I often receive things in the mail from people who know me via the blogosphere. I guess it's the nature of the way that I write that people feel like they know me and are a part of my big, fat, Cuban family. (This pleases me.) If you've been reading my blog for a while, you know about my love for anything that involves guava and cream ...
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The Winner of Sabor!
Well done, people! Reading all your answers about your favorite breakfast foods has made me HUNGRY. The added benefit to reading through all of them is that now I have lots of ideas for mixing it up for breakfast. And although I can only choose one winner, I think the entire exercise of having you share your favorites was a total WIN. Of course, I ...
Stuffed French Toast, Cuban Style – A Love Story and A Giveaway
Breakfast is my very favorite meal. There. I said it. I love eggs and bacon and toast and orange juice and anything with maple syrup on it. I love my hot coffee. And I love crispy sausage. Dutch babies? Love them. And don't even get me started on my love for hash browns and homestyle potatoes! In fact, if left to my own devices, I would find ...
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Thank you all for your wonderful response to the post about Christina Diaz Gonzalez's book, The Red Umbrella. I received lots of emails and Facebook and Twitter comments. I was struck by a couple of things, which I had already suspected:Most Cubans knew about the Pedro Pans, but unless they had read Yvonne Conde's excellent book, ...
The Red Umbrella – a giveaway.
There is an episode in Cuban history that not many people outside of our community are aware of . When Castro and his cronies took power, not only was personal property at risk of being confiscated by the new communist government, but parents were going to lose their rights over their own children. Desperate and terrified Cuban parents made ...
Hasta La Vista, Baby!
We've been talking about this for weeks (maybe months) so the actual day came as no surprise. Adam has been planning to move to Redding, California. (There's a girl up there....of course.) Adam's 24 and has moved out (and come back home) a few times already, but he's never gone quite this far. Redding is 592 miles from Mission ...
Don’t pay the ransom…we escaped!
My husband, Eric owns his own business and his office is here at home. I have been homeschooling the kids for the last eight years, so we too, obviously, work from home. In fact, his office is really a corner of our converted school/studio/office space. So we all work a few feet from each other. With all this enforced togetherness you'd think ...
Just Keep Swimming.
I wonder sometimes how I survived my childhood. Seriously. When I was very young, my family spent the summers at Varadero Beach. The entire summer. (I know. So cool, right?) You see, it was way too hot in the city (Havana) to just sit around. So we went to the beach house, Villa Obdulia, along with all the cousins. In retrospect, I don't ...
Why Kikita thinks Spain Will Win the World Cup
Kikita here.At some point I'm sure Mami has mentioned that we don't have TV. If you didn't know that, well, now you know. We live in a valley, so we can't even get basic channels without basic cable. We watch movies and are big Netflix fans, but that is not important right now. Not having cable has made watching the World ...
Desi’s in Miami this weekend (and I am not). *sigh*
I was privileged to have had the opportunity to be in Miami in May for Cuba Nostalgia. While there, I got to see and hang out with most of my favorite intransigent bloggers (=D) and to experience the food and music that define me as a Cuban. I love living in So Cal, but every now and then, Miami sings her siren song to me. (It usually comes with a ...
