Tuna stuffed potato bombs

Here's is the recipe with which I tried to emulate a dish we eat every summer at the beach. These bombs are the perfect starter for a meal with friends or it could be a main for a children's dinner or lunch. I didn't have the recipe used by this restaurant at the beach that …

Pumpkin flan

  Hi, how are you doing? Today's recipe is very simple, perfect for this time of year when pumpkin is the star. After Halloween and while getting ready for thanksgiving, this flan is ideal as a final touch for any dinner or family meal. The crystallized lemon is a plus of decoration and flavor, and …

Duck magret with honey, raspebbies and balsamic vinegar

Last Holidays I wasn't sure at all about what to make for New Year's Eve dinner. And I didn't decide about it until the very last moment when my husband asked me for smoked ham with honey, pineapple and mustard. Looking for inspiration, I bought one duck magret  to test a recipe and see how it goes. But …

Egg braided bread

Merry Christmas! Here is a sneak peek into our Christmas Eve dinner. We had prawns and foie gras as starters, then turkey with ciabatta and roasted chestnuts stuffing (for the vegan in the family I made a delicious sweet potato curry) and an apple tart (pie) for dessert. Everything was delicious, the family was happy, we sang …

Pork sirloin with Pedro Ximenes sauce

Last post was only in Spanish. To compensate my Anglophone readers, this one is in English and it is also a pork recipe.  Just the other day a friend told me about this simple recipe with pork sirloin and sherry, today I thought it would be the perfect dish for our family lunch to celebrate …

Neopanamax: Pesada de Nance

  After almost four weeks of vacation in Panama, I came back recharged and full of ideas and Panamanian recipes to publish here at BlueJellybeans. The first recipe is one that perhaps only could be made while in Panama, because its main ingredient is Nance, a small yellow fruit native of Panama and other tropical …

2015 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog. Here's an excerpt: The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 94,000 times in 2015. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 4 days for that many people to see …

Christmas time!

Three Christmas cookies to start the season on the right foot...

Sweet green papaya – Dulce de papaya verde

Green papaya sweet As in previous years, I take this time to commemorate the national holidays celebrated during the month of November in Panama. Today's recipe is perfect for this, since it is one of the most typical sweets of my country. It originated in the countryside and in the kitchens of the interior, it …

Pumpkin Bars

I am way behind on my posts... this one have been pending since November! (yes, since Thanksgiving...) But I didn't want 2014 to end without publishing this fantastic recipe, courtesy of a coworker. The original version is for a delicious pumpkin pie. But it needs a slightly smaller baking pan that the ones I had …