I grew up eating flaky guava and cheese pastries like these empanadas from Latino bakeries and coffee shops, and the sweet tropical flavor has always tasted like home to me. The salty-sweet ...

Pastry chef Paola Velez uses homemade puff pastry to make these sweet, tangy pastries—which you may also find called pastelitos, pastelillos, or turnovers—stuffed with cream cheese and guava paste, a ...

Paola Velez makes guava and cheese bread pudding on this week’s episode of Pastries with Paola. As an Associate Food Editor, Bridget Hallinan primarily focuses on home cooking content for Food & ...

The following recipe and excerpt for Guava Cream Cheese Pastry are from “Miami Vegan: Plant-Based Recipes from the Tropics to Your Table” by Ellen Kanner. It’s available for purchase at Walmart. Puff ...

As a teenage Latina immigrant newly arrived in the United States, I remember feeling that the act of making holiday thumbprint cookies was a part of the process of becoming a “real” American, as ...

Last year around this time as I passed a neighbor’s house, a powerful sense of deja vu overwhelmed me and, out of nowhere, I was filled with pleasant memories of island vacations. Hawaii? What was it ...