PrissyCook

I’ve always been enchanted with Mexico. It’s the colors, the sounds, the people and of course the food! My dad calls it my ’spice.’
After college I moved to San Antonio, TX and it was there that I was able to explore and learn more about this amazing culture. There were Mariachi festivals, luminarias, tamales and [...]

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Fa-la-la-la! Do you think there is such a thing as Christmas Song Attention Deficit Disorder? Baking away today I’d find myself singing one song and before I knew it I was on a totally different song.
But it’s not a bad thing to have happy songs running through your head. For two days in a row [...]

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 Black Friday. I’ve always heard about it, but quite honestly, I’ve never paid attention to it. My participation in Black Friday shopping was always watching people go crazy on the local news channel. I’ve never ever thought about actually leaving a kitchen full of left-overs to go shopping.
Part of my lack of participation could be [...]

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If you’re anything like me around the holidays, your schedule is full, your days are busy and you’re enjoying the hustle and bustle of the season. The other night I was out for sushi and guess what was on the radio all ready…you guessed it…Christmas music.
And this is the time of year when my spice [...]

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I’ve said it before. I don’t like breakfast all that much, but I somehow am incapable of skipping a meal. I’m always shocked when I hear someone say, “I was too busy and I forgot/didn’t have time for lunch.”
Or my favorite skipping a meal excuse, “Oh, I had some almonds and some trail mix.” Really, [...]

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Comfort zone. Doesn’t it feel good to get outside of it?
On Thursday, I rode the city bus to work. A bus ride for me, is usually coupled with an overseas vacation. I can honestly say that I have not been on a public bus as a matter of living my everyday life ever.The rental car [...]

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 Learning. I love the learning process that commences whenever I find a new recipe that either features a method, ingredient or region I haven’t explored before. While sifting though old magazines, I came across a page I had dog-eared with a recipe for Harira. A soup from Northern Africa.
We had a team building event a [...]

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I remember the first fight I saw at school. I went home wide-eyed and told my parents what happened. My mom lectured that classy girls don’t get into fights and my dad whole heartedly agreed.
Not ten minutes later, my dad called me into the garage.  “Listen, if you ever get into a fight, you’ll be [...]

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In Texas there’s a saying that if you don’t like the weather stick around for a minute. It’ll change. That’s not the case in Arizona. When you live in the desert one thing is very constant…the summer heat.
What makes it so bearable is knowing that at the end of summer is some of the most [...]

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Action leads to motivation. I truly believe that. Over the past few months I’ve mimicked initiatives started by other people. AfricanKelli sent out a charge to see what each of her readers could do in a week focused on ‘reduce, reuse, recycle’ and I picked up what I think are great habits.
I was just preforming [...]

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