Recipes

  One of the best treats during the holidays are my wife’s sugar cookies, or as I like to call them, crispy butter!! People can’t get enough of them and when you start eating them, they are like chips, “bet you can’t have just one.”!!! These are melt in your mouth buttery goodness that is

  It’s been a long long standing tradition in our family to have a leg of fresh roasted pork on Christmas Eve along with black beans and rice, platanos maduros (ripe plantains), and yuca (cassava) with a garlic lemon sauce. I remember meeting my cousin downtown Tampa for a movie and then taking the bus

  Yuca is the root of the cassava plant, as opposed to yucca which is a desert plant. It is a root vegetable much like the potato but containing more starch and a few more calories per ounce. The only time I partake in this unctuous dish is in a restaurant or on Christmas Eve.

  The literal translation of this dish is the tail of a bull, so you might wonder why, in English, it is referred to as ox tail. Well the ox is actually a castrated bull, so there you have it. Rabos de Toros, as it is called in Spain, is one of the most popular

  For just about all of the last 52 years, one of the things I looked forward to most about my birthday was and is the once-a-year only Italian Cream Cake that my wife lovingly bakes. Trust me, I have tasted dozens of Italian Cream Cakes, but none come close to my wife’s. We’ve shared

  Fall is here and winter is on the way. What better dish to serve during this weather than a rich and creamy bisque. MISE EN PLACE INGREDIENTS: 1 Lb shrimp with the shells (Add an additional shrimp per person if you want to garnish your bisque with a piece of shrimp) 1 Stick of

  My paternal grandparents and my maternal grandmother were from Asturias, Spain. Much of the food that I grew up with were dishes from this region. Asturias is situated in a mountainous region of Northern Spain with miles of greenery and lush vegetation. It is considered part of “Green Spain”. My father’s parents were from

  My wife and I love Asian food and kung pao anything is one of our favorites. I found some beautiful extra large shrimp on sale at the market and decided to try my hand with this succulent dish. Full disclosure, some of my ingredients are not typical of authentic kung pao, but we loved

  With so many of us overeating during this pandemic, I thought it would be good to add some lite but satisfying recipes. Believe me, I hate anything that has the word diet, low fat, fat free or lite in the title with few exceptions, so whatever I put on this blog as weight watcher