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Perfect Roll out cookies
With this recipe and tips you will get the perfect roll out cookies. They wont spread and they taste delicious. You will get the perfect cookie to decorate later with icing or fondant. This tips can apply to most roll out cookie recipe, but most day this tips are specially made for my roll out cookie recipe. 1.Use room temperature ingredients Having your ingredients at room temperature will guarantee that all of them will mix in well without lumps. If the butter is too soften or melted your cookies will spread in the oven. I also like using high quality butter, usually European style butter it makes the cookies more flavorful.…
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Hospital Bag Must Haves
This list of Hospital bag must haves, will give you a great idea of what you need to pack for your baby, specially if you are a first- time mom or if your last time was a couple of years ago and have bad memory like me lol. I extended a little bit more for the baby stuff. Below the baby list you can find a complete checklist for mom, baby and other stuff to bring to the hospital. 1.Baby nail clippers. This is something must moms don´t think about, but if your baby comes with long nails, trust me that will be one of the first thing you will…
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Floral Greenery Baby Shower
I had been loving for a long time the floral greenery Baby shower themes. It’s a simple, elegant, timeless and kind of an easy theme to find matching things. A dear friend organized and hosted a baby shower for me and she proposed the greenery theme, which of course I loved. Living far away from your home country makes this type of events kind of hard to celebrate away from your family, and friends. 4 Years ago we had a Long distance baby shower (you can look more about it here) , it was unique, we all felt loved and my little one was celebrated in a different cute way.…
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Swing Set Playhouse Decor
I was debating about getting a playhouse or a Swing set for our backyard, and I found this Playhouse Swing set at Walmart, it was a great deal, about 40% off original price. As we got the great deal and I really wanted a cute playhouse, we decide to give it a makeover while we were assembling it. I will write a full post next week with all the details about how we assembled it and the paint and tools we used. This post it’s about all the accessories and extras we incorporate to the Playhouse. We spent a total of $50 for the accessories. The upper level doesn’t have…
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Hibiscus and Mint Popsicle Recipe
A couple of months ago I try The Good Pop Hibiscus popsicles at HEB as soon as I tried them, I knew I had to re create that Hibiscus and Mint Popsicle recipe. It was one of the most refreshing popsicles I have tried, it was not a regular hibiscus popsicle. The mint gives the popsicle a super refreshing flavor. I fell in love with the combination. I bet you have had before hibiscus tea or Hibiscus Agua Fresca, if you haven´t, you are missing a lot! The hibiscus flower is known for its refreshing red color and vitamin C content. You can buy it any Latin American grocery store.…
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Celebrating 4th of July
Being bicultural means that we have and combine the cultural attitudes and customs of two nation, in our case USA and Guatemala. I’m still learning about USA culture. Having a daughter that was born here and living in this country, motivates me to enhance more the American culture in our home. Here I share with you some fun ideas to enjoy and connect with your children this 4th of July.
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Salpicón guatemalteco (Beef ceviche)
The Salpicón from Guatemala is probably the food I miss the most. If you have never had salpicón before, think as it is a beef salad or beef ceviche. Ideal for summer days. It’s super easy to make and you will have lots of portions it’s really abundant. It’s so abundant that sometimes I will make half recipe and with the other half of the meat I make Carne Fría. The hard thing for me was to find the right meat, because I wasn’t sure what type of beef I should use, the beef cuts in USA are really different from Latin America. After some research I found out I…
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Montessori metal insets tracing tray DIY
I came up with this DIY Montessori tracing tray, to help stabilize the insets while my daughter traces shapes. My daughter is ready to start writing, in fact she can already trace a couple of letters. So I bought this wooden, smaller, cheaper version of metal insets but I couldn’t find a tracing tray for this smaller version. What is exactly a Montessori metal inset? The Metal Insets are used in preparation for writing, to help control of writing movements and changing directions. You can learn more about how to use the insets in this article from How we Montessori and on this other link from Info Montessori you will…
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Fun and Free things to do at Galveston
Free doesn't have to mean boring, I bet you will have so much fun with this activities you will want to make them every time you visit Galveston.
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Alfajores Recipe + A Spin to serve them
This are the traditional Argentinian Alfajores recipe. Well I didn’t add any coconut or lime zest, but I accidentally discover a new way of eating alfajores that take this cookies to a whole new level of yumminess. This Alfajor recipe I have been improving it for a long time, changing some measures of the original recipe, until I got the most delicious of all. This is one of my favorite cookies, I love them as much as my Pecan snowball cookies and my lemon shortbread cookies I bought all the ingredients to make alfajores, because I really was craving for one, but couldn’t find time to make them. So my…
