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Learn Spanish With Little Pim! Win a Set of Spanish Flash Cards & CD!

Disclosure: I received Little Pim products for review purposes. No other compensation received.
By now you know that my husband and I have committed to raising bilingual children. Coming from different cultures ourselves, our daughter has the benefit of growing up multicultural and learning two languages – English and Spanish. Though my first language was [...]

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Meat Lovers: A Newlywed Story and Bistec Encebollado Recipe – Plus A #IHeartBeef Giveaway!

Puerto Rico

Disclosure: This post is part of a “I Heart Beef” campaign with TheMotherhood.com on behalf of The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association. I will receive compensation for sharing my memories with you, but my opinions are mine. In fact, I have always loved beef.
We are what you would call meat lovers. That is to say [...]

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Celebrating Three Kings Day

Puerto Rico

Happy Three Kings Day! Feliz Día de los Tres Reyes Magos!
We did it. Last year, after not celebrating, I resolved to celebrate Three Kings Day this year. And, though it’s a normal work day and baby girl is at preschool today, she did get her gift this morning and participated in the traditional Three Kings [...]

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Celebrating Christmas Eve with Coquito!

Puerto Rico

It’s Noche Buena…Feliz Navidad!
It may sound strange, but as I’ve mentioned before, Christmas Eve is actually the day that we get together and celebrate. Normally, our whole family gathers at someone’s house and we have our typical Noche Buena dinner. A traditional Puerto Rican Christmas Eve dinner has the following dishes:

Arroz con Gandules – Yellow [...]

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Potatoes are Healthy AND Cheap! #tastemaker challenge part 2

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This month’s Potato Tastemaker 2K10 challenge was Nutrition on a Budget. I had to create a nutritious dish for 4 with only $10 – using potatoes of course!
First, a few facts about potatoes:

one medium-size potato has just 110 calories and is absolutely fat free
one potato provides 45% of your daily value of vitamin [...]

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SpanglishBaby’s Bicultural Holiday Traditions

Puerto Rico

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 arrived in [...]

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What Does Being Latina Mean to Me?

Puerto Rico

****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.
I mean, do people [...]

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Get to Know Modern Mami – Just in Time for #BlogHer

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OH MY GOD! It’s finally here!
Blogher 2009 starts tomorrow. And though I leave in the morning, I still haven’t packed or prepared myself. I’ll be the one freaking out on twitter tonight as the excitement and nervousness hits me all at once. In the meantime, I sit down and write this post for you. See [...]