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Saborea Puerto Rico 2013: The Event
What a great day! Saborea Puerto Rico, a Culinary Extravaganza took over the grounds of el Parque del Tercer Milenio in San Juan. Hundreds of people from all corners of the island, the US and beyond arrived to the Saborea village to enjoy a sunny afternoon of food tastings, cool drinks, and entertainment. Read More…
Saborea Puerto Rico 2013: Chef Jimmy Carey
One of the highlights of attending Saborea Puerto Rico is the opportunity to meet and greet some of the most talented chefs del patio and the ones travel to the island to be part of this event. One of the chefs I’ve had the chance to meet in the 2012 edition was chef Jimmy Carey. He was one of the chefs with the most active Facebook and Twitter presence during last year’s Saborea Puerto Rico, which helped us track each other at el Parque del Tercer Milenio. Chef Jimmy currently owns and operates three locations of Jimmy’z Kitchen in the greater Miami area. Do not be fooled by the name. The minute you meet him, you forget he was born in Greenwich Village. His warmth, sense of humor and 75% of his accent are distinctively boricua. Read More…
Friday Tasty Links – April 5, 2013
This weekend will be light in terms of dish washing. I don’t plan to do much cooking because I will be enjoying the best of Puerto Rican gastronomy at Saborea Puerto Rico. If you are planning on going, remember to message me through Twitter or Facebook or use hashtag #SaboreaPR in your posts.
My olive sablé dough is resting in the fridge and will be baked tomorrow, so watch out for a French weekends post instead. David Lebovit’s seaweed sablés are also getting the catch-up treatment. I’ll finally check off these overdue savory crackers from my to do list. Read More…
Saborea Puerto Rico 2013
Image courtesy of the Puerto Rico Hotel & Tourism Association
Want to read about my experience at the event? Click here.
If Puerto Rico had an official food holiday, Saborea Puerto Rico would be it. The sixth edition of Saborea Puerto Rico – A Culinary Extravaganza kicks off tonight, with its flagship event taking place on April 6th and 7th at the Parque del Tercer Milenio (el Escambrón). This event is organized by the Puerto Rico Hotels and Tourism Association and sponsored by the City of San Juan, the Puerto Rico National Parks Company, and MasterCard among other entities. Sixty-two chefs from Puerto Rico and the US will be participating in different activities during these four days of tastings, education, and fun. Read More…
Vegetable Broth
I’m playing catch up with the French Fridays with Dorie crowd , and for some reason I decided to group my efforts by topic. During the last few weeks I’ve made the three soups I missed writing about: the creamy cauliflower soup sans cream, cheating on winter pea soup, and the orange scented lentil soup. The backbone for all three soups was a homemade vegetable broth. I usually just use the bouillon cubes whenever a recipe calls for vegetable broth, but I wanted to make my own stock for these soups. Vegetable broth gets the ugly duckling treatment in most cookbooks and kitchen reference books I have around. It’s usually ignored or mentioned in a little blurb away from its chicken, beef, and veal counteparts. Read More…
Friday Tasty Links – March 29, 2013
I hope everyone has a great Easter/Passover/spring solstice celebration! Maybe the rate at which I have been posting has given away that I am enjoying a week off from work-work. Feels nice to catch up on my reading and relax for a bit.
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French Fridays with Dorie: Lemon-Steamed Spinach Flashbacks
I spy…. lemon-steamed spinach! And broth-braised potatoes and Bistrot Paul Bert pepper steak too!
It has been almost two years since I made that meal and wrote about it. Revisiting that post was a bittersweet. Part of me wishes that writing those witty musings came in as easily as it did back when I started the blog. During this last months-long hiatus, that storytelling side got disconnected from my posts. I have been spending more time with my copies of On Writing Well, The Writers’ Idea Book and my big black bargain bin journal to help me snap it back into place.
Very Simple Pico de Gallo
I’m itching to go to the beach. I don’t think I’ve been to the beach since my friends D&D got married in Cancún last September. It’s a pity and a shame, considering I have one of the nicest strips of beach in Puerto Rico – the Isla Verde public beach – at a mere twenty minutes from my home. Feel free to insult me in the comments. I am planning to make up for lost time soon. Read More…
Arugula Chimichurri
As much as I love chimichurri - the Argentinean condiment for meats and potatoes – I don’t make it as often as I should. Skirt steak is in our dinner rotation at least every other week. Most of the time it is sliced and used to top salads, but when I don’t there’s always roasted potatoes or some other starch involved. In those occasions, it’s always nice to have some sauce on the side. This is part of the lore on how chimichurri came to be an Argentinean and Uruguayan staple. Read More…
French Fridays with Dorie: Orange Blossom Financiers
I know, I know… this is not this week’s intended French Fridays with Dorie recipe, Ispahan Loaf Cake. While I love to read about recipes with backgrounds as rich as this one – the Pierre Hermé cachet and the Persian rose connection – procuring all the ingredients and actually getting around baking it seemed a little daunting. It didn’t help to see that the opinion was split between the group on this recipe’s success. To keep the “desserts with floral notes” and Middle Eastern twists, I chose to swap the rose syrup and essence for an orange blossom syrup. I also scaled back the recipe and the loaf cake turned into mini bundts, hence the orange blossom financiers name. Financiers, like the Ispahan loaf cake, are made with ground almonds, sugar, eggs, flour and butter. Read More…
Friday Tasty Links – March 22, 2013
Did you have a good week? I’m still giddy about the NBC Latino profile published on Wednesday.
This week was a little uneventful in our kitchen, typical of the March/April work crunch. I had plenty of greens from Sunday’s market, so we had mostly salads. Yesterday I got around making a big batch of vegetable stock – a surprising “first”. Some of it ended up in in a creamy cauliflower soup (sans cream), some will go into an orange-scented lentil soup. Both are efforts to catch up with FFwD recipes. I am especially motivated to complete all these now that I bit the bullet and signed up for the IFBC. Dorie Greenspan will be the keynote speaker and a big bunch of the group bloggers will be in attendance.
On to this week’s Friday Tasty Links! Read More…
NBC Latino: Food Blogs We Love
I’m beyond excited today. Great Food 360˚ is featured this week over at NBC Latino, in the weekly “Food Blogs We Love” column. A couple of weeks ago, Nina Terrero from NBC Latino reached out and asked if I would be interested in being profiled. Santo quiere misa?
Thank you for taking time to read my posts and for sharing them with your friends and family. It makes this ride so much sweeter.
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Kale Sofrito Risotto
I don’t consider myself a slave to fashion and trends. My favorite pair of jeans is a faded, soft as sweatpants boot cut I bought ten years ago. I have never made a cake pop. It takes us a while to actually visit new ‘it’ restaurants. Eating healthily should never be considered a trend, however, I’ve fallen deep and hard into the kale love train.
Kale chips
Kale smoothies
Kale pestos
Stir-fried kale
Kale, kale, kale. Read More…
Friday Tasty Links – March 15th, 2013
- Árboles Grandes Trail, El Yunque National Forest, Puerto Rico
It’s time for Friday tasty links! Starting today, I will be pointing you out to news, essays, infographs, slide shows, and recipes that caught my eye during the week. If you come across any interesting food news to be shared during the week, tweet @GreatFood360 or post to the blog Facebook page.
Recipe Matchup: Chocolate Pudding
Chocolate pudding is the most comforting dessert I can think of. Could it be the “ah, mine!” factor of the individual portions? The “feel good” chemical components in the chocolate? The silky texture? While visiting Charleston last fall, E got to try Hominy Grill’s famous chocolate pudding. I bought the restaurant’s recipe booklet, and after we returned home every other week I would hear “when are you making the pudding?”. Last Sunday we had dinner over at our friends’ house and since it was my turn to bring dessert, I got around it. I even splurged on “good” chocolate for them. Read More…
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