🗣 Free Virtual Cooking Class! Tuesday, November 9 @ 6 pm PST! I will demonstrate how to make champurrado and guava and cheese empanadas. 😋 This champurrado and these empanadas are great to take to your FriendsGiving gatherings, posadas, and more. 🎁 So be sure to register at the link in my bio! You don’t want to miss this class!🤗 Sponsored by @northgatemarket #northgatemarket #northgatepartner

In the past, during this time of year, I visit Sonora Mexico for Dia de Los Muertos. The cemetery is adorned with flowers, as musicians play songs, and delicious foods are enjoyed by family members. My great grandmother and grandmother are buried next to each other. So, our families congregate at their graves, celebrating their life, fondly recalling them. Lately, however, it's been harder to visit, especially with the baby! Entonces, this year I will be honoring my loved ones from home. One way I will celebrate their lives will be with this pumpkin carlota. My dad shares that his mother, my grandmother, often made candied pumpkin during the fall season. Inspired by fall flavors like pumpkin, I made this pumpkin carlota with Galletas Maria. The result is absolutely delicious! Paired with a hot cafecito, it is the perfect autumn treat. I will enjoy this dessert, along with other foods that remind me of my sweet Nanas. Additionally, I will listen to music that reminds me of them. That is how I will honor their memory this season, from home. Thankfully, Northgate Market has all of the ingredients I need to celebrate. The cookies, pumpkin, spices, and even flowers. How are you honoring your departed loved ones this year? Let me know in the comments. May their memories live on. #NorthGateMarket #Ad

I’ve been telling you all for a minute now that I was a finalist for the International Latino Book Awards. Pues, the ceremony was this weekend! Yesterday, Herencia Cookbook received silver for Best Cookbook! 🥈 Today, Herencia Cookbook was awarded gold for Best Latino Focused Design! 🥇 Super humbled and grateful for this recognition. I worked so hard to get here. You see, I didn’t just write this book. I also published it and put my own money into it. On top of all that, I managed this project from start to finish- interviewing and hiring my editor, photographers, proofreader, and award winning designer. On top of all that, I did this while working a 9-5, and pregnant ❗️I had no days off. There were so many times when I wanted to throw in the towel and just put my feet up and forget about it all. But I powered through thanks to the encouragement of my loved ones. Throughout the whole process, I prayed to God for strength, patience, and discernment. I asked Him to put the right people in my path. Gracias Diosito 🙏🏼💖 All the glory to Him ☝🏼 And a special thank you to this community, for those of you who have purchased the book, made one of my recipes, liked a post, told your friends about this. Y’all are supporting a Latina with a dream, and a self-funded business. Muchísimas gracias a ustedes de todo corazón.

Learn how to make sopes and an arrayan margarita tomorrow in my free virtual cooking class, in partnership with @northgatemarket 👩🏻‍💻 👩🏻‍🍳 Tuesday 9/28 @ 6 pm PST Register at the link in my bio 🔗

Happy #NationalLatinaDay ! What better way to celebrate than with good news?! I am happy and proud to say that Herencia Cookbook is an award winning cookbook!! 🥳Gracias a Dios. 🙏

Are you ready for another cooking class? #ad This Saturday, August 7th, @northgatemarket and I are coming together again to bring you another fun and free virtual cooking class. This class in particular is for the kiddos! I will also demonstrate how to make a Yakult + Lychee cooler. This drink is refreshing for kids and adults alike. Plus, it is a great source of probiotics. Additionally, I will demonstrate how to make air fryer mozzarella sticks. These are not just any mozzarella sticks, however! These are special. I use Oaxaca cheese. And, for the breading I use crushed @cheezit crackers! The result is so cheesy and yummy. You don’t want to miss this. I hope to see you in class! You can register at the link in my bio.

Learn how to make this cafe de olla martini, Salvadorian salpores de arroz, and peanut butter cookies! Join me in my next free virtual cooking class, sponsored by @northgatemarket Wednesday, July 28 @ 6 pm PST will be my sweetest class yet. You can register at the link in my bio! #northgatepartner