- Jun 30, 2022
- 3 min
Kiwicha con leche, Peru's amaranth breakfast drink
A super easy recipe for a delicious and nutritious Peruvian breakfast drink recipe made from amaranth, Kiwicha con leche.
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- Jan 1, 2022
- 4 min
Reflections on food traditions and tamales
Creating a family tradition of making tamales together.
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- Feb 1, 2021
- 6 min
The Pandemic Kitchen and my Hoarding Hallelujah Moment
This was not a post I had planned to write. I realized recently, after trying to work up the energy to create and test out another...
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- Dec 1, 2020
- 4 min
Tantawawa, a sweet bread offering
Having been born in the U.S. my references for Dia de Muertos, or Day of the Dead, were most often with the customs of Mexico. As a young...
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- Sep 29, 2020
- 7 min
Green Deditos: Year 2!
Last year Kahlo and I started growing a few things on our deck. Here are some of the lessons we learned this year.
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- Mar 29, 2020
- 4 min
Safe at home? Make some Vegetarian Chili and Sweet Cornbread!
Many of us are now working, schooling, shopping and entertaining each other at home and from home. For those of us in big cities, we may...
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- Nov 11, 2019
- 7 min
Latin American baby food? Yup!
Can I be real for a minute? As much as I wanted to feed my little girl all the best things in the world I also used to make baby food for ec
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- Oct 17, 2019
- 7 min
Green Deditos: Gardening Babysteps
When Kahlo and I first started this website and blog we'd hoped to document our journey with food: to document our family recipes, maybe...
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- Apr 1, 2019
- 5 min
Beans That Made Him Cry
I had these smoked turkey necks in the freezer and a bag of pinto beans I needed to use up. I decided to throw them together into...
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- Dec 23, 2018
- 4 min
Tamales a la Chiquimamis
Winter time is a season when our family gathers together for many things. We have quite a few birthdays that fall in December (and...
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