As you gear up for the holidays and plan for holiday entertaining, you’re most likely seeking easy holiday appetizer ideas to serve your guests! With so many options available – from fun dips and cheese balls to baked brie with fruit – it can be hard to choose. I am a fan of serving appetizers […]
empanada recipes
Sweet Chili Chicken & Rice Empanadas {Recipe}
Empanadas are a wonderfully easy-to-make appetizer and one that I not only love to eat, but am happy to say, my family has grown to love as well! Though I grew up calling them pastelillos in Puerto Rico, my kids have come to know them as empanadas, much like the majority of Latin America calls […]
Cheesy BBQ Chicken Empanadas, Easy Game Day Appetizer! {Recipe}
Football season is in full swing – I know this because each weekend my Facebook feed is filled with various game updates! Though we’re not fans of any particular team, we periodically sit and watch a game. It can be fun for the kids to learn a bit about the sport and it’s especially fun […]
Sweet Potato & Cream Cheese Empanadas {Recipe}
Recently, I’ve been making a lot of empanadas at our house, which we call pastelillos. My kids are really loving the pastelillos de pizza (pizza empanadas) I introduced to them and they’re also fond of pastelillos de queso (cheese empanadas). The other day I wanted to play with the flavor of sweet potatoes to see […]
Fun After-School Snack Idea: Pastelillos de Pizza (Pizza Empanadas) {Recipe}
When living in Puerto Rico, we used to eat all kinds of pastelillos, more commonly referred to throughout the rest of Latin America as either empanadillas or empanadas (and sometimes pastelitos too). The fillings varied from pastelillos de carne (ground beef empanadas) to pastelillos de cangrejo (crab empanadas), but some of the most unique pastelillos […]
