47 recipes found
Butternut Squash Soup (Crema de Calabaza)
Roasted butternut squash blended with a slow sofrito, homemade stock, and a pinch of smoked pimentón, finished with sherry vinegar, toasted pepitas, and crumbled cheese.
Pecan Pie (Tarta de Nueces Pecanas)
Toasted pecans set in a glossy brown-sugar caramel, no corn syrup required. Tempering the eggs into the warm caramel is the one technique that separates a silky filling from a curdled one. Uses the same crust as Dutch Apple Pie and Pumpkin Pie.
Pumpkin Pie (Tarta de Calabaza)
A silky pumpkin custard baked in a blind-baked crust, using a two-stage oven temperature so the edges set fast while the center finishes gently, without cracking. Uses the same crust as Dutch Apple Pie and Pecan Pie.
Dutch Apple Pie (Tarta de Manzana Holandesa)
Tart-sweet apples baked under a craggy brown-sugar crumb topping instead of a woven lattice. The site's first pastry-dough recipe — cold butter is the whole secret, and once you've got the crust down, it's the same one behind Pumpkin Pie and Pecan Pie too.
Pumpkin Bread (Bizcocho de Calabaza)
A moist, deeply spiced quick bread built on real canned pumpkin, not pumpkin pie filling. One bowl, no mixer, the fall bake that actually delivers on flavor.
White Chicken Chili (Chili Blanco de Pollo)
A creamy, thick chili built from chicken and white beans instead of beef and tomatoes. Cream cheese stirred in off the heat at the end gives it a tangy, glossy body without any flour or roux.
Slow Cooker Pot Roast (Asado de Ternera en Olla Lenta)
Chuck roast, carrots, celery, and pearl onions, set it in the morning and come home eight hours later to a fork-tender dinner with its own gravy already made.
Reverse-Seared Ribeye (Entrecot con Sellado Inverso)
A thick-cut ribeye goes low in the oven first, then gets a hard cast-iron sear at the very end. The reverse-sear method steakhouses use to cook a steak evenly edge to edge, with no gray overcooked band under the crust.
Peach Upside-Down Cake (Tarta Invertida de Melocotón)
Peaches caramelize right in a cast iron skillet in butter and brown sugar, then bake under a simple vanilla cake and flip out warm, caramel-side up. One pan, one flip, no candy thermometer required.
Jiffy Corn Casserole (Pastel de Maíz)
Sweet corn muffin mix, two forms of corn, and sour cream for richness. This is the potluck casserole that gets requested by name, ready in under an hour with almost no technique required.
Smoked Beef Brisket (Pecho de Ternera Ahumado)
Texas-style smoked brisket: just salt, pepper, and low, patient smoke. The whole recipe is refusing to rush the stall and wrapping in butcher paper instead of foil so the bark survives.
Oven-Roasted Pork Belly (Panceta de Cerdo al Horno)
A four-ingredient rub, an overnight rest in the fridge, and two hours in the oven turn pork belly into deeply caramelized, fall-apart-tender slices.
