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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Desserts
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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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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The Perfect Pear: Tequila Poached Pear with a Cactus Pear Coulis
With the Super Bowl in the rear-view mirror, it is time to turn off football and turn on a sexy dessert. Valentine’s Day is upon us, but this recipe for Tequila Poached Pears with a Cactus Pear Coulis cannot be restrained to the short month of February. Poaching pears is a surprisingly easy affair and a delicious seductive treat. This sinful dessert can be made...
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Sweeten Your Valentine with Peruvian Alfajores de Amor
There’s no better way to woo the love of your heart than with sweet delights. The popular Peruvian Alfajor cookie, a dense and crumbly sweetened biscuit, has a number of sweet fillings. Some are dipped in chocolate and rolled in crushed nuts. Others are triple stacked or served in “log” form. Whichever version you prefer, we have a fairly easy recipe that will be the hit of your...
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French Hearts From a Latin Kitchen: Palmiers
You may know them as: French hearts, pig’s ears, butterflies, palm leaves, elephant ears, glasses, or simply as Palmiers, this little treat will have your Valentines’ heart aflutter. Whether you are busy planning the perfect 12 course meal to seduce your Valentine or pondering peddling your soul for the most exclusive Valentines Day dinner reservation for two, why not skip the hoops and roll right into a classic. Palmiers...
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Guest Post: Rochelle Palermo Shares Her Pan Dulce Recipe
Editor’s Note: We cannot say enough how honored we are to have recipe developer and food editor to some of best and brightest chefs in the world share exclusively with LatinoFoodie readers her pan dulce recipe. I had the opportunity to work with Rochelle Palermo during and after culinary school. At this point Rochelle has tested, written, and developed recipes for top-shelf cookbooks and magazines,...
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