While it’s nothing fancy, I thought I’d share with you how we’re keeping the Olympic theme going in our house…with the iconic rings….and the healthy snacks!
Watching the Olympics with my little guy!
Hoping that you are enjoying the Games…we are. We are also enjoying those glimpses of rainbow from the athletes!
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It was another summer Friday in the neighborhood and that called for another festive cocktail. Riding high on the success of last session’s passionfruit mojitos, I decided to make mango mojitos. The drink itself followed much the same construction, but the mango was decidedly sweeter than the passionfruit, so I decided that it needed a […]
Summer evenings in the neighborhood can be wonderful. Occasionally on a Friday some of us neighbors bring out folding chairs and sit together in one front yard for a bit of happy hour while the kids go mental on someone else’s lawn. It’s pretty much BYO, but we do mix up a pitcher of experimental […]
We spent the better part of last summer in Puerto Rico, and among the tasty things that my little guy fell in love with was tembleque, a jiggly (temblar means to tremble) dessert that falls somewhere between pudding and flan. I promised him we’d make it back in New York, and this weekend, for a […]
When the heat gets tropical, so should the drinks. On a recent trip to the mountains of Puerto Rico, I was inspired by a wonderfully cooling and exotic sangría I had up around and about El Yumque (Caribbean National Forest, the only tropical rainforest in the U.S. Forest Service system) at Noelia’s, recommended to us […]
There are a number of land crab species skittering about Caribbean coastlines. Some are edible and the one we eat most here in Puerto Rico (although I am told they mostly are imported from Venezuela these days) is Cardisoma guanhumi which we call juey and — if you are English-speaking — you might call the […]
Ha ha – I’m avoiding them 😉
This is one of those times i would like to have a TV. These people are so talented, top of their fields .. fun to watch.. c
It is lovely to watch with the little man. He has so many questions! I haven’t paid that much attention to anything but the World Cup (soccer) in years, so I’d forgotten how fun it is.