UPDATE: 10/12/2020 – COMMENTS CLOSED – WE HAVE A WINNER!
Congratulations to the winner of the “Come Back With Pastelitos” Doormat from Palm + Pine.
Isabel Ordaz, the doormat is yours! Please send an email with your mailing address so we can get your fabulous Pastelito Doormat out to you ASAP! Congratulations!
Thank you all for your participation!
Please go follow Palm + Pine and make sure you click “favorite” on their shop.
Also, they’re on Instagram too. @_ofpalmandpine
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People, you are sooo going to thank me today!
My daughter, Amy texted me a link to the most adorable Etsy shop and I loved the product so much, I immediately ordered.
It’s a doormat with the BEST wording ever:
“This house runs on Cafe con Leche y Pan Cubano”
Are you in love?? That’s sooo Cuban and sooo me, right?
Many thanks to Ally Morris the genius owner of the Etsy shop, Palm + Pine Shop behind this fabulous piece of functional art.
I contacted her right away to thank her and gush about her shop.
Guess what? She graciously agreed to host the 1st MBFCF Fourteen Years in the Blogosphere Giveaway. *insert happy dance here*
Because that’s how we are celebrating my 14 Years. With giveaways all month long! GUAT?? Que locura!
Ladies and Gentlemen, please appreciate… *drum roll*
Today’s giveaway is for a “Come back with pastelitos” door mat.
- To enter the giveaway for the “Come Back with Pastelitos” door mat, please leave a comment right here on THIS POST – click over to the Palm and Pine Shop site and tell me which is your favorite design. I see so many designs in her shop that are perfect for showing off your Cubanity. (<–That should be a word.)
Leave a comment and tell me: Which mat would you choose to show off your Cubanity? (<–I’m pretty sure I’ve made this a real word.)
I’ll be choosing ONE winner on Monday, October 12th, 2020 at 11:00 am PST. You have until then to enter.
Also, you should totally go “Favorite” her Etsy shop – Palm + Pine Shop. And give her a follow on Instagram @_ofpalmandpine – Pa’ que no te pierdas nada.
Who’s thanking me now?
Let the commenting begin!
I definitely love the “Come Back With Pastelitos” doormat! That is the mat I would use to show my Cubanity since my neighbors would have no idea what they are 😉 it would be a great conversation starter!!
Absolutely love this! Definitely need this “come back with pastellitos” mat to make our new home in UT, feel like we’re still in the 305!
Congratulations!!!!! Just saying my sister claimed you as her “fairy Madrina!” And I may have to request to be unofficially adopter as well! Lol And the favorite is “espera el cafe”
I love the “come back with pastelitos” but I’d really love one that said “come back with croquetas” 😂. The “cierre la puerta” is hilarious too!! 💗💗
Great minds!! I just wrote the same thing about croquetas!!
I love COME BACK WITH PASTELITOS, but I think I’d make a custom one that says COME BACK WITH CROQUETAS and trade them off every other week 😉 🇨🇺
This mat is amazing!!! I would love this for our new house we are moving into! ❤️
Come back with Pastelitos!
Must order something from the shop!!!
The “Come Back with Pastelitos” mat is definitely up my alley. It makes me crave a pastelito de queso—yummm. If my house guests don’t bring me a box from Vicky Bakery, then keep out! Lol love it.
Ummm pastelitos are life so that would be the winner winner pollo dinner for me. Now if there was a come back with croquetas one I would have to switch 😂 these are amazing.
I love the “Come back with pastelitos” I would love one!!!
Love, Love this door mate to give to my daughter! Every time we speak all she asks for is Pastelito de guayaba.
Love your blog/instagram!!
Amy Jo
I would pick Espera el Cafe! It reminds me of my grandparents so much😔. They used to always say that when visitors were getting ready to leave, but if your Cuban you know visitas our hours.
Cierre la puerta!!!! All day long (literally).
Thank you for being you. I love your sharing. I love cafe con leche. My husband doesn’t Cook but he makes the best “ cafe con leche”. (Pssst it is my birthday on the 11th and in the 10th, I am ten years cancer free!). 😬
Every Cuban home need this mat 😍
My little sister just got her own apt and “This House runs on C con Leche & P.C” mat would sooo perfect for her because gotta rep the #Cubanity up north too 👌🏻🤣 🇨🇺 #PickMe #CubanPride #MiCasita
My favorite is no te vayas espera el café because always when visiting my family, it’s like a way to get you to stay longer to offer a coffee or another coffee haha! That’s my cubanity 😉 These are so cute. Followed on insta and favorited Etsy. I need a few of these for all my doors.
This doormat is perfect for my Cuban house!! Pastelitos are a must!! 🥰🇨🇺❤️
I love these!! I definitely like the pastelitos one! And 1000% my house runs on café con leche y pan cubano!
Would love one of those mats
Definitely would have to be the “come back with pastelitos” one cuz we LOVE it here! There’s ALWAYS room for pastelitos. (This should be another one! Ha!)
The cafe con leche y pan cubano is my fav. Congrats on 14 yrs.
My favorite doormat is “Cierra La Puerta” because I used to hear my Abuela say that all time, between us kids letting the cold A/C escaping, Pepita running out and all us cousins running in and out while she watched us after school while at the stove making picadillo. That mat would be just an awesome memory!!! To this day, I do not leave my door open!
Come back with pastelitos !!! That’s always my crave when going to Miami to visit family.
“Come back with pastelitos” is definitely my fave. But all the Cubanity sayings are fun! I’m making your pastelitos de guayaba recipe today. YUM!
Love the pastelitos mat!! I really want one that says only ring doorbell if you have croquettas! Thanks!
My favorite mat is, “No te vayas, espera el café” ! Such a common phrase in our family! Much! Love all your posts!
I think “come back with Pastelitos” is actually my favorite, but they are all so cute!! They should add one that says “don’t be a pata sucia” XD
I love the This house runs on pastelitos y pan cubano! Love love love this shop!
Hola! I would LOVE to win the “This house runs on Café con lechè y pan Cubano”! I’m Cuban (of course, haha) and every morning growing up, my dad always has a café con leché ready for me before I went to school. Plus, my husband and I live by one of the best Cuban restaurants in Los Angeles called El Cochinito. We eat there so much and being home their pan cubano to dip in our coffee. Thank you for this opportunity!! Víva Cuba!
🎉Happy 14 years in the blogosphere, Marta🎉Thank you for bringing us joy, yummy recipes, nostalgic memories , and the many tears.
Definitely the Cone Back With Pastelitos! Thank for this opportunity!
Marta siempre y de todo corazón te deseo salud y felicidad para que sigas tú blog de 14 años, felicidades! I visited Palm & Pine adorable site & I will start following her on ig. All the mats are amazing like Espera el Cafe but the one you chose Come back with Pastelitos is the bomb diggity!! Love you, stay healthy, strong & safe mi amiga!
I would choose “ No Te Vayas espera el café “ to display my Cubanity 🇨🇺 ☕️
I love them all!!!!! I’m in Miami and this is the best I’ve ever seen! Honestly I can’t even… aka “no puedo con esto” hard to choose but the pastelitos is one is on point. Dios mío i loveee them !!
The “Come back with pastelitos” is the best for me. I’m not cuban but growing up in Hialeah I learned all the cuban ways and love eating all their food. Plus my girlfriend is cuban and this would be a nice for our place oneday.
Absolutely love the PASTELITOS doormat!! Thanks for hosting this awesome giveaway!!
Oh my goodness…I absolutely love the “This house runs on Cafe con leche and Cuban bread!!” door mat. It reminds me of my beautiful Abuela…she HAD to have her cafecito and Cuban bread every morning! This would be a nice addition to our home, sharing my Abuela’s legacy!
Definitely, Come back with pastelitos!❤️
I have to say my favorite is “Come back with pastelitos” because… pastelitos! I do need “Cierra la puerta” for my kids! Haha
LOVE it!!!! The Come Back with Pastelitos doormat would be perfect for my friend who is a Cubana at heart & is one with the Cubanity of it all!
Hi! The one that brought back sooooo many memories was “no te vayas y espera el café” Omg! That is something that my parents would always say to whoever came over. Café Cubano was our staple and my father made the best cafecito….Would love to bring that to my home!
Besitos
This house will definitely want you to “come back with pastel it is” ! These are too cute! 😍🇨🇺❤️
Pastelitos, for sure! It will remind me of my dad, who always came back from Miami with “the pink box” in his suitcase (of course also with galletas y guayaba jelly, también!)
Love This House runs on cafe con Leche Y pan Cubano and come back with pastelitos. My husband would love that and remind him of back home in Miami. 💙
Miamian born and raised who now lives in NJ would love the pastelitos door mat to liven up her house! 🙂
I would so do the “Come back with pastelitos”!! I live close to Cuban bakeries and when friends or family come over, they know to bring pastelitos! Happy “blogaversay” (is that even a word)! Wishing you many, many more years of your wonderful stories!
Oh my goodness yes! We get our fix from Porto’s but I’m very proud to say I’ve followed quite a few of your recipes as well ( pasteles de guyaba and crema de vie, of course). Here’s to many more years in the blogosphere!
Of course the pastelitos!
Love, ❤️, ❤️ “Come
Back with pastelitos.” My daughter is in college and every time I visit I have to come with pastelitos. Would love to gift it to her. Love you on insta and Pinterest too! 💗
I would love to make my own with the words: “La mejor Abuela del mundo vive aqui”
My mother in law moved into our efficiency last year and this would really help her to feel
like her little home is filled with love. 🙂
I love the “No te vayas Espera el café” welcome mat. The Cubanity is strong with that one! Congratulations on this blog milestone!
I definately live Come back with pastelitos!
My favorite mat was come back with pastelitos. What a great Etsy site. Would make nice gifts.
This is the best door mat ever! Absolutely love this! Pastelitos are life!
Love the Come back with Pastelitos!
What a great idea.
My favorites are “Hope you brought wine” and @Come back with pastelitos” … two of my favorite things! Mom life must include the best of both worlds 😋
I love the “Come back with pastelitos” doormat! So cute (and honestly, the truth)!
I don’t know if I can pick between “gather somewhere else”and “come back with pastelitos” especially since I just made your pastelito recipe last week with my LAST package of guava!!
This mat would be perfect for my bff who lives in Boston! Every time I visit from Miami she tells me she won’t let me in if I don’t have pastelitos with me!!! 😂
We’re not yelling, we’re Cuban.
Just Love the “Please Come Back with Pastelitos” de Guayaba! Ok 😉
Cierra La Puerta would be my pick! My mom needs to be reminded constantly to close the door! I’m always saying this to her when she visits ❤️
Definitely love all of these mats! Being Born in Miami and living here all my life But what brings me back as a kid and all the Cubanity is ¡Cierre la Puerta!
It’s what Papi and Abuelo tell you to do so you don’t waste the A/C! It’s hot in Miami! 😂 I also love this House runs on Café con leche and Pan Cubano love it!
Love it! My favorite is “Cierra La Puerta”. In my mind I can hear my dad yelling with “Se va el aire” along with it! Love the Etsy shop.
Definitely This House Runs on Cafe con leche. So reminds me of my Dad. I love your posts!! They bring so much love for me with nostalgia and make me remember my Dad.
Okay so I absolutely adore this mat and whole concept! Aside from being Cuban I am also a “foodie” (food blogger) so of course pastelitos are life! My favorite is come back with pastelitos because well.. I think it’s obvious haha 😆 this is truly an awesome giveaway and this mat would definitely set the bar at my house! Si no hay pastelitos en mano.. you can’t come in! 🤣 Congrats on 14 years of blessing the world with your awesomeness!!! Wishing you many more Marta! 🇨🇺 From one Cubanita to the other! Xoxo
This is the best doormat ever! I love the come back with pastelitos doormat soooo much!!!! Pick me! Pick me! 🙋🏻♀️ Yo 🙋🏻♀️
Adore this so much. PASTELITO DE CARNEEEEE!!!
You mean I have to choose between cafe con leche and pan Cubano, and Pastellitos?! 😉
In case you didn’t pick up on it, those are my two favorites. Congrats on 14 years of oversharing! Love you!!
I’d like to give a nod to both P+P and Jenny Lorenzo. My mat would say “Cierre la puerta y ponte un sueter!” Runs on cafe con leche is my runner up. 😂
Hard to pick if it’s up to me pastelitos for sure! For my husband cierra la puerta!!! I’d be happy with either love em ❤️
Well for me it’s a tie between “come back with pastelitos” (although your recipe has been a lifesaver through this pandemic) and “like a good neighbor stay over there”. Both are so funny!
Definitely the Come back with the pastelitos.
Live the “come back with pastelitos” because seriously…you should!!! ❤️❤️
Definitely the pastelito one! Super cute!! Y felicidades.
I cannot decide which I like most but the “Cierre la Puerta!” And the “Come back with Pastelitos” are definitely my favorite ones! I need them in my life.
Congrats on 14 years! I love them all! I think that gathering and love are conveyed with food in our culture. I like the pastelitos because we were taught to never come over empty handed. Plus, you know someone always shows up with
Pastelitos. I like the tostada and cafe con leche because let’s be honest, that is the only thing I consider breakfast (with 2 croquetas), and el cafe also hits home because offering un cafecito is a symbol of welcoming someone into your home. Love this partnership. They all
Warmed
My heart!
Cierra la puerta! Bc it’s hilarious and reminds me of my very cubanity!
Come back with pastelitos, because that’s what we do.
Hands down my favorite one is the “Come Back With Pastelitos” doormat! It just describes my wife and I so well. Always with a box of Pastelitos and fighting over the last one!
Congratulations on your 14th milestone of blogging. It’s a great blog to follow for sure. Favorite doormat is the pastelitos but it’s a close tie with “cierre la puerta”.
I would pick Cierre La Puerta! 😂
Cierra la puerta! Need this in my life!!!
YESSS! I LOVE and NEED the Come back with Pastelitos!!! My husband is Cuban and I follow you gift ideas/recipes/ and all things Cuban! I learned how to make Pastelitos from the recipe you posted a few years back and now my husbands family requests the Pastelitos every time we’re invited over!! 😆 I love watching the 4 kids argue over who gets the biggest piece and all thanks to you!! So this would make a great addition to our house!!
That doormat is EVERYTHING. Come back with pastelitos is my favorite. I always SHOW UP with pastelitos! Nothing wrong with asking people to reciprocate!
This is the best doormat! Cuban pride at it’s finest! Lol
Pastelitos is the best! 😋
My favorite is definitely “Come back with Pastelitos” This is my favorite thing to eat, and I can never have enough. This is something that always runs out at my house so quickly. Everyone who knows me, would say I need this!
Ayyy que durooo!! They are all sooo cool but my fav is COME BACK WITH PASTELITOS!! Jijij loveeee it!! Y felicidades en tu “blog” cumple!!
“Come back with Pastelitos” for sureeee!!!! Totally my fav! May just have to order it!
“Come back with pastelitos” is my favorite! Thanks for sharing this great find!
Absolutely the perfect mat for my door! Not only do I need a “Come back with Pastelitos” doormat, I need one for each of my children’s doors. How heartwarming it will be outside of my cold Minnesota door. Thank you for sharing the etsy store.
…and don’t forget the croquetas de jamón!
Love your shop…thank you for keeping our wonderful
Cuban memories alive they were our foundation.
If my kids spoke Spanish I would totally have to pick the ‘Cierre la Puerta’ mat since I don’t think any of my kids know how to close the dang door!! But since they don’t I have to choose the ‘come back with pastellitos’ one! Especially since anytime we have family go visit Miami I always tell them to bring us back a box full of pastellitos. My family would probably laugh so hard to show up at my house to that doormat. Now, if there was one that said ‘this house runs on croquettas’ there may not ever be a more fitting doormat for my family, ever’. These are so great!
I love the “Come Back With Pastelitos” doormat. I haven’t had pastelitos in a long while (Doctor’s orders, lol) but now I am craving one.
By the way Congratulations on your 14th year Anniversary.
Come back with pastelitos is my absolute favorite… living in Orlando after a move from Miami I’m missing my morning pastelitos so only fair to ask people to bring them.. LOL
The “come back with pastelitos” is the best! And now I want to eat a pastelito….
Happy 14th aniversario! Perfect in Spanglish, just like you Marta 🇨🇺 All the door mats are great! I would pick the “pastelitos” one for sure! Or café con leche, or if she had a croqueta mat 😋
This doormat is a Cubans dream. We all love pastelitos and maybe our neighbors and solicitors will actually bring us some😂 please send it my way❤️
Congrats on your blogging anniversary! Thank you for giving us the opportunity to have a chance to win the Cubanity mat! Definitely LOVE the pastelito mat because we truly miss those since Minnesota does NOT offer it, perhaps not yet (wishful thinking that it will pop some day…). We used to go Florida Bakery to get pastelitos when we travel. Would like to see a mat “Must Have Cafecito or Café Con Leche. 😊🇨🇺 Again, thank you. Hope you are doing well. I Enjoy your post!
OMG!!!! I absolutely love the “Come Back with Pastelitos” door mat. And you are so right I love them all… I don’t have enough doors for all the ones I like. I wish there was a place closer to us that actually served Pastelitos. The closest place is an hour away and it’s the only place I know if “near by” that actually makes them. Now, I must get dressed and drive to get some, because you can’t just talk about Pastelitos and not start craving them.
Omg!!! Tengo 3 favoritos!!! The pan cubano, espera el cafe and the must love plants. I’m a plant mom as well as dog mom!!! So darn cute! Thank you for sharing this Etsy. I’m buying a house in a few months and I live in Arizona. I need to make people aware of my Cubanity!!! 🇨🇺. Also I hope I win this giveaway 😍😍
Ok! I love the “come back with pastelitos” but I also love the “chao pescao” which we used to say back in elementary in Miami.
Come back with pastelitos because what else is there in life? This would be great in my new home in Vero Beach now that I’m retiring!
Congrats on the 14 year Anniversary! what an amazing giveaway. Definitely one should only show up with pastelitos so in case they didn’t understand or get the message they can look at the door mat “come back with pastelitos” – super cute and funny
I love the “come back with pastelitos” mat!
This cubanita blanquita flaquita would LOVE to have this on her doorstep in Virginia! Connecting with my Cuban heritage through food has been a grounding activity for me. I’m a professional opera singer, and my work has taken me to so many places — but my cooking brings me “home.” THANK YOU for sharing how to make pastelitos at home! You seriously brightened my world when I was working in gloomy Pittsburgh for 2 years!
Happy 14th! I love everything about this shop. No te vayas, espera por el cafecito,, definitely hit home for me. That was a well used phrase at our house and it represents the Cuban spirit of hospitality so well. Happy 14th, Marta, what an amazing journey.
Happy Anniversary!!! I love them all but if I have to choose “the house runs on café con leche and pan cubano” one is my favorite.
Cierra La Puerta Doormat Is my favorite.
I LOVE both but my Cuban heart goes with “This House Runs on Cafe con Leche Y Pan Cubano”. It so speaks the language of my beloved mami which I am sure is greatly enjoying these same guilty pleasures in heaven.
My all time favorite is come back with pastelitos. That’s definitely me! I can’t live without my cafe con leche every day but if you come by….please bring pastelitos y pan cubano. Gracias!
Feliz 14 🎉 Love them all…right now I’d say return with pastelitos is top choice as I just had delicious pastelitos from Porto’s and would ❤️ the floor mat . I’m Cuban by marriage and powered by espresso!
This is hilarious and oh so perfect for the eternal fat girl that I am! I would 100% need the come back with pastelitos one…. maybe I can also add come back with pastelitos and croquetas hahaha because who does not love both? The Etsy page has so many cute mats available. If I had to pick one (that does not involve pastelitos) I would go with the text me when here, no need to involve the dog! Love it!!!!!!!
I would love the come back with pastelitos! Despite my kid probably preferring it saying come back with croquetas! Lol
Thank you for giving us the opportunity for a chance to win the brilliant mats! We miss the pastelitos so much that we used to get them at Florida Bakery when we traveled in Florida. Really like the Come Back With Pastelitos because it brings us many good memories. Would like Cafe Con Leche or Cafecito A Must! These Cubanity mats are awesome!!! Need to show my Cuban heritage to my familia! Thank you again.
Definitely like them.. Leave me with cafecito and pan cubano…..sneak in croquetas and pastelitos.
Yumm
I would have to say “Come back with pastelitos” is my favorite. It clearly says it all.
No te vayas, espera el café…said every Cuban grandmother!!