UPDATE: 10/20/2020 – COMMENTS CLOSED – WE HAVE A WINNER! Congratulations to Christine Crespo, the winner of the delightful VIvaPoRu soap and candle kit from Havana 78 Artisan Soaps. Please send an email with your mailing address so we can get your fabulously healing ViVaPoRu Set out to you ASAP! Congratulations! Thank you all for your ...
Cuban-American Life
I hope you enjoy my posts about my crazy and wonderful Cuban-American life.
Santayana Azabache Bracelet Because You Need This in 2020
UPDATE: 10/19/2020 – COMMENTS CLOSED – WE HAVE A WINNER! Congratulations to Sofia, the winner of the beautiful Black Azabache Bracelet from Santayana Jewelers! Please send an email with your mailing address so we can get your fabulous Azabache Bracelet out to you ASAP! Congratulations! Thank you all for your participation! Also, CHRISTMAS ...
My Life Runs on Cafe La Llave
UPDATE: 10/17/2020 – COMMENTS CLOSED – WE HAVE A WINNER! Congratulations to Maria E. Prieto, the winner of the Breville Espresso Maker, 4 boxes of Café La Llave espresso pods, and 2 Café La Llave tacitas - all courtesy of Cafe La Llave.Please send an email with your mailing address so we can get your fabulous box of Cafe La Llave goodies out ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
