The Curse of the Cold Cola
Image by PinkMoose via Flickr I’m from Cape Canaveral, Florida. If you’ve ever spent any time in the central Florida area, you’ll know just how darn hot it can get there. I used to go to work at about 7am, and the bank sign would already say 85+ degrees out. And we won’t even talk [...]
Tallarin Saltado
Image by Postlatino via Flickr I”m used to eating US style – take for example, meat loaf. When I cook meat loaf, one night I might make it with mashed potatoes and green beans. Another time, I might make it with baked potato and carrots – or mac n cheese and broccoli. It’s not usually [...]
Road Trip to La Molina
Yesterday (Sunday) we decided to take a road trip to La Molina. My husband has been wanting to learn some different routes around town, and we wanted my mom to see some other parts of Lima, so we all loaded up in the Toyota and took off. Our first stop was in Surquillo, where we [...]
Not All Stepmothers are Evil
Image by fnnkybutt via Flickr Being a step-parent is one of the most thankless things a person can do with their life, especially if you’re a step-parent who truly cares for your step-kids, and tries to do right by them. I never had my own children, and was thrilled when the man I fell in [...]
Let’s Hear It for the Recycle Man (or woman, or child)
Image via Wikipedia I live in a pretty little neighborhood called ‘La Aurora’ in the district of Miraflores, Lima. In our neighborhood, we don’t have a real recycling program. We do have drop off points every few blocks for garden waste, but no real program for recycling plastics, glass or paper. And yet, our waste [...]
Going to the Bodega
When I lived back in Cape Canaveral, every morning I used to go to the Circle K, and buy my giant fountain Mountain Dew (breakfast of champs, oh how I miss ya). For a good 5 years, I went there 5 mornings a week. I also stopped there various times throughout the week, filling up [...]
Skirmishes in the Food Revolution
Image by Getty Images via Daylife I’m on Twitter and follow a lot of other ‘Blogger Moms’ and writers. Lately, there’s been a lot of talk going on about Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution – love it or hate it, it’s definitely got people talking about what we (and by ‘we’ I’m mostly talking about those [...]
Aji de Gallina – Chicken in Spicy Aji Sauce
Image by scaredy_kat via Flickr A few months ago, I talked about different ways I manage to make a chicken last for 3-4 meals. One of the meals I mentioned is a Peruvian dish called aji de gallina. One of the reasons I love this dish is because it is so stretchable. I like to [...]
Offers and Free stuff I Found on the Interwebs
I spend a lot of time writing. I mean, a LOT of time. I have this blog, and a couple other blogs, and articles that I do freelance, content for Squidoo lenses… I pretty much spend every minute at the keyboard from the time I get the kid’s off to school until the time I [...]
Hard to Say You’re Sorry
Image by Yogma via Flickr I spend a lot of time on an expat forum, chatting with people from around the world who live in Peru. Something that’s been brought up from time to time is the difficulty that Peruvians seem to have apologizing for things. It comes across sometimes as an inability or downright [...]
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