Category: chamorro food
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boñelos aga
These are banana donuts. Or doughnuts, whichever you prefer. The recipe is from Guam, but I added a few ingredients that are usually not in the original recipe, like vanilla extract and cinnamon. There is another traditional donut recipe that utilizes a specific yam instead of bananas, but that kind of yam is difficult to…
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coconut mango latiya
Hello! What a long week it has been! How is everyone? I don’t know how it feels for other food bloggers, but sometimes for me it feels rather odd to blog about something like pastry cream when there are a number of serious current events in one’s country and around the world. Does that make…
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pan de leche
Milk Buns. Milk bread is the literal translation. Not that there is a lot of milk in it; there is only 1/2 cup. But it is soft and white and reminiscent of milk. I like how soft and fluffy these are. You can probably make this without the vital wheat gluten, but it may get…
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Chamorro Style Empanadas (Chamoru Empanadas)
This is the empanada I grew up with. Not that I ate a great many of them; I probably have only eaten 10 of these in my life. And I’ve never made them. Until now! If you are not familiar with these orange colored, deep-fried beauties, they may seem a bit odd. Unless of course, you are Chamoru, or…
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What I had for Thanksgiving
Usually we have turkey, sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, green beans, and gravy. For some reason, we wanted to break with tradition! This year, being that my sister couldn’t host this year, we decided to just have a small get together with my brother at our place, and to cook whatever we wanted. That ended up being sort of…
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