About Me

Hola!

Hello there! You have just come across my little food corner! Cooking and Baking have always interested me in one way or another, it started as a little girl making "sand cakes" and "mud pies" and it evolved to making 3 course meals for my hubby and my extended family.

I can not say that I have always loved cooking, I can still remember a time when even boiling water was enough to make me run away screaming in fear, the kitchen was pretty much prohibited territory for me, but I have discovered that there is this wonderful feeling of accomplishment when you sit down to munch on some delicious self-made dish, and funny enough, spending time thinking of what to prepare and going through all the cooking/baking process helps me to put my mind at ease and in a curios way relaxes me. 

I have a bigger passion for baking than for cooking to be honest, but now that I am a mother of a lovely little man,  the cooking flame has taken a whole new meaning, I like the idea of making home-food for my son rather than always opening a jar or can and I would love for him to one day (far, far, far, far away) look back and say: "I miss my Mom's cooking" or "No! that's not the way MY MOM made it!!" :)

On the other hand, I also know how stressing it can be to be a full time mother-slash-housewife and have to figure out what to cook every single day, I tend to spend a lot of time reading cookbooks and browsing the web to find some inspiration, if I'm lucky, I sometimes find a really good looking recipe, I "steal" it and adapt it to my taste and (I have to brag here-) I have come up with some really great dishes that are not time consuming and just delicious -and have even been asked for the recipes!!  So  I thought  it would be a good idea to put all this recipe-cooking adventures down on virtual paper in the hope that they will inspire someone one day............wouldn't it be really cool to have my little one reading and making this great dishes for his own family one day?

I have to say that this is not a Mexican, Dutch or Kid Friendly Food Food/Recipes blog; as Mexican I love mexican food but I'm no expert, far from it; and living in Holland has thought me a few things on their cuisine of course, but I eat all kinds of food (well that is a bit extreme, I eat most kinds of food) so it would be really sad and unfair to limit my kitchen and palate to just one sorth of dishes. As for making food specially for kids, well.....I think that once little ones learn to chew they should also learn to eat all kinds of food so I try to make food that I can share with my boy, find recipes that I know he can also enjoy and adapt the ones I love to be able to share them with him, but I try not to focus to much on making baby or kid food anymore. So this is more of an "everyday-recipes" kind of  blog.

Thanks so much for stopping by, I truly hope you can find some inspiration and good cooking ideas!
Enjoy, eat good and provechito!!!

Anel

Note that some of the recipes are not original, but I always name my sources. The same goes for the photos, I am still working on getting good photos for every recipe.