Mother's Day is next week, people.
It always comes on the 2nd weekend in May. And yet, I'm always surprised that it comes so soon after the month starts. What's that about?
Anyway, because I love you, and I know that you love Cuban coffee as much as I do, I have fabulous news:
My good friends at Gaviña & Sons Coffee have offered to sponsor a La Llave Cuban Coffee Basket for a Mother's Day Giveaway. The beauty of this is that the Gaviña family is Cuban and they know espresso.
The La Llave Cuban Coffee Basket for Mother's Day consists of the following:
- 2- 10oz. Cafe La Llave espresso bricks
- 1- 8.8oz. Cafe La Llave decaf. espresso brick
- 4- 1.75oz. Cafe La Llave espresso samples
- 4- "tacitas" demitasse cups and saucers
It's a beautiful thing, right?
1) To enter this drawing for this beautiful Cafe La Llave Cuban Coffee Basket, please leave a comment on this post and answer one or both of the following questions:
- How do you like your espresso? Straight up? With espumita? Cortadito?
- How many times a day do you drink it?
Please leave your comment on this post and I'll choose a winner on Monday, 6thth, 2013 at 11am PST.
2) For an extra entry, please go "like" Cafe La Llave on Facebook and come back and leave me another comment telling me:
- "I like Cafe La Llave!"
So that's not one, but two entries apiece. You're welcome. Mami will love it. I promise. Also, please let them know that Marta from My Big, Fat, Cuban Family sent you. (I don't get extra points for that or anything. I just want them to know you are reading about it here, but that's not important right now.)
{Disclaimer: Gaviña Gourmet Coffee has graciously provided this Cafe La Llave Gift Basket as a giveaway. I have received no compensation for this. I just truly love them.}
I “like” Cafe La Llave on FB!
I love my espresso fuerte con espumita!
Yes, please!!! Pick me lolol. Cuban in LA transplanted from Miami in desperate need!
PS… I already like your FB page. Double entry???
I Love my espresso con espumita like my grandma used to make for me in Miami
Que rico! Cafesito dos veses al dia con un poquitico de leche y splenda.
Con espumita of course! 3xs a day! 🙂 (more if there’s company)
Con espumita por favor ! Y por lo menos tres veces a dia , Que Rico !
I like Cafe La Llave por que es la clave!
I like Cafe La Llave!
Con espumita ofcourse! and I drink it all day whenever I need a boost 🙂
This would be the greatest gift for my grandma!! I would love to surprise her with this lovely basket!! <3
The Llave to my Heart, Espresso Cuban Style
Cortadito todos los dias a la hora que sea y las voces que sea! Cuban coffee runs in my veins! <3
I <3 CAFE period!! Hot or cold day and night 😀 For us Cubans it's in our veins!!!! <3
“I like Cafe La Llave!”
Pick my mom please! She’s been so sad, and working so hard taking care of my dad who suffered a TIA stroke last week. They drink LA LLave all the time, and she needs something to put a smile on get face.Thank You!
With sugar, a little more sugar, and then maybe a little more sugar depending on the day. I’m in Tampa, which isn’t bad, but moving to Ohio soon. Please send me off with some deliciousness.
I like my espresso bold and sweet con bastante azucar 😉 A must-have every morning to make my cafe con leche! And honestly, La Llave always hits the spot. Always at LEAST x1 a day and some days x2-3 to beat that mid-day sleepiness 🙂
I like Cafe La Llave!
Oh Marti… you know how I LOVE my coffees!!! I drink any type of espresso/coffee with a touch of sugar and sweet cream. Pick me… pick me!!!Love you my friend 🙂
I like Cafe La Llave!
I like it straight up, with lots of sugar, sweet. I also like it with espuminta. I have cafecito three times a day.
With espumita all the way..taka taka:)I rarely drink it since it seems to give me a slight heart attack but it’s my guilty pleasure once in a while:)
Have to have my Cuban coffee every morning to wake up! Un cortadito con espuma, y despues un cafe con leche! La Llave is the best Cuban coffee around — Love it!
I like Cafe La Llave!
I love it first thing in the morning, straight up with “espumita.” I make it myself with my stovetop expresso maker. Then I take some sugar and when the coffe starts coming out I pour a bit on the sugar and make the “espumita” by hand. Then I pour the coffee over the sugar mix and it is delicious. I also love La Llave cafe, to me it is the best in the market.I also love a “cortadito” mid afternoon with evaporated milk, YUM!!!
Am I Cuban or what?!!
“I like Cafe La Llave!”
I love my espresso shot first thing in the morning strong and with espumita! And my favorite brand of course is La Llave! And in the evenings after dinner I love my cortadito!
For favor escojeme a mi….a mi me encata un cafesito con espumita y pan con mantequilla. Solamente lo puedo tomar por la manana pero es solamente lo que necesito.
“I like Cafe La Llave!”
OMG espumita all the way. Always in the morningat least once in the afternoon and usually when we have family and friends come over. Like every Cuban family. First thing you offer in my home is “Quieren un cafecito” !!!!!
Hola Maria! Loving life with my husband who is Americano in Coral Springs, Fl! I grew up in Miami and think it’s absurd and a disgrace that I can’t find un cafecito here (not even una ventanita!). So, after seven years here, and lots of driving on the Palmetto for my fix, I’d love some Cafe la Llave and a cafetera for my home! My brother-in-law just asked me the other night, “Aimee, when are you going to make us some cafe-sitos???” I know how to make the best espumita, too!!! Please hook me up con la Llave!Love your blog!
Un abrazo.
I make my cafe in the morning and drink it until around 1pm. I like it plain and sweet! mmmmm mmmmm good
I like my espresso strong with milk and splenda. I know… not quite Cubano, but still muy fuerte y caliente! Probably three to four shots per day. Plus an extra decaf shot or two some days. 🙂
I like mine sweet, hot, con espumita, y un poco de agua cuando I’m done with it. I don’t drink as much anymore por la acidez pero when offered I always have to say yes.
I like Cafe La Llave
Hook me up
la Llave is the only coffee I buy. I make it with espumita, (taca, taca) and azuca! about three times a day or more when I have company, my friends love it. By the way, I collect tacitas, where can I buy the ones in the picture, I have never seen those, love them!
I love my cafecito con espuma.. no muy fuerte because it keeps me up at night! There i go speaking da spanglish again!
I love cortadito, and cafe con lecho oscuro I drink either one for breakfast everyday.A tacita de cafe con espumita around 3:00pm give me just the right jolt to finish my day.
I just liked their facebook page.
I like it strong with “Espumita” first thing in the morning.
I like Cafe La Llave!
I put a shot in cola & we call it (wait for it) e-cola.
My abuela from Hialeah sends me Cuban coffee from Miami whenever I run out. I drink it every morning for a little pep in my step!
My favorites are café con leche oscurito y cortadito oscurito (you think I like strong coffee??) and of course espumita is a must. I would LOVE this gift basket….Happy Mother’s Day to all the mami’s out there!
I love my cafecito con espuma…Yumm….What a good looking gift basket.
“I like Cafe La Llave!”
Yo abro mis mananas con esta llave todos los dias! Fuerte y con espuma. Cada vez que un amigo entra por la puerta la cafetera hecha a andar .
La Llave is my favorite coffee! I wish we could get it in NC so I don’t have to go to Miami to get it.
I like mine straight up….I hope I win!!!! Thanks!
La llave is the only espresso coffee we drink! Navarro’s in Miami is where I buy it but I would LOVE those cute little tacitas!!!
Very hard to find LaLlave in NJ. So when I go down to Miami, I make sure that I bring some back. Love mi cafe con espumita just about 3pm for that quick pick up in the office. And of course at home on the weekends. Due for a trip to Cuban Mecca soon.
My GF and I ONLY drink La Llave! Con espumita of course!
I like it straight up….with a pair of capuchinos….ummmmm…..nothing like the smell of this coffee to say Cuban!
I love my espresso con leche every morning and sometimes I have one about 3 in the afternoon:)
“I like Café la Llave!”
My mom,86 years old, started buying La LLave many years a ago. We even have the coffe plastic can that they offered years ago. We make regular cafecito in the morning and the traditional “bueno, las tres habrá que hacer café”. Mi familia tenia un pequeño cafetal para uso casero, nada más delicioso que el olor a café recién tostado.
Espumita and the best is served at my mami’s house!!
Con espuma y hecho por mi mami 🙂 tastes the best!!
I have mine twice a day- que rico!
Con leche!
“I like Cafe La LLave!” Me Encanta mi Cafe con Espumita y lo tomo cuantas veces se me apetece. (como 5 veces al dia).
I liked Lallave café on Facebook!! Thanks for a great giveaway!!
I love my café cubano in only the cutest cafecito cup of course.
I love my café cubano in only the cutest cafecito cup of course. Straight up at least twice a day.
Hi my name is Evelyn and I am a coffeholic. I LOVE my cafe. I drink cafe con leche in the morning, cortadito at 2 or 3pm and if I’m out definitely un cafecito after dessert.
Espumitas all the way!
Cortadito to get me going during that afternoon slump!
I like cafe La llave!
I like my Cortadito first thing in the morning .When I’m visiting my former home Miami, I like my cortadito
from the Oasis Cafe on Key Biscayne with a yummy pastelitto
and then a kiss from the sun as I head toward Crandon beach.
Aaaaahhhhh…. I can taste it now…. Heaven!
I have 2 a day and sometimes 3! Truly I could live on Cortaditos!:)
My kids could vouch for that!
I met an elderly Cuban lady about 20 years ago, while doing meals an wheels and she turned me on to La Yave. We love cafe con leche, but first I make it with espumita and we drink some of it black. Then I make my cafe con leche and I only use real sugar and a pinch of salt. The salt brings out the richness and flavor of the milk and coffee. We drink it every day and at every opportunity.
I love mine sweet with espumita!!!!
I liked the cafe La llave page on facebook and watched that cute video with the young guy putting lots of butter on his cuban bread because is the way his grandfather used to do it before his heart attack. So funny!!!
I use a 3 cup Bialetti for my La Lleve cafe. The whole thing is for me! Some cream and Truvia and poured into a Tervis tumbler and I’m good to go in the morning.
“I like Cafe La Llave!”
I love the fact that the basket of Cafe La Llave includes decaf…now that’s exquisito and so is Cafe La Llave…..Whenever I have guests over they always ask for espresso coffee and the basket will be just right for Mother’s Day….plus I need a new cafetera anyway….Thanks Marta and Happy Mother’s Day to you and your Mother Luz! She’s so cute….lol. 🙂
Hi I’m back to tell you Marta that I like Cafe La Llave! I hit Liked on Cafe La Llave FB page..Thanks!
Me encanta mi cafecito puro. Tomo por lo menos 2 tacitas por la mañana y dos por la tarde. La Llave es mi cafe preferido.
Café con leche — ever since I was a kid!
I like my espresso iced with half & half. Any time of the day. Or with my pb&j 😀
I like Cafe La Llave
I love it with espuma! I’d have it as much as my husband would make. 🙂 And especially with your beans!
“I liked Cafe La Llave!” On Facebook!!
I love my espresso fuerte y dulce con espumita! I drink it once a day. It is a beautiful basket. I would love to give it to mi Abuela.
I like Cafe La Llave!