Azúcar Bakery

Last week was our first market day ever! Thank you to Cheryl Puryear for her amazing event management of the Hendersonville Farmers & Artisan Market. We feel so blessed to have been folded in to such an amazing community.

As a Puerto Rican, not having sofrito in the fridge is like the sun not rising in the morning. It is a much needed staple in our cooking. Can we make our dishes without it? Yeah sure, but we would need to spend time chopping, mincing and sautéing green peppers, onions, garlic, cilantro, and culantro in our stews, soups, rice and bean dishes. Though it is used all around the Caribbean, in Puerto Rico, we call it “recaito”. The pungent herb recao (aka culantro) and ajíes dulces (sweet chili peppers) are the contributing flavor profiles to recaito. I can’t wait for the community to taste the dishes that I incorporate in.