Tomatillo, or “little tomato” in Spanish, is only related to the tomato by being in the nightshade family of flowering plants, but tomatillos are more closely related to ground-berries and Cape gooseberries. With that in mind, tomatillos like Cape gooseberries and Chinese lantern berries, have a paper-like husk which the berry grows into. The husk […]
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*This is a sponsored post for Olive Garden’s Cucina Mia menu. All thoughts and opinions expressed are our own. Hosting friends and family can be an intimidating task. You primp and preen, tweak and tease, hustle and flow just to provide a fun atmosphere and a delicious meal, so that you and your guests can […]
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Cajeta (pronounced cah-heh-tah) is a silky smooth Mexican caramel similar to dulce de leche. The one big difference, and the thing that sets cajeta apart from regular caramel and dulce de leche is the type of milk used. Most traditional caramels use cow’s milk, while cajeta is made from goat’s milk, or even from half […]
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Cookbook Review: L.A. Son: My Life, My City, My Food By Roy Choi I have been stuck between the pages of Salman Rushdie’s autobiography and another biography about Jack Kerouac, that I have neglected my cookbooks. We started this food blog to highlight food and culture, and for me that includes books. So I snatched […]
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LatinoFoodie is featured in a new e-cookbook and couldn’t be more thrilled as Mo’ Macaroni and Cheese has some amazing recipes, including our own. When we started blogging about three years ago, I never expected the work to be a “social” force in my life. Let’s face it, blogging can get a little lonely. A […]
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Happy Mother’s Day to all the mommies in our lives! Between writing the cards and sending the flowers, make sure mama has something good to eat, too! If you plan on cooking for your darling mama this weekend, here is a simple and light grilled salmon recipe with red chimichurri sauce. We were inspired by Olive Garden’s […]
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Saturday’s sun scorched down on us as we waited for our bus at Union Station. Destination? Rancho Cucamonga. Yes, that same hillside where a wild fire scorched thousands of acres just a week earlier. We didn’t know what to expect. Was the air going to be thick as molasses and hard to breathe? It was […]
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We are proud to announce LatinoFoodie’s first collaboration with the Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA) in Long Beach for its “A Taste of Cinco de Mayo” Festival on Sunday, May 4 from 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. You can expect fun family activities, live mariachi and folklorico dancers, vendors, a beer and tequila garden and […]
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I had been reading about local chefs and restaurants serving fruit-infused tequilas and mescals and immediately started to think about how I can use that flavor in a dessert. That was the inspiration for this Tequila Roasted Mango Fool Dessert. A fruit fool (or foole) is a traditional English dessert made with custard and pureed stewed […]
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California pepper fig salsa spears. Quinoa salad with roasted cauliflower and figs. Mission figs sausage sliders. Grilled cheese with fig-onion jam. Griddled fig and prosciutto. Filet mignon with spiced fig Not Ketchup. Lamb daube with orange zest and California Figs. Hot damn! Clarissa Dickson Wright, of Two Fat Ladies fame, wrote, “I’m often in a […]
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