TACO
Occasion: Any celebration calls for tacos as it is a quick and easy fix that feeds people on a budget friendly manner while being the center of attraction and a symbol of Latin cultural roots.
Ingredients: While the meat may vary in terms of animal and how it is cooked and what body part it is, this is essentially a tortilla, meat, cilantro, onions, and salsa (optional but strongly suggested).
Phở
Ingredients: It's generally made up of slim rice noodles within a soup and vegetables. The soup base is usually made with chicken and vegetables can be a variety of things from onions to bean sprouts.
Occasion: There isn't any real special occasions we eat it on besides when we want to or we're eating out as a family.
Flan
Ingredients:
-1 1/2 cups granulated sugar, divided
-6 large eggs
-1 14-ounce can of sweetened condensed milk
-2 13-ounce cans evaporated milk
-1 teaspoon vanilla
-pinch of salt
Occasion: Christmas Day and Thanksgiving
Syrniki
Ingredients:
-creamy quark
-flour
-eggs
-sugar
Occasion: Back in Ukraine we were making syrniki once a week, but now we stopped because my grandma didn't move to US.
Mole Poblano
Occasion: My birthday since it's my favorite dish.
Ingredients: The Mole Sauce is one third chocolate, two thirds spice. Put it over cooked chicken, with red rice and tortillas on the side.
Pasta
-Cheese
-Pasta noodles
-Seasoning
-Pesto or pasta sauce
Fried Chicken
Ingredients:
-Chicken
-Flour
-Seasoning*
Occasion: Birthdays, Thanksgiving, Easter, any holiday that you can BBQ on.
Vigoron
Ingredients: It's a cabbage salad known as curtido (chopped cabbage, tomatoes, onions, and chili pepper marinated in vinegar and salt), boiled yuca, and chicharrones (fried pork with skin or with meat).
Baleadas/Beans and Rice
Occasion: Everyday
Ingredients:
Baleadas
-tortillas
-cheese
Beans and Rice
-soup of beans
-fried rice