The big game is just around the corner and what says Super Bowl more than chicken wings? These chicken wings are the perfect game day appetizer. The chicken wings are cook in the instant pot until they are fall off the bone tender. They are then tossed with a sweet, spicy, and sticky gochujang glaze. …
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Malta BBQ Slow Cooker Spicy Pulled Pork Recipe
Malta BBQ Slow Cooker Spicy Pulled Pork Recipe | Pork is a big deal in this home. It could have something to do with being Puerto Rican. It’s the choice of meat on our little island. Seriously, instead of a Christmas ham, we roast pork with the skin on until crispy and fall-apart tender. We…
Paleo Bulgogi Bibimbap | Cauliflower Rice + Pork Bulgogi
Paleo Bulgogi Bibimbap | I remember the first time I saw bibimbap was on a cooking show. It looked amazing to me! The rice, meat, all the veggies, and a fried egg. I was instantly in love. Two weeks ago, OB and I were way up on the northeast side of DFW in Frisco. It…
Roasted Beets and Carrots Salad with Burrata
Roasted Beets and Carrots Salad with Burrata | The signs of fall have finally reached Texas. I woke up this morning and it was 55 degrees. In fact, my toes were practically frozen. But with the cold weather comes cold-weather food. Yessss! Bring on the stews, braised meats, and roasted vegetables! Regardless of how cold…
Turkey Chorizo & Sweet Potato Breakfast Burrito Recipe
Breakfast Burrito Mornings can get a little crazy and I don’t always have time to make breakfast. I’ve tried a variation of make-ahead egg breakfast options but my favorite is the breakfast burrito. I started making these burritos after a certain fast-food chain took my favorite breakfast burrito off the menu. Make-ahead breakfast burritos are…
Rice Bowl Meal Prep | Making Eating Healthy Easy and Delicious
Rice Bowl Meal Prep | The arrival of a new year means the setting of new goals. One of my goals is to get my eating back on track after three months of eating virtually whatever I want. Mmmmm….pasteles. And, I am doing it with rice bowl meal prep ideas. Planning and meal prepping is…
Cranberry Sweet Bread Rolls with Orange Icing
Cranberry Sweet Bread Rolls | I have told you all on a few occasions that I’m not the best baker. I am capable of baking but I’m not consistent. I think I lack the patience that is required to be a really grreat baker. But, there are a few things I make on the regular that…
Puerto Rican “Fried Rice”
There is just two of us in our little house, which results in a lot of leftovers sometimes. Especially when it comes to rice. We like rice, no we love rice. Rice is to Puerto Ricans what potatoes are to Americans. Growing up in a Puerto Rican home the standard meal was rice, beans and…
Authentic Coquito Recipe | Puerto Rican Coconut Nog
Coquito | Christmas isn’t Christmas in Puerto Rico without a glass of cold coquito (co-kee-to). If you don’t know what’s coquito my heart hurts for you because it’s the best thing EVER! I like to call it eggnog’s better tasting sassy cousin. Even though it’s nothing like eggnog. I make bottles of this every year…
Roasted Butternut Squash and Red Onion with Pears & Blue Cheese
Roasted Butternut Squash and Red Onion with Pears & Blue Cheese | We are in that weird phase where the weather can’t decide if it’s warm or cool outside, so I am willing Fall into existence. We need Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year to get here ASAP. None of this hot weather every few days…