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…
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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… 😛 Anymeow, I was craving risotto, arroz con pollo, and seafood all at the same time. So I figured why not make a groovy…
Rising Prices and Food Shortages. A Chef’s guide on where to shop and how to eat like a Flexitarian.
Greetings dear meows! I hope this here blog finds you well and getting through this thing we call life! I’m just gonna jump right into it since there’s a lot of ground to cover. I, like the rest of you, have been navigating and adjusting to the lack of all kinds of products at the…
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…
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… 😛🤣😉 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… 😛 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…
Herby Pesto Pasta with Sautéed Zucchini!
Greetings, Mystic Meows! Happy First Day of Fall! It’s still hot as balls here in Southern California, but I long for the few precious months of cooler weather that we get in these parts. It’s pretty much perpetual summer most of the year, and I miss those brisk and chilly East coast days and nights…
Jamaican Stew with Mystic Seasonings Jerk Spice!
Greetings, Mystic Meows! I hope the summer is treating you all as well as can be, given everything that is going on around us… Cooking and eating well continues to be an extremely therapeutic ritual for me, and really does help me navigate through the ebbs and flows of the day. I really enjoy the…
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