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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. Our recipe use fresh fruit and is sweetened slightly with the juices from […]

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 […]

Coquito New Recipe
Cocktail

Coquito

Coquito comes to the world via Puerto Rico. It is a seasonal signature Puerto Rican drink that symbolizes the coming of Christmas. You can think of it as a Puerto Rican eggnog. In Puerto Rican culture, it is a drink that celebrates “life, success, love and culture.” It’s name, Coquito, […]

Crispy Caramel Brittle
Desserts, Thanksgiving

Crunchy Caramel Nut Brittle

This Crunchy Caramel Nut Brittle takes us back to Cuba. While we may not have been there, we have all heard stories from our parents or grandparents about the vendors that would spin candy along the shoreline. They called it Piruli de Nuez. This is our spin, and it just […]

Caramel Nut Brittle Recipe
Desserts, Thanksgiving

Pumpkin Flan

Pumpkin Flan is a must have this fall. We are putting pumpkin in our coffee, in our candles, so why not put it in the flan? It has everything you love about a class Cuban flan, but with the added warmth and creaminess from the pumpkin. It’s the creamy twist […]