These yummy little apple empanadas are the second empanada we made during week three of our Cooking Around the World: Spain course. They are the sweet, Spain/Latin American fusion sister to our ancient Empanada D’Atun savory tuna with olives and tomato empanada. The Empanada de Manzana (apple empanada) was created when Spanish conquerors brought empanadas…

Week three of our Cooking Around the World: Spain course is Empanada Week! We are making a traditional classic savory empanada called Emapanada d’Atun and a more modern Spain/Latin America fusion sweet empanada or Empanada Dolce. These two empanadas give a nice picture of where the concept of empanadas got started (around 600 AD) and…

I have always been intimidated by paella. It is one of those dishes that feels like you can only have in Spain after it’s made in a massive pan over a roaring fire. Then I remind myself that cooking at home is one of my favorite ways to transport myself around the world. This paella…

If you haven’t experienced the joy that is a whoopie pie, let me enlighten you. It’s basically that cupcake hack that took Pinterest by storm about 10 years ago where you rip a cupcake in half and stack it with the frosting in the middle. Except you just make them purposefully convenient and you don’t…

Happy September everyone! September 1st means the start of school in many places and getting back to the structure of non-summer life. I also think of it as pre-fall, we are one month closer to cooler weather here in Texas. September is also Hunger Action Month: a month where people all over America stand together…