Guanabana – Soursop Soursop is a very large fruit found in tropical America. The Soursop skin is dark green and spiny (not prickly), while the meat is white and aromatic. It can be eaten raw when ripe, or in milk shakes, desserts, sherbets, ice creams. Frozen or...
Coconut – Coco The coconut is the fruit or nut of one of the most beautiful and noble of all palms. It is a very important factor in the survival of the Caribbean people. Every part of the tree is used. The trunk and palm frond are used for burning as well as the old...
Bananas – Guineos What can you say about bananas that hasn’t been said before? Not much. So I won’t get into a description. Even though I really don’t like them fresh, they are a great source of potassium and one of the biggest food sources in...
Fruits I eat a lot of fruits, fresh, in some dish or preserved, I can’t live without them. Summer is my favorite time of the year because cherries and the berries are all in season and cheap. We keep a little bowl of cherries on the kitchen counter and we get...
Bacon Wrapped Turkey with Stuffing Growing up in the Dominican Republic, I had a different idea as to what turkey was supposed to taste like. First of all, you ordered your turkeys from the turkey farm way in advance or you were not going to get one for Christmas (we...
Arañitas de Yuca – Fried Yuca spiders Arañitas (ñ in Spanish is pronounced like the “nio” in onion in English.) They can also be called arepitas. These were a regular staple in our house growing up. Mainly, because we all loved them. No matter how...
