I’ve been quiet for a while and there has been a reason. Well, there have actually been may reasons but mostly I really haven’t been cooking much and I’ve been keeping a secret. And the secret I’ve been keeping is the main reason why I really haven’t been cooking that much; that together with my [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Our Story’
I’ve been keeping a Secret
Posted in Adriana, Alan, Family, Our Story, tagged Adriana, Alan, Family, Our Story, Us on April 14, 2011 | 10 Comments »
Cuban Home Economics
Posted in Adriana, Our Story, tagged Adriana, Alan, Cuban Upbringing, Our Story on September 15, 2010 | 1 Comment »
My friend Marta has two great posts on how Cuban girls get groomed to be the Perfect Cuban Wife (PCW) through intense training on Cuban Home Ec. So, it got me thinking about my own Cuban upbringing, and how I’ve supplemented or added to it, through the years. I graduated with HONORS from the Cooking [...]
I’m Baaaaaack!
Posted in Adriana, Alan, Trips, tagged Our Story, PhD, Red Sox, Us on October 23, 2009 | 10 Comments »
Hello world!!!! Greetings from Rochester, NY! Sorry for the extended absence, but the quarter system hit me like a ton of bricks and I’m just coming up for air. Unfortunately, to get things going in our new home and my new job, I was forced to neglect my blogging duties. But fear not, you have [...]
Life on hold
Posted in Adriana, Alan, Our Story, tagged Adriana, Our Story, PhD, Us on March 31, 2009 | 3 Comments »
For the past month our life has been literally “on hold”. Why? Very simple. I’m finishing this thing called a Ph.D which has this other thing called a Dissertation. While the PhD programs demands commitment and time throughout your 4 or 5 years, nothing really compares to what it demands on the last stretch. By [...]
Our New Digs
Posted in Our Story, tagged Our Story, Us on March 28, 2009 | 6 Comments »
As I sit here and start calling moving companies so we can get estimates (we don’t actually move until August), I thought I’d share with you what our new apartment will look like. It’s not too big, but it’s not too small either. The good thing is that the bedrooms are not smaller than our [...]
Beer!!!!!!!
Posted in Adriana, Alan, Our Story, Trips, tagged Our Story, Trips, Us on March 17, 2009 | 4 Comments »
It seems we have found the place we will call home for our first year in Rochester. It’s nice, it’s cozy and It. Includes. Heat. Trust me, that’s a very good thing and a savings of about $1200 per year. Nada mas con el testigo! as Papi use to say. In other news, we went [...]
Searching for a NEW home
Posted in Adriana, Alan, Trips, tagged Our Story, Trips, Us on March 11, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Many of you know (or not) that I will be joining the faculty at RIT this fall (yay for me!). So next week during our Spring Break we will be visiting Rochester to search for our new apartment! We are so very excited about the trip! Not only because duh, we’ll be looking for a [...]
Good News!
Posted in Alan, Our Story, tagged Alan, Our Story, Us on March 4, 2009 | 9 Comments »
Today we got the GREAT news that Alan has been accepted into the same university I will be working at! And to top it off, he also was awarded a scholarship due to his GREAT GPA! Salud!
Family Secrets
Posted in Alan, Our Story, tagged Our Story, Us on January 31, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Every family has secrets: some are good, some are juicy and others are very bad. This one is of the GOOD variety, the very very GOOD variety. Please, please, read all the way to the end. Since we launched the blog, only I’ve written and mainly about cooking and me. Although there are a couple [...]





