Day: February 21, 2012

Lunch

I am eating grilled tacos… again.  Will I ever tire of these crispy morsels?  Doubtful, as the fillings change daily… but it isn’t the grilled taco I want to share, it is the side! Nopalitos ~ don’t let it’s prickly personality scare you away… just trim the spikes, cook ’em up, and you may have found…

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Travel ~

“I’ve been everywhere, man! I’ve been everywhere!”  I can’t sing it like Hank Snow or Johnny Cash, but Geoff Mack knew what he was doing when he wrote this catchy little tune!  And thank God the military allows us to wander around in some of these places ~ either for a day, a long weekend, or…

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Mmmm… coffee

Today marks day 46 ~ 46 days of no sugar, no caffeine, lots of working out and a grilled taco at every meal.  Ok, the grilled taco thing is a slight exaggeration, but really, 46 days of no sugar, no caffeine?  Today I have decided to put the kibosh on my hiatus from that dark,…

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Originally posted on hungry sofia:
It’s always strange to me when I see flan listed as special on a dessert menu.  Far from specialized in Cuban restaurants, it’s not rare to find an all-flan menu – de leche, de queso, de calabaza, de mamey and of course – de coco.  Yet somehow I never get…