Where Cooking Meets Photography
If you’re not familiar with what tortas are, they’re a Mexican sandwich made with all sorts of different delicious fillings. The best part is that they can be eaten hot or cold, are extremely versatile and are made with the most incredible bread. If you’ve never had a Mexican bolillo, …
I’m such a sucker for snacks, you have no idea. I love them so much that I tend to go all out on the snacks themselves, and end up getting so full that I don’t have any room for dinner after that. It happens to me all the time, and …
The season 2 finale of Married and Hungry premiered this week, and the star of the show was this Arroz con Pollo. It is one of the recipes I make way too often, and yet I never get bored of it. It’s a one-skillet marvel, packed with a ton of …
A quick chicken pozole rojo is a soup I make on almost a weekly basis. Just in case you’re not familiar with pozole, it’s a Mexican soup made with hominy, and traditionally, with pork, but I use boneless chicken thighs to speed things up. The best part is the endless …
For those of you not familiar, Spumone (or Spumoni for plural) is a molded Italian gelato that is usually made with three different flavors, colors and mixed dried fruit and nuts. Typically the flavors are chocolate, cherry and pistachio. It’s sort of a spin-off of Neapolitan ice cream which is …
When I was in high school, I was involved in a culinary arts program called C-CAP, which helps kids learn about the restaurant industry and teaches them valuable information and techniques in order to work in the industry successfully. I learned so much about cooking (and knife skills especially) and …
In my family, we use any late spring/summer holiday (i.e. Labor Day, Memorial Day or 4th of July) as an excuse to have a barbecue. We’ll typically grill hot dogs and hamburgers and corn on the cob and my mom will make a potato salad. There will be chips with …
About five years ago I made and posted this recipe for Baked Peanut Butter Chocolate Doughnuts which are very near and dear to my heart for several reasons. The first obvious reason is that they’re absolutely delicious, and the second reason is that I met my husband on Instagram because …
Sometimes we’re all in dire need of comfort food. Whether that means a big bowl of chili, a couple slices of pizza, or several servings of cheesy homemade mac and cheese. Comfort food is whatever makes us happy. Whatever brings us back home and gives us that warm fuzzy feeling …
As you can see with this post, and the one earlier in the week, we’re on an Eggs Benedict kick. That’s because it happens to be my mom’s favorite breakfast/brunch dish and Mother’s Day is coming up fast. I wanted to make sure you had some options on what to …
