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At Home? Time to Cook!

By Mary Ogle
| Photography by Alfredo Añez
| March 17, 2020

Staying at home? Great time to cook and bake! We’ve rounded up some of our favorite easy recipes that use seasonal ingredients and items likely to be in your pantry.

Banana Pancakes

Local bananas, packed with flavor, can be so sweet you may not need to add any syrup! Make your own

Banana-Nut Carrot Cake

This layer cake looks homespun and humble, but it's super-moist and full of spicy flavor. Toasted walnuts add richness.

Chicken Tortilla Soup

Local avocados, in season nearly year-round, add color and buttery flavor to this favorite Mexican soup.

Cuban Coffee Doughnut Bread Pudding

Have your cafe con leche and doughnut all in one! Dark cafe cubano cuts the sweet edge on this creamy

Friendship Bread

This recipe is the one Natalie Segal uses. We have baked this recipe many times and recommend the following adjustments:

Lemon Blueberry Scones

Local Heirloom Tomato and Beet Salad with Green Beans, Blue Cheese, and Walnut Vinaigrette

From Chef Michael Schwartz of Michael’s Genuine Food & Drink, Miami’s Design District

Orange Ginger Cookies

Tangy orange and peppery ginger - fresh and candied -pair perfectly in these chewy cookies.

Oranges in Rum, Cuban Style

Look for local guava jelly to use in Maida Heatter's recipe, from Happiness is Baking,

Pasta with Tomato and Onion Sauce

When Italian cooking maestra Marcella Hazan died in 2013, this was the most-shared recipe by her fans – perhaps because

Potato Pesto Salad

Preserved Eggplant

Lots of eggplant in the market? Set some aside to make this no-cook recipe.

Roasted Carrot and Coconut Soup

Coconut milk adds creamy sweetness to this rich soup. Look for local carrots at the farmers market.

Roasted Lemon Pepper French Beans

If you don't have sliced almonds, try sesame seeds. This recipe is easily doubled.

Simple Yeast Bread

Masa Madre baker Lucia Meneses came up with this step-by-step recipe for foolproof yeast bread.

Swiss Chard, Onion and Tomato Frittata

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