New for 2009: Dulce de Leche Girl Scout Cookies! Deliriously happy over here about this cookie made of my favorite flavor in the world.  Seriously. I have two boxes coming from a little Girl Scout friend all the way in Colorado. Bless her mother for telling me about it this weekend. Here is a recipe using [...]

Are you headed to the grocery store again?Not sure what you’re cooking tomorrow?Well, lucky me. I have a sister-in-law who is cooking this year. I’m on deck for my gingersnap, pumpkin flan though. Finger-licking bueno.I’m reposting the recipes I followed last year — because they are damned good and if you still are looking for [...]

 www.comidakraft.com Buenos Dias, America the free and the brave. Whether your candidate won or lost last night, I hope you’re celebrating the fact you had a choice. If your team won, I hope you carry that energy and joy forward to unite and better your community and if your team lost, take that energy and work [...]

I do not hang out in the Pop-tart aisle. My extra calories and hydrogenated oils are a little more upper-crusty than that…Slightly. But, yesterday I followed some strange gravitational pull, looked up toward the fluorescent lights of my local Big Box Chapel and what did mine eyes thus see? Ay, Dios Mio Bendito! Dulce de Leche [...]

I do not hang out in the Pop-tart aisle. My extra calories and hydrogenated oils are a little more upper-crusty than that…Slightly. But, yesterday I followed some strange gravitational pull, looked up toward the fluorescent lights of my local Big Box Chapel and what did mine eyes thus see? Ay, Dios Mio Bendito! Dulce de Leche [...]

The July Bon Appetit showed up in my P.O. Box and promised juicy reads about burgers with chipotle, mint raita and piquillo peppers (they’re from Spain, I learned.) OK, fabulous read and all, but let’s talk about Cuban fritas and Uruguayan burgers dripping with poached eggs and salsa. And, because they can pachanga like the [...]

Car’ai, this post was intended to be longer and poetic and maybe even funny, but I’m headed to Geek Squad con PDF problemas. Oy. So, without the fluff, let me tell you about Marta’s new Cuban cookbook. You know Marta from My Big Fat Cuban Family. If you don’t. Go there now. Hang out, read [...]

I think this blog might turn into the world’s greatest collection of Dulce de Leche recipes. I seem to keep stumbling onto them. The Universe loves me. A lot. Here are a couple I found on a beautiful, smart and award-winning food blog called Leite’s Culinaria. There’s so much great stuff there that I’ve added [...]

I just typed this entire recipe in for you, dear reader, because I could not find it on-line and had to share. Just typing in this recipe, I can feel my jeans getting tighter in the seat. Join with me in the “Amen’’ over this recipe. Chocolate, dulce de leche, rum and bread. This woman [...]

I just typed this entire recipe in for you, dear reader, because I could not find it on-line and had to share. Just typing in this recipe, I can feel my jeans getting tighter in the seat. Join with me in the “Amen’’ over this recipe. Chocolate, dulce de leche, rum and bread. This woman [...]