Category Archives: desserts

Recipes Tico-Style: Tres Leches

Tres leches is a magically decadent dessert. It’s not healthy, and it has no chocolate in it (although I bet, if you wanted to be a heathen, you could add chocolate), and that’s the sum total of what’s wrong with … Continue reading

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Recipes Malawi-style: Fudgey Brownies

I’m in Southern California because my other grandmother is in the hospital. Yesterday, I came back to my aunt’s house, and my cousin Sofy had a bowl in which she had been stirring together flour and an egg, because she … Continue reading

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