Happy Teacher Appreciation Week! Educators have done much for us and continue to do much for the children of our communities. Take a moment and say thanks to one or all of the teachers in your life. This year, skip giving an apple to the teacher and get creative by baking this warm, spiced, sweet apple tart with a buttery pastry. The tropical twist of the mangoes will put a...
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Recipes
Cinco Recipes for Cinco de Mayo
Happy Cinco de Mayo from our kitchen to yours! Here are CINCO recipes to make your fiesta memorably delicious. Click on the photos below to get the recipe. And here are Cinco more recipes to round out the festivities!...
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Slow Cooked Shredded Pork with Chile Verde
Pork shoulder cooked so slow that it falls off the bone. Chile Verde that has the tartness from the tomatillos and limes and just the right amount of heat from the jalapeños and Serrano chiles. Add garlic and onions to the sauce with some chopped cilantro, marry the meat and sauce together, and you have magic in your mouth. It’s easily one of my favorite...
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Not Your Traditional Pan de Elote, This Sweet Corn Bundt Cake Delights
Pan de elote can be good, but corn pound cake can be divine. We recently had a small dinner party where corn was the focal point of our menu. With a traditional Elote en Vaso, or Corn in a Cup, as an appetizer, our green chile stuffed poblano peppers with a sweet nutmeg-spiced corn sauce as the entrée, and this sweet corn bundt cake as...
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Jalapeño Deviled Eggs
Here’s my Easter story: When I was about seven-years-old my mom thought it’d be a smart idea to hide the Easter eggs in the backyard before the family trotted off to church. All throughout mass I fidgeted, anxious to get home for the annual egg hunt. When we got home I got my empty egg carton and stood by the backdoor waiting for my older brothers,...
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Springtime Lamb Burgers with Rajas and Grilled Onions
Last week a reporter from TheBigTino, a new online news magazine covering Latino food, entertainment and arts, asked if he could come to our house to interview us for an upcoming feature story. We’re media whores so of course we said, yes, and “we’ll even cook you lunch!” Since Easter is quickly approaching, we tossed around a few ideas — deviled egg sandwiches, a new twist on...
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Artichoke Risotto
Artichokes are here! Well, these green globes are available year round but they are at their peak during Spring and Fall. We received a half dozen Globe Artichokes from our friends at Melissa’s Produce. We immediately thought about steaming them and dipping the leaves in melted butter before scraping the flesh off with our teeth. With an ample supply, we decided to hold off on...
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