Weekend Cooking: Chipotle Chicken Barley Soup
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Editor’s Note: Here’s another wonderful installment in our series on Grains.
My mami’s kitchen pantry was always well stocked. Beans, sopitas, chiles, and grains were her go-to staples for weekly meals. A pot of beans was always churning…
Make Friends With Farro: Farro Quinoa Kale Salad
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Now that the dust of the holidays has settled, there is one thing on my mind—getting healthy. I want to focus my attention to salads loaded with grains and veggies. It was interesting to watch kale make such a rise in the world of healthy…
Potaje de Garbanzos—A Hearty One-Plate Meal
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When I was a kid, this is one of those dishes my abuelita tricked me into eating to get me to eat healthy meals. I remember being amazed at her patience as she soaked the dried garbanzo beans overnight. Though nowadays we can get…
Working Mom Lunch: Crunchy Sprouted Bean Salad
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It’s noon and you are starving. Everyone else in the office has been talking about where and what they are going to eat for lunch for the past hour and all you can think about is your tight budget and the dress you are trying to fit into…
Quick Chicken Soup Recipe To Cure The Sniffles
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So, here's the thing...I roast a whole chicken every week or two. They're a great value. They can feed a family of five and leave enough leftovers for a good lunch or dinner like pasta or rice with chicken, or chicken quesadillas. So…
Fast & Fabulous! Beautiful Beet Salad
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This is one of the easiest salads in the Latin American repertoire. Beets are known as betabel or as remolacha, depending on where you are. The simple vinaigrette enhances the sweetness of the beets. Use gloves any time you work with beets,…
Estefan's Sopa de Chicharos (Split Pea Soup)
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Every culture has a variation of split pea soup. The sofrito gives it a unique flavor you won’t find anywhere else. Sofrito serves as the base for several traditional Cuban dishes, but the exact ingredients of the sofrito vary depending…
Fast & Fabulous Fridays: Peruvian Chicken Cilantro Soup
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Why not add some spice to your family Friday nights with this delicious, nutritious, soup? Get the whole family involved cutting, chopping and helping out!
This sumptuous version of classic chicken soup is tinted green with a fistful of cilantro…
Perfectly Preserved: The Sour-Sweet Tang of Kimchi & Sauerkraut
Recipes, Soups & SaladsFirst things first, let’s start with some basics. What exactly are fermented foods? Why are they good for you, and how can you to add them into your daily diet? Simply put, fermented foods are those in which their texture and flavor have…