I have been receiving requests to add this recipe for a long time, years in fact. I have to say that it isn’t just procrastination that has caused this, if you know me well, you know that I am not a big fan of fried foods. As a food blogger that documents a lot of
Welcome to our new front page. No, you didn’t accidentally click on the wrong link. We have changed a few things around (and will do some more). I am in the process of simplifying a lot of things in our blogs and of rethinking others. I must. I need to. Summer break always means having
Unless you have travelled or lived in Central America, you will probably have never heard of the pitahaya, also known as ‘pitaya’ or ‘dragon fruit’. It is widely cultivated in countries such as Nicaragua where it is mainly used in making a popular natural juice with a distinctive beetroot-pink colour. It is also grown in other
I always wondered how the parents’ occupations influence their kids future career choices. In my case my own parents’ choices (teacher/principal and accountant) are what I call my “nightmare careers”. Trust me, I know the world needs accountants and, even more, it needs teachers, but I have neither the talent nor the inclination for these. It
Have you ever heard of the word “scrumping”? No? You’re not alone. As it happens, neither have most of the world’s non-British English speakers, as far as I could find. And when they have, most of them think of a completely different activity than the one in the minds of Brits. Allow me to explain
For the last 3 days it has been raining in our corner of the world. Does anyone have the number for a good ark builder? Luckily it hasn’t been raining non-stop, something we have experienced in the past, but the sun hasn’t been out that much lately. Up to some point it is a nice
Sometimes I think we should change the name of our site to Dominican Cake and Other Recipes. A good percentage of the people who come to our site do it because they are searching for this recipe, this recipe generates more questions than any other, and it’s the one that seems to give most people
Yesterday I was talking on the phone with Sagrario from the magazine Vainilla y Azafrán (@VanillayAzafran) about the changes in the ways people learn how to cook these days, specifically the ways they learn to cook our food. Whereas a couple of generations back most Dominicans learned how to cook from their moms, aunts and
We know it’s Christmas in the DR when mandarines show in roadside stands, corner fruit vendors and supermarkets. How about you combine the official fruit of the holidays with the superior flavor our the Dominican rum in a drink that you can serve year-round? Learned from my mom, this easy-to-make drink mixes the flavor of
Despite my oft-misunderstood predilection for Marmite, there are some English institutions that have failed to rub off on me. Most notable has got to be the strong, sweet, milky tea that most English people can’t contemplate living without. The Dominican equivalent would be giving up coffee, and I can definitely relate to that. My love
Food contains natural chemicals that are essential to our health – vitamins and minerals are obvious examples. But did you know that in some foods lurk certain substances which may be harmful? Some of these items – like rhubarb – are not commonplace in our cuisine, but looking through the lists of these foods several
It’s official. We are – as the Chinese would have it – living in interesting times. Prices are skyrocketing as the peso devaluates, and products that were once affordable are now in the category of luxuries. The middle classes are complaining bitterly, and one can only imagine the effect the price rises are having on
I had visitors the other day, but I had a problem. A combination of little time and a shrinking budget found me with an almost-empty fridge and facing the conundrum, thus far unanswered, that has troubled every cook since cavemen were chasing mammoths: what to cook? Allow me to appear immodest and tell you that
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