Sausage Stuffed Tomato Recipe

Sausage Stuffed Tomato Recipe – the way Grandma made them! The key to success with this simple sausage stuffed tomatoes recipe is to start by selecting large vine ripened tomatoes. Tomatoes should smell like you just picked off the vine in your own...

Healthy Banana Ice Cake

I have very bad luck when matching my recipes with the weather. A week ago it was extremely hot in Mexico City, so I bought all the ingredients to make this ice cream dessert. And just the day I prepared it, the cold weather started. Tengo muy mala...

Apricot & Nuts Granola Bars

On Saturday was my husband’s 30 th birthday, so I prepared a Kit Kat cake, one of his favorite chocolates. It was delicious, but I know that it isn’t the world’s healthiest dessert. So after a weekend of great food, and many desserts, I decided to...

Sweet Potato Granola

It was a bit difficult to choose the right name for this recipe, but in the end I decided on sweet potato granola. The idea started when I saw a recipe for spiralized sweet potato fries , it occurred to me to use the same technique and prepare...

Easy Eggplant Moussaka Recipe

For Sunday dinner at Mom’s, I created an easy   Eggplant moussaka recipe.    Of course, we could be like Miss Clairee and call it an aubergine moussaka recipe! Eggplant, “grape or aubergine”, not only is it a time consuming dish...

Mediterranean Grain Bowl

Humble grain bowls seem to be all the rage right now. They’re on menus at all sorts of hip restaurants and not so hip ones. But they’re also incredibly easy to make at home and seriously affordable, a college student’s dream. You can basically...

Cure-all Spicy Ginger Mushroom Soup

The other day I felt myself starting to get sick so I ran over to Whole Foods and bought up all of the immunity boosting things I could think of. And it worked! 3 cloves garlic 3 cm piece fresh ginger 1 carton chicken broth (low sodium) 2...

Tofu Popcorn

When I was in elementary school, I remembered one friend that always had chicken popcorn for lunch. As much as I told my mom to bought some (they were sold in the frozen section), she never did. Although at the time I didn’t understood, and I’m...

Parmesan Truffle Fries

I remember the first time I learned about truffle oil. I was a bit confused – is it chocolate oil? Do they squeeze the life out of those little delicacies to create a concentrated chocolatey truffle essence? Now don’t get me wrong – that kind of...

Homemade Soup Day!

Today is homemade soup day ! In our home,   mushroom soup in all its variations takes the number 1 spot on the list of homemade soups. Coming in at a close second is Chinese egg drop soup  which also comes in several variations. Not all...

Vegan Mexican Chorizo

Some people have asked me if I became a vegan this year, because most of the recipes I’ve shared this month have had this feature. I don’t like to use labels to categorize a diet, but I don’t consider myself a vegan person. It is true that I’m...

Decadent Chocolate Silk Pie – Made with Tofu!!

After preparing several savory recipes, I was craving something sweet, don’t you? And if you like chocolate, I’m sure that this dessert will mesmerize you. It’s a super creamy chocolate pie. And as you probably guessed, it has a secret ingredient,...

Chai Baked Doughnuts – Vegan Recipe

It really amazes me that every time we have a cold and cloudy day in Mexico City, it seems like no one leaves their houses, or they get out for the minimum time possible. It is true that many of our buildings are not made for the cold weather, but...

Chickpea Burgers

I really like homemade burgers made with vegetables or beans, but not the veggie burgers that are so fashionable right now in many restaurants. When you bite into them, it’s like if you were chewing on a piece of cardboard, and they are always...

Hearts of Palm Ceviche

Although the origin of the ceviche is Peruvian, it is a dish that, because of its freshness, is quite common in several Latin American countries. In Mexico we have our own version, obviously a little bit spicier, which is usually made with some...