Cuban Beef Picadillo with Potatoes Recipe

Cuban Beef Picadillo with Potatoes is a classic Cuban ground beef dish and one of our absolute favorites from childhood! It’s made with a base of Cuban-style sofrito (Spanish for sauté or stir-fry) and other ingredients that combine to make a fabulously flavorful sweet and savory dish that can be enjoyed alone, with the traditional sides of white rice…

Patatas Bravas (Spanish Fried Potatoes) with Chipotle Aioli Recipe

This Patatas Bravas with Chipotle Aioli Recipe is a twist on the classic, with a deliciously addictive spicy chipotle aioli that you will want to eat with everything! Serve it with a refreshing caña (a small beer) or an off-dry white wine, such as the Amalaya Torrontés Riesling featured below in this post.  Please note that this post contains one…

Fresh Fig, Manchego Cheese and Jamón Ibérico Salad Recipe

This Fresh Fig, Manchego Cheese and Jamón Ibérico Salad Recipe combines some of our favorite Spanish ingredients to make a beautifully vivid salad that is the perfect marriage of sweet with salty! Please note that this post contains one or more Amazon Affiliate links, which means that we will receive a small commission if you purchase an…

Gin Guava-tini Cava Cocktail

The Gin Guava-tini Cava Cocktail: Our First Signature Cocktail! HAPPY LABOR DAY! This long weekend has been all about perfecting our first Sweet and Sabroso signature cocktail: the Gin Guava-tini Cava Cocktail. Our goal was to create a cocktail that embodies the essence of our blog in a glass. Our Gin Guava-tini Cava Cocktail combines a Pinch of Spain…

Creamy Spanish Cold Tomato Soup (Salmorejo) Recipe

Salmorejo: Gazpacho’s Creamier Cousin Salmorejo is a Spanish chilled tomato soup similar to the ever-popular Spanish gazpacho. Unlike gazpacho, however, salmorejo involves the emulsification of olive oil with the tomatoes and bread, which makes it a lovely light orange color, thicker and creamier. So if you like gazpacho, you’re going to love salmorejo! Salmorejo: It’s…

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