Armida Cooks!

Last Christmas is a bit of a blur to me. I was so focused on my daughter (who was one-year old at the time) and I wanted to avoid my extend...

Someone once told me that divorce is like a death in the family and that you need to go through the five stages of loss in order to get ove...

Sometimes you find yourself awake on a Sunday morning, slightly hungover from the previous night's wine that you just had a bit too m...

As of late, my daughter (who is 20 months-old) has been a picky eater. I know that she eats a lot of organic fruits and veggies and prote...

I have become a Fresh and Easy groupie. If you don't know what Fresh and Easy is, it's a wonderful low-cost food market...

I feel so bad that I have not been cooking much lately. I guess you can say I'm in a bit of a funk. And yes, my friends, the rumor...

I have a fascination with baking and with people who do well in baking mainly because I am so bad at it. Baking truly is a science and pe...

I had a bunch of new recipes I made during the last few months and I was about to post them when, poof!, all my pictures disappeared. Al...

I don't know what it is about me that I'm obsessed in finding that perfect meatball recipe. I have a few meatball recipes on my ...

It rained all of last week and, for San Diego, that is pretty much unheard of. However, we welcomed the rain because our city totally n...

Obey the bacon! Yes, my friends, I had a Baconpalooza party for my birthday and we made everything "bacon." From bacon-wrap...

On Christmas night of 2006, my husband, my brother-in-law, Michael (along with Max and Lola), and myself had a barbecue--yes, a BBQ! It w...

Today was a really long day for Stella and me. We got up at 6:30am, did our daily mama/baby routine and at 2pm we were at the mall for ...

My version of khinkali. They don't look like they are supposed to, but they tasted SO GOOD! The two in the background were already...