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Flourless Chocolate Cake Slice
Desserts, New Year's Dinner

Flourless Chocolate Cake

Flourless Chocolate Cake is a modern baking marvel. Although this recipe isn’t traditionally Cuban, every Abuela would approve of a chocolate cake that melts in your mouth. We think it’s a great recipe to have in your recipe arsenal. This Flourless Chocolate Cake is airy and fudgy all in the […]

Cauliflower Rice with Shrimp
Entree, Healthy Recipes

Cauliflower Rice with Shrimp

This Cauliflower Rice with Shrimp Recipe is a quick one pot meal that is healthy and so delicious. What is Cauliflower Rice with Shrimp Cauliflower rice with shrimp is a nod to the Cuban staple, Arroz con Camarones. While we are not opposed to making this just as it was […]

Oven Roasted Beef Tenderloin
Entree, New Year's Dinner

Oven Roasted Beef Tenderloin

There are few things as special as an Oven Roasted Beef Tenderloin, or Filet Mignon. Everyone loves filet. The filet of beef is arguably the most tender cut of meat. It melts in your mouth and can absorb any flavor you give to it. Roasting a whole beef tenderloin is […]

Cuban Fruit Salad
Appetizers, Brunch

Cuban Fruit Salad 

Cuban Fruit Salad is a fun little twist on a classic. A fruit salad is always a good idea. It helps round out and balance any table. But we especially love this for a brunch or BBQ. What is Cuban Fruit Salad Cuban Fruit Salad is just a regular old […]

Butternut Squash Latkes
Appetizers, Sides

Butternut Squash Latkes

These Butternut Squash Latkes are so easy and delicious you will be thinking about them the next day. Latkes are traditionally served to celebrate Hanukkah. Fried foods are served during Hanukkah as an ode to a miraculous oil that burned in a lamp for eight days instead of one. However, […]

Berry Merry Mojito
Cocktail

Berry Merry Mojito

Our Berry Merry Mojito is our new Christmas Cocktail. It is filled with those traditional mojito flavors that you love, but more festive. Many people shy away from Mojitos because they are very sweet. Although we do add sugar to our Berry Merry Mojitos, a lot of the sweetness comes […]

Cranbery Guava Baked Brie
Appetizers, Thanksgiving

Cranberry Guava Baked Brie

Cranberry Guava Baked Brie is the perfect appetizer while you are hosting any dinner party or gathering. You can assemble it ahead of time and leave it in the fridge as long as you cover it with plastic wrap to avoid the pastry from hardening.  It’s a show stopper. In […]

Christmas Congri
Christmas Eve and Morning Ideas, Sides

Christmas Congri

Christmas Congri is everyone’s favorite side dish. There is no other dish better assembled to accompany the pork on Noche Buena. It’s perfectly cooked rice married together with beans and just the right sprinkle of bacon fat. It’s just the right side to absorb all the delicious lechon drippings, which […]

French Toast Casserole
Brunch

Mary’s French Toast Casserole

Mary’s French Toast Casserole is the answer to your brunch dreams. This recipe is so good your kids will almost forget what day it is. This is a slap yo’ mama good recipe. This French Toast Casserole is very similar to a bread pudding. The difference is, it is loaded with […]