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Stuffed Turkey Breast Pavochon

This Puerto Rican-style stuffed turkey breast is a perfect roast to add to your holiday table!  It's a recipe inspired by Pavochon, a  turkey (pavo) prepared like a traditional pork roast (lechon) and usually stuffed with mashed plantains (mofongo). This recipe is for half a turkey breast. It's made fragrant with a citrusy Puerto Rican marinade and earthy spices. It's then stuffed with a mushroom picadillo.  Feel free to use a whole turkey breast, just scale up the ingredients for every three pounds of bird. Ingredients Turkey Breast 1 3 lb skin-on turkey breast roast 4 garlic cloves 2 tablespoons olive oil 2 [...]

2021-11-23T17:31:51+00:00By |Uncategorized|0 Comments

#EasyRecipe: Peanut Butter Cookies

  I've been making this recipe since I was a pre-teen. I  sold them at a trailer park playground so I could score the things I thought I needed to survive, like George Michael's album Faith. Hahaha! I wrote this recipe's origin story for Bon Appetit and it was just published. You can check it out here. Made with just four ingredients, you can whip these peanut butter cookies up in a few minutes. I recommend that you rest the dough for an hour to solidify the oil in the peanut butter and help control spread as they bake. The white sugar helps create a deeper caramel color [...]

Lemon Blueberry Quesito

This easy-to-make lemon blueberry quesito ( Puerto Rico's version of the danish) is one of my favorite summer dessert recipes. OK, if I'm keeping it 100, I make it all year. But it's super awesome during the summer when I get a little crazy buying a ton of berries at the farmer's market. You can have this baby in the oven in under ten minutes and on your table in under thirty. When you choose fresh blueberries at the market, go for plump ones, dent-free, and a deep blue. Skip blueberries that have any red patches on them, as this shows they were picked before their time. Blueberries do [...]

Coconut Dark Chocolate Syrup

Coconut and dark chocolate go hand in hand like peanut butter and jelly. One of my favorite (and easiest) ways to enjoy this flavor combo is this silky coconut dark chocolate syrup. You can make it in minutes and enjoy it for days. (Or just one day if you're a bit of a glutton like me.) Truly the most complicated step in this recipe is making sure you're choosing sweetened cream of coconut. It can be confusing when you're facing rows and rows of cans that say cream of coconut, coconut cream, and coconut milk, so here's a little explainer. Coconut cream is made from coconut milk that's chilled until [...]

2021-07-13T18:58:54+00:00By |Desserts, Recipes, Sauces|0 Comments

Cool Down with Piña Colada Popsicles

Today is national Piña Colada day! Though I'm all about a silky, creamy, icy piña colada, I love Puerto Rico's national drink even more in popsicle form, especially on 100 plus degree days. I make mine virgin because I'm not much of a drinker, and I have a teenage boy in the house that eats six of everything. Of course, you can make these frozen pops with spicy rum. Just remember that alcohol doesn't freeze, so you have to be careful with your ratio of juice to alcohol. If you go heavy on the alcohol, you'll be eating piña colada slushies, which doesn't sound all that bad either. Buen [...]

#IslandFlavor: Piña Colada

The Piña Colada is Puerto Rico's National drink and today is national Piña Colada day! It's also my fave frozen drink so, of course, I have to give you my recipe and a little bit of history. As the legend goes, back in the way back, when the seas were ruled by pirates, there was a Puerto Rican buccaneer who had a ship full of super-depressed, thieving sailors. This pirate decided that the best way to perk up his shipmates' spirits was to get them a 401k plan. I kid. He got them drunk on a blend of coconut, pineapple and white rum and PERFECTION was born. Traditionally a Piña Colada [...]

Two-Ingredient Pie Dough

Nothing says summer’s here quite like a homemade fruit pie. Tangy blackberries, tart cherries, and luscious peaches are all in season and make incredibly easy fillings. It’s always a good idea to have some dough tucked away for a quick fruit pie. It’s a wonderful addition to a brunch or impromptu get-together. Drop it on the table and watch it get gobbled up. #Trust. If you’re intimidated by making your own dough, don’t be. It’s not as tricky a process as some would have you believe. My recipe calls for just two ingredients and a touch of water. The key step is to make sure all the ingredients are [...]

Easy Recipe: Peach Galette

Peach season is in full swing, my friends! This easy-to-make peach galette is my favorite way to showcase this succulent summer fruit. A galette is a rustic, free-form pie baked on a sheet pan, not in a pie pan. You can use store-bought pie dough, puff pastry, or use my simple two-ingredient pie dough recipe to get this luscious dessert on the table in under an hour.  The most important step is to make sure you taste your peaches before you add them to the dough. Not all peaches are overflowing with flavor. If they're lacking in the taste department, add a touch of honey, a few drops of [...]

Easy Recipe: Spinach Pancetta Quiche

Don’t you love a slice of cold quiche on a hot day? This recipe is so perfect for a summer cool-down. It’s easy, it’s fast, and it’s SO YUM. In case you’ve never had it, a quiche is a savory custard with a pie crust or, as my son puts it: scrambled egg pie. From the outside looking in, quiche seems like a sophisticated recipe, but it isn’t. It really is just a scrambled egg pie. What I love the most is that just like your favorite omelet, you can add in any bits and pieces of food that are left in the fridge to make something new and [...]

2021-07-03T19:07:36+00:00By |Uncategorized|0 Comments

Chorizo Frittata

Frittatas are like your favorite pair of jeans, no matter what time of the day it is, they're always just right.  They're so easy to put together with anything you've got in your fridge, really. This recipe is one of my favorites. The porky hit of paprika from the Spanish chorizo paired with the gooey nuttiness of the manchego and the creamy tang of the buttermilk is irresistible. Of course, you can't just throw everything together. You've got to brown the chorizo and potatoes and coax the flavor out of your onions and garlic, but that doesn't take long and the reward is well worth the effort. I use [...]

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