Game Day Salsa
Isn’t it just so great when you go to a tailgate party or to someone’s house to watch “the game” and they have a cold, savory salsa for dip with chip?? We NEVER go out. I’m such a stay at home...
View ArticleIn Jamaica They Call It “Fish Tea”
WOW. I just made the most outrageous, EASY, and fast, fish soup!!! I’m trying to cool down with a HUGE ice-cold, crisp Pinot Grigio!! And, thankfully, it’s working. It rained a bit today, the...
View ArticleHot Stuff
Happy Birthday to me! Today is the day of my birth and, in celebration, my gift to YOU is a brilliant, green Chilean hot sauce; bright, fresh and intense in flavor called Pebre. It is our family...
View ArticleCilantro Rice will Save the Dinner
Why is it every time we finish preparing dinner, eating dinner then cleaning up from dinner, it seems we have to start all over again; from deciding what to have, to making a list, assembling the...
View ArticleSofrito
The base of all the best Puerto Rican dishes is sofrito, a brilliant blend of onion, pepper, garlic, cilantro and culantro. I can’t believe in the five years I’ve been writing this blog I haven’t...
View ArticleMexican Chopped Salad with a Creamy Cilantro Dressing
Being that we’re having summer weather here in south Florida we’re well into our salads. All my friends who grew up here are salad people, obsessed with cold, crunchy, live food. Weekends and summers...
View ArticleCilantro Lime Shrimp Bowls
Lent has started for many of us and so begins a modest way to eat, a more reflective period. A time, at least for me, of more prayer and even a little fasting. It actually feels good once you’ve...
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