Monday, January 3, 2011

Happy Holidays and Happy Birthday

I just returned from my trip home to celebrate the new year with my soul blistas and in turn celebrate my mom's 70th birthday.  I am beat I had to take a 3 hour nap when I got back.  Right now Kevin is outside dealing with the car I ran out of gas (he's a KEEPER) and I am working on making Chiles Rellenos with poblano sauce.  Well, technically I'm writing this, but the peppers are steaming in the brown paper bag.

I had a wonderful time back home, and everytime I go I can't get enough of the food that I love so for the next little while I'll be trying to recreate the flavors of home.

It was a shock to see my oldest brother at the birthday party.  None of us thought he could make it with work and MaryJane having surgery, but he suprised us all and made the trip up from Houston.

It was a delight seeing all my nieces, nephews and their children. My family is huge and I feel like a barely know the little ones.  I'll have to correct that as much as I can this year.

Meringue Cookies

I finally made beautiful vanilla meringue cookies.  It has taken me several attempts to get these to turn out looking and tasting great. ...