Skip to Recipe I snagged a ridiculously good sale on passion fruits recently. So good, in fact, that I drove to four different participating store locations to grab up whatever passion fruits I could. Worth every penny, and it gave me room to start making things with passion fruit that I have wanted to make
Skip to Recipe For this month’s meeting of the South Florida Baking Club, I decided on “Flowers and Chocolate” as the theme. Basically, your creation should incorporate flowers or chocolate. Since I’m a little nuts, I decided to do BOTH. And, before realizing how I had shot myself in the foot with that idea, these
Thai food is one of those things that I THOUGHT that I dislike, until friends started dragging me to Thai restaurants with them. This was before I figured out that I don’t hate coconut milk when it’s in curry form, but Thai food eventually grew on me. Now that I’m back on a diet and
Skip to Recipe I know, I know…there are a million and one recipes out there for egg bites. This was why I hesitated to post a recipe for a while. But, last week a coworker forgot her breakfast at home, so I offered her some of my egg bites. She recently started a diet, and
Skip to Recipe Meatloaf is not really a big thing in Hispanic households. Growing up, my exposure to meatloaf was mainly through frozen dinners or from visiting American friends’ houses. In fact, here I am at the ripe old age of 37 and had NEVER even made a meatloaf before. But, because I’m me, I
Skip to Recipe Arroz con Fideos (rice with noodles) was something that my mother used to make all of the time when I was growing up. It was a staple at our Thanksgiving table every year. Eventually, she also started making it outside of holidays because we liked it so much. Making rice was never
Skip to Recipe The name Coquito literally translates to “Little Coconut.” In Miami, though, Coquito means “Christmas is here.” This coconut-based alcoholic drink originated in Puerto Rico. It’s a popular drink to have around the holidays, and pretty much all Latinos in Miami have adopted it as a holiday staple. If I’m ever a loss
For years, I have been making Irish cream around the holidays and giving it away as gifts. I don’t remember how exactly it is that I happened across the original recipe. But, over time, I tweaked the Irish Cream recipe to suit my own taste buds, and it always well-received by the recipients. This holiday,
Skip to Recipe After I learned how to make turkey stock using my Instant Pot, I was thrilled. At the time, though, I had no idea what to do with my newfound stash of turkey stock. I came across a turkey soup recipe that caught my eye. I had been low-carbing it for a while,
Once upon a time, before the magic of pressure cookers, my turkey carcasses went in the trash after the turkey was carved. Seeing the craze with making “bone broth” and stocks at home, though, I decided to give it a go. After my first batch of turkey stock, I vowed never to let a turkey