I've been making homemade ketchup for several years, but it wasn't until a few days ago that I realized I haven't actually shared any of those recipes here. (...)
Coffee coquito puerto rican coffee-flavored coconut eggnog
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I first shared my recipe for Puerto Rican Coquito (aka our traditional coconut "eggnog") two years ago, and it's since become one of the most popular recipes (...)
Homemade rum cake recipe with tortuga rum cake flavor
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My recipe for Homemade Rum Cake started with a shopping spree at TJ Maxx. See...sometime back in November I made the mistake of buying a tiny box of Tortuga (...)
While cleaning out my freezer the other day, I found a bag of raw hazelnuts leftover from a homemade condiments cooking class I taught a couple months ago. We (...)
I just got back last night from a week in Mexico where I was covering the Cancun-Riviera Maya Food & Wine Festival, as well as checking out some (STUNNING!) (...)
My beautiful friend Katie sent me an email a few weeks ago suggesting that I make and write a post about Pizzagaina, the Italian meat and cheese pie (...)
I made this homemade saffron aioli for the first time last month while helping out a chef friend with prep for a dinner he was cooking. "Do you know how to (...)
I can barely believe it, but we’re starting to creep closer and closer to the Fall and Winter holiday season. Halloween and Dia de los Muertos decorations are (...)
Rum Cake has long been my favorite type of Christmas treat. When we were kids, my dad used to pick up a cake from a local health food restaurant to serve with (...)
There are few dishes more crowd-pleasing than a giant platter of piping hot crispy chicken wings. Whether sticky and sweet or spicy and saucy, they're just one (...)
Ahh...sticky toffee pudding. The name was enough to make me a fan even before I tried it.I was in Edinburgh for my best friend's wedding the first time I (...)
When I was in college in DC, my best friend Ilana and I used to have a standing Thursday night dinner date at a restaurant near our campus called Bertucci's.If (...)
Pink Prosecco Cake with Chocolate Truffle Frosting
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I celebrated my 35th birthday this past weekend with this sparkly gold & pink dream of cake. It's a classic moist vanilla cake made with prosecco and Chambord (...)
Orange and smoked paprika marinated pork loin roast
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Most of my favorite recipes start in the blender. I throw things in, puree until smooth, and then cook. It's the best way of getting maximum flavor with (...)
Pan-seared chilean sea bass with blood orange butter sauce
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I was excited to see blood oranges show up at the grocery store again. It had been a while and I missed them. Dinner formed itself around the arrival of this (...)
The other day, I went to three different grocery stores looking for frozen puff pastry shells. I needed them for an appetizer I wanted to make, but couldn't (...)
It takes about 5 minutes to pull this ridiculously easy Corn and Black Bean Salsa Salad together, but the final dish is one of those that's surprisingly good. (...)
It started with this perfect plum, which I saw hanging in a tree out back behind the house. We'd only just arrived at our home for the weekend, but I was (...)
Eugene and I recently spent a few days in southern Italy, eating our way around Naples and the Amalfi Coast. Though I lived and studied in Tuscany when I was (...)
A few days ago I got a message from a reader, Amber, who was looking for some healthy on-the-go breakfast ideas to serve her kids who are heading back to (...)
The traditional centerpiece of the Puerto Rican Christmas Eve (or "Noche Buena") table, is Pernil--a marinated pork shoulder that's roasted slowly in the oven (...)
The desserts on my fake-Thanksgiving table were a bit more colorful than the usual shades of orange and um...pecan that usually fill the holiday table. But as (...)
