guess it just didn’t click because it’s not something that I grew up eating. But, during a conversation at work one day, we were talking about what foods could and could not be made “buffalo-style,”
Pressure Cooker Coffee Dulce de Leche
Dulce de leche is basically the product of sweetened milk that is cooked until it darkens and thickens. Dulce de leche, or arequipe as it’s known in Colombia, is getting more and more popular in the US. And, with more households investing in a pressure cooker or Instant Pot, making it at home has never been
Peach Compote
Since getting my Instant Pot, I have discovered how easy it is to make yogurt at home. I make about two weeks’ worth of yogurt at a time and portion it out in jar to take to work with me. Sometimes, I add fresh fruit, but more frequently I eat it with fruit compote. Peach
Pressure Cooker Snickers Cheesecake
Skip to Recipe Oh, if there were any two words sweeter than “Snickers Cheesecake,” I can’t think of them right now. All I can say that, after making this only once, it became a favorite. How can you really go wrong with cheesecake with a chocolate crust and chunks of Snickers floating in there!? I
Pressure Cooker Irish Cream Flan
This is a haphazard post. I hadn’t really been planning on posting this recipe to the blog, but I have had a lot of requests for Irish Cream Flan recipe that I just couldn’t refuse. The public asks, and I deliver. 🙂 For some reason, I have been on a Bailey’s kick lately, so I’ve been
Pumpkin and Cheese Pastries (Pastelitos)
Skip to Recipe Pumpkin and cheese (cream cheese, to be specific) is one of those combinations that sounds weird if you have never tried it, but works incredibly well. So, pumpkin and cheese pastries (or pastelitos, as we call them down my way) seemed like a win for me. Lightly sweetened pumpkin puree and soft