My Big Fat Cuban Family

Winner!

2010-02-08T12:00:02-08:00

I love giveaways. But I hate to choose just one person. What a conundrum! So I go to Random.org. and I enter all of your names and it chooses for me, thereby sparing me the pain. ;-) Without further ado,...

I heart olive oil.

2010-02-04T16:22:29-08:00

I don't know what staple of my kitchen I love more than olive oil. Extra virgin olive oil to be exact. (Please don't call it EVOO in my presence, that's just weird. Thank you.) So I was delighted when the...

Nature and Nurture

2010-02-01T08:50:21-08:00

I homeschool my kids. Lucy is now 16 and a junior in high school. Jonathan just turned 14 and is in 8th grade. We've been at this wonderful, terrifying, exasperating, delicious experiment for the past 8 years and in retrospect,...

Gimme Shelter

2010-01-28T11:32:00-08:00

1. We've been doing weather. 2. I decided to make homemade chicken soup, Cuban-style. (I know. Shut up.) But.... 3. I had my (95 year old, very, very opinionated!) CUBAN mom with me when I made it. That means that...

Fresh and Easy Does It Every Time!

2010-01-28T04:21:35-08:00

The following post has been brought to you by the lovely and talented Kikita (who is still practicing her cooking skills). There are perks to being Mami's "driver/photographer." I get to see and do a lot of cool things. I'm...

Birth of an Heirloom

2010-01-25T09:16:00-08:00

There are things that I treasure, not because they have monetary value, but because they are special to me. That's the way I decorate my home. I ask: Do I love it? Does it have meaning to me? If I...

"Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."

2010-01-21T14:33:27-08:00

We're having weather here in So Cal. According to the Weather Service, it's Severe Weather. (Which is weatherman speak for it's-been-raining-like-crazy-all-week-and-we-don't-know-what-to-wear-or-how-to-drive, but that's not important right now.) In the past two days there have been tornado watches and sleet and...

Ab Fab

2010-01-20T23:26:14-08:00

I've been helping my friend, Tamera (she of the Amazing Good Taste and Style) put together a blog. (I am super excited about this project, as I believe she is the Embodiment of Fabulousness and can't wait for her to...

The Writing is On the Wall

2010-01-18T02:15:32-08:00

We have lived in our current home for nine years now. Before that we were bottom-dwelling-month-to-month renters. (Not to disparage the month-to-month thing, but it was such a grand and glorious feeling to finally own our own home that it...

Epicuriouser and curiouser...

2010-01-11T22:52:53-08:00

So, I'm still recovering from the Comelatas that defined the month of December for me. And I'm still struggling to migrate my files from the old Mac G5 to the new (Thank you, God and my sweet husband!) Macbook Pro...