Dominican Cooking

Oatmeal and nuts breakfast muffins

Aunt Clara — Fri, 17 May 2013 15:54:18 +0000

I must tell you that my daughter and I have a bit of an obsession with these oatmeal and nut breakfast muffins. It’s never too early to teach kids to love good, healthy food, and to instill in them the love for cooking. With some assistance (with the oven part) my 7-year old was capable [...]

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Vegan sancocho (root stew)

Aunt Clara — Wed, 08 May 2013 16:32:58 +0000

Vegan sancocho (root stew)

Do you know what a sancocho is? If so, I know what you’re thinking: “if it’s vegan, then it isn’t sancocho”. After all the recipe in our blog is called a “seven meat-stew“. You can hardly get any more carnivorous than that, short of chasing and killing your own prey. I love sancocho, but I’m [...]

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Urban agriculture – Start your own garden

Aunt Clara — Fri, 03 May 2013 13:11:25 +0000

Urban agriculture – Start your own garden

I could call it “urban gardening”, but gardening means also growing flowers and other ornamental plants. No, this post is entirely about urban agriculture: growing food, and how it has obsessed me for the better part of 13 years. Of course, in the last 13 years I have been an apartment dweller, so it’s not [...]

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Chickpea and zucchini blossom salad

Aunt Clara — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:52:17 +0000

Chickpea and zucchini blossom salad

I loved this chickpea and zucchini blossom salad. Few of these are ingredients traditionally used in traditional Dominican cuisine, but you know what I love the most about it? I grew almost everything that went into it. Yep, I did. Nothing tastes as good as freshly-picked vegetables that you grow yourself. I have been obsessed [...]

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Brown rice pilaf

Aunt Clara — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 15:53:30 +0000

Brown rice pilaf

I am not sure what changes as one grows older. Slowly our taste in foods change, and things that we would have considered “gross” or that we didn’t like as kids slowly become acceptable foods, enjoyable even. I have yet to meet a kid who doesn’t love pasta, or one who enjoys eggplants. Likewise, I [...]

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