Nopales and Fried Tofu in Red Chipotle Sauce
Lenten season is upon us and I am always scrambling to figure out how to have a meatless day. I’m a true carnivore. I can’t help it. Without meat in my meal I often find myself feeling deprived. Nopales (cactus paddles) is one of the first places I go to create a new recipe or re-create a […]
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Tomato Bisque with Bacon Crumbles Recipe
This tomato bisque recipe is luscious, velvety, and will hit the spot every time. A few friends have commented that they “don’t like” tomato soup. Stephen was the same way. Yet, he found the creaminess and flavors of butter and bacon in this bisque changed his mind. Where tomato soup is thin and watery, this bisque is thick […]
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Sopa de Lima with Black Limes: This Aint Your Mama’s Chicken Soup
With cooler weather and influenza settling in for the season, it is time to pull out the comfort food big guns. One of my ultimate Mexican comfort foods, Sopa de Lima, can definitely hold its own among my other heartier and heavier soup recipes. Don’t be fooled. This soup is not just another chicken soup. […]
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Passion Fruit Dressing
Art and I absolutely love the tropical, sweet tartness of passion fruit. We found this recipe in the new cookbook “50 Best Plants on the Planet,” by Chef Cathy Thomas and Melissa’s Produce. The dressing has chipotle chile in it. Chipotle chiles are ripe jalapeños that have been dried and smoked. The spicy kick from […]
Continue ReadingLatinoFoodie’s Top Five products at the 2013 Winter Fancy Food Show in San Francisco
Putting aside the bright advertisement, and fanfare surrounding the products at the Fancy Food Show in San Francisco a few weeks ago, I went about sampling and rating what I consider the top five products from the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking exhibitors. I was especially impressed by the Andean region and Spain, whose products seem to […]
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LatinoFoodie Attends 2013 Winter Fancy Food Show in San Francisco
This year’s Winter Fancy Food Show at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, held Jan. 20-22 was one of two high-profile conventions for the specialty food industry. Chefs and restaurant owners, retailers, manufacturers, importers, and members of the media attended this large gathering of professional “foodies”, where exhibitors from the U.S. and more than 32 […]
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Guest Post: Rochelle Palermo Shares Her Pan Dulce Recipe
Editor’s Note: We cannot say enough how honored we are to have recipe developer and food editor to some of best and brightest chefs in the world share exclusively with LatinoFoodie readers her pan dulce recipe. I had the opportunity to work with Rochelle Palermo during and after culinary school. At this point Rochelle has […]
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Buick Food & Wine Discovery Tour
While all my friends were scarfing chicken wings and carne asada nachos watching the NFL championship games on Sunday, I was being schooled by some top celebrity chefs. Greek-American culinary star Michael Psilakis showed us how to make a gyro spice of cumin, coriander, yellow mustard seed, cloves, black cardamom, fennel and cinnamon. America’s premier wine and spirits […]
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Balance Your Binge with Exercise This New Year and Recharge Your Body with Milk #HazloEjercicio
With all the Christmas and New Year’s parties, Posadas, weekends of baking, and the countless tamaladas, it is very easy to be saddled with a few extra pounds and a little extra guilt. I’m not a health nut and I don’t count calories, but this time of year I take that guilt…wallow in it for […]
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Quit Loafing Around; Wake up Your Meatloaf Recipe with Roasted Pasilla Peppers
Believe it or not, sometimes Art and I don’t agree on the food we like. He doesn’t care for meatloaf. He feels it’s boring, plus he has an aversion to ketchup. He remembers his mom making it once or twice and each time it was dry (sorry mama Rodriguez, his words not mine). Personally, I […]
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