Casabe (cassava bread)

If you don’t know what casabe (cassava bread) is, Aunt Ilana wrote a fantastic article that explains it all. You’d be well-served to read it. If you know what casabe is, you are probably asking yourself why I have to write a recipe for it. After all, Dominicans just don’t make casabe at home. We [...]

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Gift set for urban gardeners

Sorry for the hiatus in the giveaways, we have been moving the blogs to a new host, so it gets a bit complicated and some messages could be lost. We wanted to make sure to have all our ducks in a row before having a new one. This time we have a gardening set for [...]

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Potato, chicken and kale summer salad

This post is sponsored by Mizkan. More details below. For the last few weeks I have been repeating how mild this year’s temperature have been. Sure half the world was plunked into one of the coldest winters of late, but for us living in the tropics that was such a nice respite from our usual [...]

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Seafood black rice

This stunning Spanish seafood black rice is one of my favorite dishes. For a seafood lover such as myself, it’s just perfect: jam-packed with seafood and strong ocean flavors. It speaks of summer and lazy days to me. As soon as the days started warming up I was back to my old love. And speaking [...]

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My Dominican food: Karel Kalaf – Musician

We continue our “My Dominican Food” series of interviews with Dominicans by birth and adoption from various artistic disciplines. This time our guest is Dominican musician Karel Kalaf. What is your favourite dish (to eat)? Well, like many Dominicans I’ve always been a rice fanatic. I like it in every way: White, brown, moro de [...]

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