Born in Mexico...raised a California girl, I'm always trying to find my roots with my cooking. I have a big family with my mom as matriarch and master cook. So I have some big shoes to fill. In the meantime, I work full time and am raising 3 kids (a husband) and the ugliest dog in the world. I love cooking food that my mom always made when we were younger. She doesn't really have any recipes, so it's a challenge. Every time she cooks, it's a unique experience since variations on ingredients are never the same. I also love Mexican food El Paso style. I would like to dabble more in Italian and Filipino dishes. My all time fav is BBQ and down home Southern comfort food. I come from a Mexican Family. Family gatherings center around the kitchen and dinning areas. I love having family around the kitchen cooking, sitting around the dinner table talking, laughing,joking, drinking and eating. Baking a homemade pie from scratch. And anytime I can get a thumbs up from my family is a triumph. Trying to master homemade flour tortillas. I know I'll never get them like my mom's, but I'll die trying. Anytime my husband pours ketchup over a dish that I have taken time to prepare and present is a Shakespearean tragedy of the worst kind.