Adriana Velez

Jun 19, 2024 | boomermagazine.com | Andrea Rivera Wawrzyn |Annie Tobey |Patty Catalano |Adriana Velez

I’m gonna be real with you: I’m not into sweet beans (I’m a savory gal myself). So you won’t find me stocking my pantry with cans of baked beans or ordering them on the side of my barbecue. This is why I was intrigued when I came across cowboy beans for the first time. Cowboy beans strike a great balance between sweet and savory. They’re not as sweet as traditional baked beans, but not as savory as the kind of beans I typically cook and serve over rice.

Jun 12, 2024 | seniorsguide.com | Adriana Velez |Brian Marsh | |Sara Haas

Recipes 6/12/2024 | By Adriana Velez Food writer Adriana Velez recreates the easy blender salsa that her dad would make using the products available in their suburban Denver grocery stores. Her father was born in Jalisco, Mexico, but the fresh salsa recipe uses easily accessible U.S. ingredients. The four-ingredient salsa comes together in 15 minutes from start to finish and will keep in the fridge for two weeks.

Jun 12, 2024 | boomermagazine.com | Annie Tobey |Patty Catalano |Adriana Velez |JeanMarie Brownson

Berry pavlova can sweeten a Fourth of July celebration or any occasion – or just an everyday non-occasion. The sweet and lightly crunchy meringue base is graced with strawberry sauce, whipped cream, and red and blue berries. You can make a pie-sized pavlova or tart-sized single-serving shells. A pavlova is similar to a baked meringue shell, with a few small differences. Both are made with sweetened whipped egg white and sugar, whipped till forming stiff peaks.

Jun 5, 2024 | boomermagazine.com | Patty Catalano |Adriana Velez |JeanMarie Brownson |Lauren Wicks

Turn chocolate and peanut butter into the ultimate summer dessert with No-Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Bars. Keep the kitchen as cool as the tasty treat on your plate. Just because your oven is out-of-office this summer doesn’t mean you can’t serve delicious desserts. No-bake desserts are ready to fill in when it’s too hot to bake.

May 31, 2024 | boomermagazine.com | Adriana Velez |JeanMarie Brownson |Lauren Wicks |Katie Leaird

Five simple ingredients, including fresh chiles, processed in a blender, and served – Dad’s Blender Salsa Fresca is easy and delicious. My dad made two things when I was growing up: Saturday morning pancakes and salsa. Both were foods of adaptation. He is a Tapatio, a native of Guadalajara, Jalisco, who immigrated to the U.S. at the age of 21. He taught himself how to make the classic American breakfast for his American-born children.