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Biscochitos

Biscochitos Biscochitos, also known as bischos are golden buttery cookies enjoyed at weddings, baptisms and throughout the Christmas season. The original recipe was brought to Mexico by the Spanish in the 16th century and were called mantecados. The traditional shape served during weddings is a diamond shape to signify purity. Declared New Mexico’s official state cookie in 1989 these melt in your mouth cookies are made with anise and brandy. I personally enjoy them warm with my afternoon cup of coffee, but my girls love to dip them in chilled milk. Head over to the Imperial website for the recipe,… Read More

Coconut Horchata Muffins

Coconut Horchata Muffins Remember that dreamy, creamy horchata de coco I shared last week? It was a major hit at home with numerous requests to make it again and again. I made a double, triple batch over the weekend, so I would purposely have a few cups leftover to make these horchata muffins. These coconut horachta muffins are moist, tender and packed with horchata goodness. They bake up beautifully with round, domed tops in a pale light golden color. They are perfectly fine served warm, plain without frosting, but hey you only live once – let’s slather a… Read More

Slushy Watermelon Mojitos

Slushy Watermelon Mojitos Holy sweet summer watermelons, love’m –can’t get enough of their juicy goodness. In the last few days we, ahem ..I have consumed three watermelons, alone. For breakfast, juiced or in my salad for dinner they almost seem to get juicer and juicer the more I eat them. I decided to freeze a few cups of diced watermelon to add to my water or lemonade for the week. I freeze the diced watermelon on a baking sheet until firm then add to a freezer safe plastic bag and off to my freezer in the garage, where I am… Read More

Chipotle Chicken Tacos

This is a compensated campaign in collaboration with Cacique and Latina Bloggers Connect. Chipotle Chicken Tacos I enjoy hosting any major sporting event at my house, but I get stoked, really stoked to host Soccer games! I played soccer throughout my childhood until the age of 13 and boy was it fun. I was fortunate enough to be on the same team as my older sis and did we have some great times. Papi was very involved in our practices, games and training events that he has become quite the Soccer aficionado. Our family continues to be passionate about Soccer… Read More

Roasted Garlic Hummus Grits

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Sabra Dipping Co, LLC. for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine. I did not grow up eating grits; in fact all I knew of grits was the famous tagline from Flo on the Alice sitcom “kiss my grits.” Mi carino who grew up an hour from where I grew up knew grits all too well. His family enjoyed them with thick slabs of ham for breakfast, with fried chicken for dinner or with fried eggs as a midnight craving after a few too many beers with thick slabs of… Read More

Strawberry Moscato Granita

Strawberry Moscato Granita It’s Friday which means only one thing – Cocktail Friday! I’ve been crushing on Moscato lately. It is just sooo delish I can’t help myself, not to mention it is super versatile. Moscato can effortlessly be used to create a ton of simply amazing cocktails. Crisp, refreshing and addicting I always have a few bottles in my pantry, a few bottles in my fridge and a few bottles in my home bar, hey I’m a Moscato gal at heart. Recently I made a cucumber cooler with Moscato which was all the rave with my sisters’, before that… Read More

Horchata de Coco

Horchata de Coco The Texas temperatures lately have been playing with my emotions. One day bright with sunshine where I can enjoy a day at the beach and the next humid, overcast with chance of rain where we are stuck indoors the entire day, wah. Having lived in Texas all my life you think I would be used to these changes, but they still catch me off guard and on the days where I have sat in front of the computer since 5am I crave, long for a day outside with sun-shiny weather where I can enjoy a tall… Read More

Spicy Melon Infused Tequila

Spicy Melon Infused Tequila My home bar is pretty well stocked at all times with a few bottles of tequila that range in price, flavor and preference. I sip, create cocktails, cook and enjoy tequila in every form, but I will say this… infused tequila is a fun, creative, inexpensive way to savor tequila on a completely different level. Interested? I thought you would be… Making your own infused tequila is super simple and instead of buying the pre-made stuff loaded with who knows what, you can simply make it yourself at home and customize it to your little… Read More