I grew up with a Puerto Rican dad and an Italian mom. This meant a few things including an excessive amount of garlic in everything. My mom says my paternal grandmother came to stay with my parents immediately after their wedding to teach her how to cook Spanish dishes, which my mother continues to do [...]
Archive for June, 2008
You say Potatoe, I say Potato…
Posted in Uncategorized on June 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Spanish Homefries & Italian Potato Salad
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bbq, garlic, Home Fries. potato, Italian, Potato Salad, spanish on June 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
These are rough estimates- add as much or as little of what you like.
Homefries-
Ingredients (based on 4 servings)
4 Potatoes! ( I prefer red skinned ones)
1 Small Onion diced ( I also like red onion)
1 Poblano Pepper chopped (1 small Bell Pepper is fine if you prefer)
1 Clove of Garlic chopped
1 Tablespoon of Olive Oil
1 1/2 [...]
Healthy Snack!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged healthy, popcorn, seasoning on June 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Seasoned popcorn. Make a bag of any sort of low calorie low fat popcorn and spice it up by shaking it with Cajun seasoning, lemon pepper seasoning, cinnamon & sugar, Tabasco sauce, Italian seasoning, curry powder, or cocoa powder. Just pop, and toss or shake. My favorite salty one is the Cajun while cinnamon & sugar wins for [...]
S’more, more, more…how do you like it?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bbq, chocolate, dessert, marshmallows, s'mores, summer on June 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When I was in middle school my dad built a cinder fire pit in our backyard next to our pool. His intention was to slow roast whole pigs during cook outs in the style of his Puerto Rican upbringing. Apparently, he never ran this idea past my mother because the pig roasts were very short [...]
Conversations with a Barista
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged caramel, coffee, Starbucks on June 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Me: Hi. May I have a venti iced coffee with caramel sauce please?
Barista: Iced venti iced coffee with…Do you mean caramel syrup or caramel sauce?
Me: No, no. I mean caramel sauce. Caramel sauce, please- the thick one that comes out of the squeezy bottle.
Barista: Hmmmm…caramel sauce. That’s good, that’s good, that’s-well- indulgent.
Me: Yeah. It is.
This is [...]
Fall into Summer
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged apple, butter, cinnamon, fall, pasta, squash, sweet, walnut on June 13, 2008 | 3 Comments »
This weekend I found myself with some roasted butternut squash on my hands. The concept of squash in pasta seemed so distinctly fall to me that I immediately felt seasonally disoriented. I am however, not the kind of lady to say no in the face of unexpected vegetable and carb goodness. What [...]
