I love dough. I love eating it and making it. And I love all types of dough: cookie dough, cake dough, pizza dough… but then there is pasta dough. Pasta dough should have its own pedestal of greatness. For me it is the hardest yet most filling (haha carbs, of course!) dough. So I had […]
Peras Calaveras de Chocolate Blanco – Especial Día de Muertos
AAAHHH!! CALAVERAAAAS!! Tranquilos no tengan miedo, no muerden. ¡Pero créanme que ustedes sí querrán morderlas a ellas! Como ven, son súper amigables y “cooquettas“ 😉 Se acerca la temporada de disfraces, sustos y dulces por todas partes (la época del año más feliz para los dentistas, ¡seguro!) y tenía ganas de hacer algo que sirviera para […]
Veggie Explosion + The Vegetarian Flavor Bible Giveaway!
Can veggies cause addiction? Maybe if they look like this: No, your eyes aren’t fooling ya. These are veggies, in all their glory. What makes this dish BEYOND divine are the various yummy components that play so well together, Karen and Andrew would be proud :)! This power couple just released what I would call […]
Chuleta con Tajadas – Receta Hondureña
¡No hay otro pueblo más macho, que el pueblo catracho del cuál vengo yoooo! Para el pasado Día de la Raza (12 de octubre) me propuse celebrar a mi tierra Honduras cocinando y disfrutando de un rico plato típico: chuleta con tajadas. Yo soy de La Ceiba (o Ceibita la bella como le dicen algunos) […]
La Feria de Los Moles 2014
El 29 de septiembre se dieron cita dos grandes para defender un delicioso título y deleitar a la vez a mucha gente hambrienta. ¿La pelea? A ver quién tenía el mole más rico: ¡Puebla o Oaxaca! Esto fue señoras y señores: La Feria de Los Moles 2014 La verdad es que el mole que más se […]
Carrot Cake Cheesecake – a match made in Cake Heaven!
The leaves have slightly started to change colors, the days have gotten shorter and I am not melting inside my apartment anymore… yes people: Fall has officially begun!! And the best thing that it brings with it is FALL BAKING SEASON! 🙂 You will start noticing a lot more cakes and pies and cookies and […]
Write your guts out, but be specific! – Writing recipes with The Gluten Free Girl at IFBC
What do you feel when writing a recipe? Is the process similar to what a tornado would cause by setting its tail on your kitchen? Or do you always measure your ingredients up to the tiniest millimeters? Well, you don’t have to be a chef to know that cooking is liberating. Every dish, every type […]
La Cooquette preps up for IFBC 2014 Seattle
La Cooquette’s team is going to their first food bloggers’ conference… AAAA! Wait… A what? One would normally think this is only a made-up, seemingly “serious” event revolving around food. And if half of it were real, so what? But hey, I’m not making this up and the International Food Bloggers Conference (IFBC 2014), organized […]
Receta de Chilaquiles Verdes y Rojos – Independencia de México
Amigos mexicanos (o cualquiera a quien le guste celebrar lo bueno): ¿Listos para pegar El Grito? Pues si no lo están, preparen fuerzas con esta mega receta de un plato que, si conocen México, saben que no puede faltar en los hogares mexicanos. Una rica banderaaa…. No, ¡pero una bandera de CHILAQUILES! Hecha con Chilaquiles […]
How to Hack Chipotle’s Catering (or how I catered for 40 people in 2 and a half hours)
Read this article if you want to learn more about my adventure and tips on how to hack Chipotle’s Catering for 40 people.