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Name: Pastel Borracho (drunken cake)
Eaten in: Colombia
Category: Modern
If you ever have some extra rum in your kitchen, and you’d rather use it in a way that won’t have you do anything you regret…
Name: Sweet potato pone
Eaten in: Caribbean, South of United States
I was on a sweet potato roll! After the pudding and the cake, I decided to make sweet potatoes a third way, as a dessert still. I had come across a “pone” recipe in one of my cookbooks. It looked fairly similar to the pudding recipe, with some additional ingredients. I secretly wished it was a faster way to get a dish that resembled the boniatillo cake I was raving about in an earlier post. …
I am a big believer in the expression «less is more» or, as I prefer to say it «how to turn a simple/ordinary/common recipe into something original ?» This expression perfectly applies to this Orange French Toast recipe I love…
I have to begin with saying that I am not sure that “caramelized peanuts” accurately describes those treats. When I think of caramel, I immediately think of something brown, moderately sticky and yummy. These peanuts miss a little bit of the stickiness factor, but none of the yummy factor! …
