Chocolate Croissant Bread Pudding!

Greetings, dear meows! I don’t know about you mewosers, but I do love a good dessert! Especially chocolate! Full discloser though, when it comes to bread pudding I have kind of a love/hate relationship with it. When I first started working in restaurants in NYC, it was on almost every dessert menu in one way…

A Childhood Nostalgia Meal : Egg in a Hole!

Greetings, dear meows! It’s been far too long since I’ve written anything here… Life is just…Well. Complex. I’m doing my best to get things back on track after a very tumultuous end of 2022 and start to 2023. Now that things are sort of starting to level out, I find that in terms of cooking,…

Seafood Paella!

Greetings, dear meows! With summer in full swing, there are certain dishes that really bring all the feels and combine those food memories that make our hearts sing! Hey! That rhymes… πŸ˜› Anymeow, I was craving risotto, arroz con pollo, and seafood all at the same time. So I figured why not make a groovy…

Memories on a Plate… Cooking with old recipe cards : Sloppy Joes!

Greetings, dear meows! And welcome to a little series I’m calling “Memories on a Plate” where I’m cooking old school Mystic Meals using family recipe cards from my friends and meows! I put up a post on Facebook a while back and asked if anyone was willing to part with or share their family’s recipe…

Spicy Valentine’s Day Mystic Meals!

Greetings, dear meows! Happy Valentine’s Day! I just wanted to post up these two dishes that I made for myself earlier this week to not only showcase the use of my Mystic Seasonings spice blends in Magick Bayou and Curry in a Hurry, but to also inspire you meows to make some sexy and delicious…

Lady Lemon Marmalade!

Greetings, dear meows! I hope you all are having a tremendous start to 2022! February is here, and dead winter for most of the country, in the States at least… But where I reside in forever spring/summerville of Southern California, winter lasts for about 2 months MAX before it starts heating up again. Citrus is…

Pasteles… A Cooking Journey into my Puerto Rican roots!

Greetings, dear meows! As 2021 came to a close, I wanted to end the year by doing what I love the most… No… not that ya pervs… although… πŸ˜›πŸ€£πŸ˜‰ Cooking. I mean, cooking! 😝I tried my hand at making a Puerto Rican holiday staple dish that’s very similar to the more familiar and widely popular…

Easy and Delicious Pork Empanadas!

Greetings, Mystic Meows! I don’t know about how it is where you are, but here in Sunny California it’s finally starting to feel a liiiiiiittttttlle bit like Fall… πŸ˜› So naturally the way I like to cook and the foods I crave start to change. Lot’s more comfort food on the menu these days around…

Potato Cheddar Soup with Broccoli and Smokey Bacon

Greetings, Mystic Meows! Fall is finally upon us and once the temperature starts to dip, man o’ man do I ever begin to crave hearty soups and stews like crazy! Being a Latina I can eat Caldo de Pollo ( Chicken Soup ) any time of year, no matter the weather, but I was in…