One of the things I loved that my grandmother made was Albondiga Soup, which is a meatball soup made with ground beef, rice, tomatoes, onions, cilantro, mint, carrots and cumin. I love albondigas and making the meatballs is always fun. It’s the perfect soup for a cold day and kids love it because of the [...]
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I recently came across an amazing little book called Poems from the Table: The Fruits of the Earth in Verse at my favorite local book store Read Books. It really is the most marvelous little bookstore with the nicest people running it. The book I found is filled with poetry about food by some of [...]
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I am a taquito making machine. I can produce 100s of the little flute-shaped delicious finger foods in the shortest amount of time. I’m not quite sure why that is, maybe having four hungry and growing kids who always asked for taquitos (and they were hungry ALL the time) had something to do with it. [...]
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Rachel especially loves these fragrant little roasted potatoes with the herbal taste of rosemary and a slight zing from fresh lemon zest and lemon juice. I think you will too. I love to make them because they are easy to make and taste so good with just about anything. They are especially good with chicken. [...]
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One of the traditions I started in my family was the New Year’s Eve Buñelos. I love buñelos the way my grandmother Lupe made them, crispy and airy; bubbly and delicate. She always made them during Lent (no idea why, but I’m sure there’s a particular reason) and she always made rich, delicious miel (Spanish [...]
It’s New Year’s Eve and I’m spending a very mellow evening at home with my grandchildren Jasmine and Aiden while their mom is working. We went for a lovely walk in the sunshine to the market to buy ingredients for tonight’s dinner and had a great time doing so. Jasmine was excited to see that [...]
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