Articles tagged with: comida
Let’s Have Thanksgiving Together
Dear Amigos,
Consider this your Evite to a Virtual Thanksgiving Celebration.
Join us Thanksgiving Day on the Tiki Tiki Facebook Fan Page for a pachanga with the pavo, la comida and la familia.
We are …
Our First American Thanksgiving
It was yet another bewildering holiday in America for all of us, my newly citizened family of eight in the late 1960′s. We were all in the kitchen, assembling the ingredients that …
I am declaring it, right here, right now:
The Future is Fried Pies.
Fried pies sold in rolling trucks, fried pies sold in cute little cafes, fried pies served as dessert in chichi restaurants.
It is the next …
Ed. note: The Tiki Tiki asked Clara, the genius behind the Dominican cooking site, Aunt Clara’s Kitchen, to share some favorite recipes from the Dominican Republic.
To learn more about the typical creole cooking, the …
“The New Southern-Latino Table: Recipes that Bring Together the Bold and Beloved Flavors of Latin America and the American South” by Sandra A. Gutierrez describes the melding of traditional foods from Latin American and American South. 150 original recipes.
At this week’s potluck with the neighbors — where we discuss things such as new baby names, Google+ vs Facebook and dogs that eat underwear — a friend joyfully told me she had purchased a …
What was in your Lonch-eh Box?
It was 5:45 a.m. Tuesday and I had taken at least a couple sips of my strong Bustelo as I dug in to make Maria the second of what will …
By Madelyn of KarmaFree Cooking
Some people might find it hard to believe that a Latina can be a vegetarian for 10+ years. Eradicating meat from my diet as a way to eat more healthfully was …
My daughter ate broccoli the other day.
And I nearly fell over.
And then she ate a spinach leaf.
She proclaimed both “Pretty good!”
“Close your mouth,’’ my husband said, looking at my astonishment.
Seriously, that moment is forever burned …
The power of puré y potaje
When my daughter was born, I found it odd there were so many books and blogs about making homemade baby food.
My Cuban grandmother made potajes and purés in her whirring Osterizer — …
