There is something about the bright and bold colors for Día de los Muertos that always gets to me this time of year. Usually, I spend a good chunk of my time visiting and admiring local Day of the Dead installations or altar presentations. The celebration of life, even after death, is […]
So what do you do on a long weekend? If you’re anything like me, you find a new and fun project to dedicate part of your time to while your family is home spending a little extra quality time together. For me, this Fourth of July break, it was working […]
And well, what else can I say? We NEVER disappoint. This was just yesterday at my mother’s house. We weren’t really celebrating anything. We were just having dinner. Our meals are never meals. There more like feasts on a regular basis. Hey, somebody’s got to eat all of that […]
Certain things just make you undeniably Mexican. Mexican as in bien mexicanote where you couldn’t be anything else if your life depended on it. Watching my jefita make her famous mole from scratch is right on top of that list. It inspired me really… to share my own experience as […]
Spring in Texas is all about the wide open spaces! We barely get a winter and some years we don’t even get much of a fall season at all. This year, for example, it’s only April and we’ve already been experiencing a pretty severe drought across the state. One minute […]
Great news! This week we’re extending the Good Food Fridays Giveaway Opportunity one extra week to give you all extra time to enter the contest. Remember if you leave a comment on this blog post you can win up to $75 in gift card money from Kroger. This week we’re […]
I wouldn’t normally say this about my mother, much less in front of her, as she would either: a) be insulted by the use of the word “gangster” to describe her, even if it is in slang form and very loosely used; or b) kind of confused and probably insulted […]
Mexi-Style with Anjelica (@la_anjel now also on craftythrifter) So if you read Day 6 of the 12 Gift Wrapping Days of Christmas and thought “that’s way too much work,” this post is especially for you. Consider this the cheat sheet to recycling newspaper as gift wrap for your Christmas presents. […]