My Dominican Kitchen
Tasty Dominican & Latin-Inspired Recipes
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Side Dishes
These easy side dish recipes are the perfect accompaniment to all of your main meals. Find veggie, potato, salad, rice and bread recipes that are simple to make. From traditional Latin sides to your favorite American recipes, they are great for easy weeknight meals or for Thanksgiving and holiday feasts.
Fried Plantains are one of my favorite side dishes and my Sweet Potato Casserole is a Thanksgiving must!
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Meet Vanessa
Vanessa Mota is an award-winning food photographer, cookbook author, and nationally recognized content creator. Her love for food led her to create My Dominican Kitchen, a bilingual blog with authentic traditional Dominican recipes and Latin-inspired meals for home cooks, as a way to preserve her family’s recipes and share with the world the flavors of ‘la comida criolla’.
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