After a very inspiring trip to Argentina and Uruguay, we are back in the kitchen and getting ready for a very busy year ahead. We are excited to be teaching a sold out class at Relish Culinary Adventures in Healdsburg on February 14 for Valentine’s…
Nothing says I love you like charcuterie and cheese! Is there anything better with a crusty fresh baguette and a bottle of bubbles? Photo courtesy of http://www.yuzustudios.com/
Argentina’s famous sweet condiment is dangerously easy to develop a love for. Especially when it is served in a multitude of creative and delicious ways at every meal of the day. After much deliberation, here’s our list of our favorite dulce de leche bites:
1. Piping hot, crispy churro, rolled in cinnamon sugar and filled with dulce.
2. White chocolate alfajor cookie – a layer of thick dulce de leche sandwiched between two cookies & then bathed in white chocolate.
3. Dulce de leche granizado gelato – wafer thin shavings of dark chocolate folded into rich, salty sweet dulce de leche gelato.
4. Dulce de leche Volcano – a warm, molten dulce de leche cake, served with a side of banana gelato.
5. Dulce de leche frappachino – dulce de leche gelato, shot of espresso, dulce de leche sauce, whipped cream and chocolate shavings.
Going to Punte del Este and not eating a Chivito would be like going to Coney Island and not eating a hot dog. Actually it would be worse. Chivito is the ultimate Uruguayan snack attack. It’s like a sandwich within a sandwich. It’s like Homer…
We read restaurant write-ups with a healthy dose of skepticism in mind. But when Bon Appetit magazine called La Huella “the restaurant at the end of the world” in it’s July 2012 issue, it immediately sounded like the kind of place worth making the trek…
