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SpanglishBaby’s Bicultural Holiday Traditions

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Starting today, SpanglishBaby, is hosting 7 days of Mamás Blogueras (Blogging Moms) and highlighting posts about our bi-cultural holiday traditions. I’m honored to be 1 of the 7 mamis being featured! You can find my post up today: Embracing Puerto Rican Christmas Traditions. A little excerpt for you: Growing up, we always knew Navidad had [...]

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What Does Being Latina Mean to Me?

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****This post was originally posted in March 2009 at Family Eden. Since that blog is no longer active, I wanted to share with you.**** I’ve been asked a difficult question. I was asked to write about what it means to me to be a Latina. To be honest, I’ve never really given it much thought. [...]

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Eating My Way through Puerto Rico

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Before I left for our vacation, I shared with you which foods from Puerto Rico I was most looking forward to eating while on our trip. I didn’t get to eat all of them, but did eat many and some that weren’t even on my list. Food Tour of our Trip to Puerto Rico Alcapurrias [...]

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Expect a Week of Island Goodness

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I know you’re all waiting on me to post all about our trip to Puerto Rico and post pictures. I know. I know. I’ve been slacking this week on getting our pictures onto the computer and all that good stuff. Mainly, I’ve been trying to catch up here and there on email and social networking, [...]

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A Taste of Home

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If you haven’t heard, in a few days, we’re going on vacation to Puerto Rico. Of course, we’ve planned several must-do activities and sightseeing. But, is it wrong that I’m planning visits to specific areas of the island just so I can grab up certain foods? Foods that I’m Looking Forward to Eating in Puerto [...]

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Playground Music & Arts Festival at Lake Eola

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Yesterday we headed out to the Playground Music and Arts Festival at Lake Eola in downtown Orlando. We heard about the event on PBS while watching Pocoyo one morning. Guess TV advertising still works sometimes, huh? It was sponsored by the Orange County Arts Education Center and Playground magazine. After 20 minutes of searching for [...]

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5 Must-Have Ingredients for Cooking Puerto Rican Food

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There are some very essential ingredients when it comes to cooking Puerto Rican food. They make up what’s called sofrito. Now…the term sofrito is used a bit interchangeably because it refers to both the overall mixture of these ingredients as well as a specific item. Either way, we use sofrito (the overall mixture) for just [...]

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Feliz Dia de Reyes!

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Last year, I explained what Three King’s Day is all about and how our family celebrated this occasion back in Puerto Rico. Since we moved to the states, the tradition slowly got lost. This is partly due to the fact that it’s not a recognized holiday here (we still have to work) and partly to [...]

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