Bon Appetit, one of my favorite cooking magazines published a recipe for Rose Sangria with Pineapple and Guava in its June 2009 issue. I made it for a dinner party and it was a …

I posted the other day about my Thanksgiving Placecards and how I had to “wound” some apples to make my table look awesome. (And it did. *blushes*)
But, what to do with all those apples?
I have …

Editor’s note: While we were in Miami last week, Carrie took me on a pilgrimage to El Palacio de los Jugos on Flagler and 57th. I say “pilgrimage” because we both live in areas where …

I close my eyes and take one bite and suddenly I am unstuck in time …
I’m in the heart of the city, which means I get to enjoy something amazing from one of the …

My dad used to swear by the medicinal properties of garlic.
“Garlic,” he would always say, “is a natural antibiotic.” He usually made this pronouncement as he was pouring olive oil over toasted Cuban bread …

So there I was, cooking Cuban food and minding my own business, when I received an email from the lovely folks at Kikkoman. Yes, you know them best as the Japanese soy sauce people.
They were …

Because I’m a blogger (here at TikiTiki, at Babalú Blog and over at My big, fat, Cuban family) I get asked by advertisers to consider hawking their product. They know that Hispanics make up the …

Is there anything better than chocolate?
I have a love/hate relationship with chocolate.
I love ANYTHING made with it. I hate that I have no willpower when it comes to just about any chocolatey gooey confection.
I can …

I sometimes wonder what I would do if I didn’t have my mom.
It’s not so much that I need her in that everyday sense anymore. It’s just that she supplies so much fodder for my …

It’s raining like crazy here in So Cal. And seriously, we don’t know what to do with ourselves when there is “weather.”
Mostly, we stay indoors and complain to each other via text or telephone. But …