An Expatriate's Culinary Journey from the Argentine Pampas to the Minnesotan Prairie
I confess that I used to never like Tres Leches Cake. It used to be a dessert that eluded me. I couldn’t understand the concept of a cake sitting in a sweet, milky sauce. The majority of restaurants have Tres Leches Cake on their dessert menu. Maybe it’s just bad luck but I’ve never liked [...]
Hi, how are you all? I hope everybody is getting ready for a much better summer than last year. Things are slowly reopening in the Twin Cities. Hennepin County still has a lot of cases going on, so the mask mandate is still in effect in Minneapolis, but here and there you can see restaurants [...]
Every spring, I’m obsessed with the beautiful pastel colors blooming in the garden, and I somehow want to capture all the beauty and intoxicating scents of spring. Lilacs are one of my favorites because they have such a wonderfully sweet, nostalgic perfume, and I have so many good memories associated with them from Louisa May [...]
I have a profound love of Asian foods, especially Chinese and Thai, and Dan and I were dating, we would go out to eat to family-owned Asian restaurants in the Twin Cities and we would eat while he told me stories of cooking traditional Chinese recipes with his grandparents and cousins when they gathered on [...]
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! As an Argentine, I was never aware of this holiday until I moved to the United States and made some friends in the Mexican American community It was nice to meet Mexican hermanos y hermanas who shared the same language, many customs, and could relate to the experience of living with two cultures [...]
Carol's Baking adventures 