Maca – Jengibre y Canela

Double chocolate crinkle cookies/ Galletas crinkle de doble chocolate

29 abril, 2024 Sin comentarios

We had one of those times when the weather played with our feelings. We were to have 18ªC and 24ºC these two days, and we woke up to rainy, cloudy and cold days. We had plans to go see the cherry blossoms and have a picnic, so we pivoted and [...]

Porkchops in Korean Kolbi sauce/ Chuletas de cerdo en salsa Kolbi coreana

25 abril, 2024 Sin comentarios

I am dealing with some of the things I hate most in life: paperwork. You have no idea how much I hate doing paperwork, always have and always will. I feel like I am wasting my life waiting for some bureaucrat to review my papers and speaking mostly from my [...]

Chicken and snow pea stir fry/ Stir fry de pollo y chícharos chinos

22 abril, 2024 Sin comentarios

This was a lazy weekend. We just came back from Mexico very early last Monday, and my kids went to school and to their activities and were running on fumes by Friday, so we decided to stay home. My daughter has a huge project to finish with a friend, I [...]

Banana and chocolate stuffed french toast/ Pan francés relleno de plátano y chocolate

17 abril, 2024 Sin comentarios

I am back in rainy Toronto. The weather is finally Spring, and the flowers and trees are blooming, which means white, and yellow, and pink everywhere for 2 to 3 weeks until they shed their first blooms and then green and tulips everywhere. I came back a few days ago [...]

Chicken thighs in sundried tomato sauce/ Muslos en salsa de jitomates deshidratados

9 abril, 2024 Sin comentarios

I am in Mexico again, but this time just for a few days. My mom has her 70th birthday party and we had to be here, and she is coming back with us after 6 months of not coming to Canada. We have no specific plans since she just likes [...]

Banana and raspberry waffles/ Waffles de plátano y frambuesa

4 abril, 2024 Sin comentarios

We have a short week and then next Monday we fly to Mexico for my mom’s birthday. We went to Mexico a month ago almost to the day and it feels great to go back so soon. Although I am worried about school and breaking our routine too often, but [...]

BBQ ribs/ Costillas BBQ

31 marzo, 2024 2 comentarios

It is starting to feel like spring which means I can finally tend to the garden. After months of snow, frozen grass, and dead everything and owning a beautiful, huge and heavy dog, I can see a bit of green in my flower beds and the promise of a beautiful [...]

Cheese and green onion scones/ Scones de queso y cebolleta

27 marzo, 2024 Sin comentarios

Today I went to the studio and managed to throw three pasta plates. I have been a bit absent from it, but this week is all about plates. I have been throwing plates of all shapes and sizes, for pasta, for cookies and milk and remaking a bowl that broke [...]

Trout in orange and tarragon/ Trucha con naranja y estragón

24 marzo, 2024 Sin comentarios

We are supposed to be in Spring now, and it would be normal for Toronto to still have snow, if it hadn’t been a very strange winter, with almost no snow and very high temperatures, but this weekend it was all snow, very cold weather but sunny and nice. Which [...]

Potato and spinach gratin/ Gratín de papa y espinaca

20 marzo, 2024 Sin comentarios

Home sweet home! We are back in Toronto after 5 extra days sponsored by the Canadian government and the new eTA rules. We are back to life and very surprised with the weather. When we left it was warm and we came back to snowstorms and temps below zero again. [...]

Pan seared lamb chops/ Chuletas de cordero al sartén

15 marzo, 2024 Sin comentarios

Fun story: I came to Mexico with my kids for March break and we were supposed to go back to Toronto yesterday, so that they could get ready to go back to school and have a weekend doing the stuff we always do. But, since the Canadian government changed the [...]

The most popular recipes of 2023/ Las recetas más populares de 2023

9 marzo, 2024 Sin comentarios

Better later than never. I know it is March and all compilations usually happen in January but remember…hard year ahead and behind me. This year was a challenge in terms of being as creative as I am under normal circumstances, but this list is pretty nice. Some of these are [...]

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