This Thanksgiving I am staying home with my immediate family. That means it will be my husband, myself, our 8-year-old and our 5-year-old. The conversation will flow with ease and the only tension that arises will be from the adults urging the kids to eat something other than mashed potatoes and pie and for that […]
Pumpkin Flan Vanilla Cake
Thank you to Mi Pueblo Foods for sponsoring this post. The opinions and text are mine. You know how when you go to an average American supermarket there is like a quarter or, if you’re really lucky, a half of an aisle dedicated to Latin foods? I mean that’s nice and all, but if you […]
‘Xochitl and the Flowers’ (Sundays In My City)
This weekend I had the pleasure of watching my daughter in the world premier of the opera “Xochitl and the Flowers” at the Mission Cultural Center in San Francisco. The opera by Christopher Pratorius is based on the children’s book of the same title by Jorge Argueta. You should know that my daughter is not an opera […]
Alicias Delicias Mexi-cookies Are Edible Art (The Flying Chancla Report)
My chancla and I were scouring the internet to find something to share with you for this week’s The Flying Chancla Report that doesn’t have to do with the man who got elected to be the next President of the United States and we almost gave up until we came across a video on the […]
Lazy People Be Like
I think lazy people get a bad rap. We’re misunderstood and maligned. The non-lazies of the world seem to think that calling someone lazy is an insult or a put-down. Well, I’m here to defend my fellow lazy beings. I am determined to take back the word “lazy” so that those of use who feel […]