UPDATE: 11/6/2020 – COMMENTS CLOSED – WE HAVE A WINNER! Congratulations to Tee Burgess, the winner of the “Cafe con Leche Candle” from Albisa Candles. Please send an email with your mailing address so we can get your fabulous Cafe con Leche Candle out to you ASAP! Congratulations! Thank you all for your participation! Also, CHRISTMAS IS ...
Burger Beast For the Win
UPDATE: 10/11/2020 - COMMENTS CLOSED - WE HAVE 2 WINNERS! We have 1 winner for the Burger Beast Honey Mustard Curry and a tasty bag of popcorn. And 1 winner for the Burger Beast Sauce with Guava Sriracha Ketchup and some delicious popcorn. Please send an email with your mailing addres and I will forward to the Burger Beast himself, who will ...
The First Rule of Cafecito Club…
UPDATE: 10/13/2020 – COMMENTS CLOSED – WE HAVE A WINNER! Congratulations to Ernesto A. Suarez, the winner of the “Cafecito Club Gift Box” from Guavette's Wonderland! Please send an email with your mailing address so we can get your Cafecito Club Gift Pack out to you ASAP! Congratulations! Thank you all for your participation! Please go ...
Feeling Welcome with Palm & Pine
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 ...
Fourteen
Welcome to the Celebration of my 14th Year in the Blogosphere! *insert lively party music here* It makes me really happy to be able to be writing this blog post today for a few reasons. Because I can't even believe I've kept at this blog thing for this long. Because I've created something that I'm super proud of. Because it has ...
Roasted Butternut Squash With Apples And Brussels Sprouts Recipe
We've been having a crazy heat wave here in So Cal. Full disclosure - cooking has been the last thing on my mind. (I know. Shut up.) Still, I was kind of excited to participate in this month's Melissa's Produce Challenge: A Fall Side Dish. Although I'm not quite ready to throw on a scarf and boots - WAIT. Who am I kidding? This is California. ...
Cafe LaLlave in K-Cups and All My Wishes Have Come True
It's a lot of fun to be on this side of the blogging wall between a new company roll out and giving the customers a head's up. Which is where I find myself today. Drum roll, please.******** Cafe La Lave is finally available in beautiful and practical K-cups. Yay! We already own an espresso maker and use the smaller espresso pods regularly, ...
Sliders and Slaw
Technically, today's recipe is Plum Pulled Pork Sliders with Jicama Slaw. Whew! That title is quite the mouthful, isn't it? Actually "quite the mouthful" is completely apropo for today's recipe which is perfectly descrbed in the title. Say it with me: "Plum Pulled Pork Sliders With Jicama Slaw." *deep breath* As usual when I tackle these monthly ...
Dos Croquetas For All
It was my very great honor to have been one of the judges at the annual Croquetapalooza event in Miami last December. I was invited by my friend, Sef Gonzalez, of Burger Beast Fame. This Grand Celebration of All Things Croqueta happened at the beginning of December 2019 and I came home and headed straight into ...
Peach and Apricot Grunt Recipe
It's the first day of summer and because of recent events, we are ready to get outside and start our summer in earnest. Well, we have filled the little 10 ft. pool in the backyard and hung the outdoor lights and are ready to do some movie nights and do some outdoor dinners and eat some delicious summer foods. And by summer foods, I mean fruit. Do ...
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I should probably warn you that I'm about to share an intimate thing, but then again, if you've been reading this blog long enough, you know I don't shy away from over sharing the details of my life. Also, this post is over-illustrated with photos because it's too difficult to tell without them. Brace yourself. The Stairway to Heaven This story ...
The Amazing Beast Sauce Burger
Happy Burger Month! (You didn't know it was a thing, did you?) That's right! May is National Burger Month. (Hurray!) And May 28th is National Burger Day. Truthfully, I knew nothing of this, but we had the most amazing burger meal recently because of my friend, respectfully known as The Burger Beast, and I totally want to tell you all about him and ...
Lemon Poppyseed Muffins
I'm not a big breakfast eater, but I sure do love my cafecito... and a little something sweet. Sometimes I grab a big mug of black coffee in the morning... and a little something sweet. When I was growing up breakfast was usually a café con leche... and a little something sweet. Because Cuban. Obviously the constant in my Breakfast Life is... a ...
May The 4th Be With You
It was May 1977 and I was turning 22 years old. I celebrated that birthday enjoying dinner with friends. After which we decided to go see a new film called Star Wars. Back then we knew nothing about the phenomenon it would turn out to be, of course. And, to be honest, the posters that advertised it looked a little hokey. You know the rest of the ...
It’s Rhubarb Season
I have a confession to make. (Warning: if you're waiting for a big, juicy "chisme," you'll most likely be disappointed, but that's not important right now.) The confession: Up until last week, I had no idea what rhubarb tasted like or what you could even do with it. (I know. Shut up.) I think I had heard somewhere that rhubarb pie was a thing, but ...
