Several culinary styles claim sofrito as theirs. I don’t care so much about where it originated as much as the amazing depth and savory goodness it can add to my recipes today. In its simplest form, ...

Like many Puerto Rican matriarchs, my abuela was notorious for reusing branded food containers to store anything. The biggest containers were usually giant tubs of butter filled with a fresh, green ...

*the salt content in this recipe helps to keep and cure the sofrito so when adding as a base to your food, there’s usually no need to season as much if any. Always taste your food before seasoning.

Ask a Puerto Rican chef (or, frankly, anyone from Puerto Rico) what defines the island's cuisine, and they'll absolutely respond with one delicious word: sofrito. The heart of Latin Caribbean food and ...

SAN ANTONIO – Happy National Slow Cooker Month! Today, we’re celebrating with Beef Loving Texans’ slow cooker brisket sofrito. Check out the recipe below. Slow cookers can make so much more than soups ...

Chef Yadira Garcia stopped by 30 Rock on Sunday to share her sofrito recipe with Jen Maxfield. "Nothing makes me happier than making food that's nutritious and delicious," Garcia said. 3. Store in a ...

I got the idea for this Cuban-Style Sofrito from Rachel Ray. She says her version does everything but make the beds (a potentially off-color remark). I made some changes for my version: where Rachel ...

This is a one-dish quick and easy dinner. Chicken and rice made with Puerto Rican sofrito is the secret to this dish. Sofrito is a seasoning sauce used in many Spanish, Caribbean and Latin American ...

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What luck Charles Pierre Gaston Francois de Lévis had. He began his public life at a deficit, “an incompetent and mediocre individual,” wrote the great Pierre Larousse, as quoted in the “Oxford ...