My daughter has entered that phase of toddlerhood where she will not try new things without a major fight. Even new sugary sweets are a no go. So feeding her has become a bit more complex. Well, at least feeding her healthy food has become more complex. The biggest problem for me is what to leave…
Szechuan Spiced Chicken Wings
After a prolonged absence I am back, with a recipe I’m super excited to share with you. I’ve been meaning to come back for a while, but, I wanted to make sure I came back with a recipe you’d be excited about. Something a little different but totally “me” all at the same time. Something…
Rotini Con Salsa Fresca
Growing up I loved pasta salad. I ate it all the time until I was about 7 or 8 years old. Then, for whatever reason, I stopped eating it. A few years ago I tried it again and was sorely disappointed. The dish I had loved so much as a child tasted horrible. The dressing,…
Kale, Mushrooms, Navy Beans and Chicken over Quinoa
5 years ago when I first started working at Microsoft a coworker and I were discussing the dinners we’d had the night before. She told me she had made a stir fry with something called Mustard Greens. I had never heard of it before and found myself, intrigued. Would they taste like mustard? It looked…
Chicken and Rice For a Crowd
You would think that with my history of chicken and rice I can make it in any quantity and for any crowd. That I could make it in a house or make it for a mouse or make it here or there, that I could make it anywhere! Sadly, that is not the case. A…
Harrod’s Food Hall, aka the Forbidden Food Photographs
I have done a bad thing. I have angered the Twinning’s Tea Man. Not only did I photograph the food halls at Harrod’s department store, I continued to do so after I was told by the Twinnings Tea Man that I must not do so. I am likely to serve time for this, surely I…
Paella de Mariscos
We had a dinner party at our house last night with two dear friends, Omeed and Rachel. Rachel has recently returned from a trip to Europe, in which she ran the Paris marathon and took a cooking class in Barcelona! So proud of her for the former and so jealous of the latter. We have…
Kale and cannellini bean stew with a side of GMAT
The last 5 months have been terribly busy for me. Between moving house, my responsibilities at work tripling and studying for the GMAT, I barely had a free moment to eat, let alone cook anything. I just kept my head down, nose in the books/computer and my mind focused on the November 3rd 12:45 test…
Frijoles Negros (Cuban Black Beans)
There is nothing more Cuban than black beans and rice. Period. Not even sugar or cigars. Therefore, whenever I came home from college a little too white washed my dad would say I needed an infusion of black beans and rice. Whenever we had our non-Cuban friends over for dinner and my mom served this…
Lechon Asado
In Cuban cuisine, Lechon refers to a whole pig marinated in mojo and cooked either over a fire or, as is more common now in Miami, in La Caja China. Now a days, however, the name is used as a sort of blanket term for any pork roast cooked in mojo. It is the main…
Lamb with Moorish Influences
Perhaps it is due to the weather being sunny and then quickly returning to a wintery grey with freezing temperatures that put me in a stew frame of mind. Or, perhaps it is simply that I love a sticky and unctuous lamb stew on any night of the week, regardless of the weather. Either way,…
Salsa Pomodoro – Fresh Tomato Sauce with Pork Chops
I was lucky enough to spend two summers singing in Italy while I was in college and as you can imagine I ate a lot of pasta. Although it made me sick at times, I absolutely loved it. The sauces tasted nothing like what I was used to back home and the pizza wasn’t like…
Cuisine d'Emma 