Road Trip to Baja, Vegan Meals The vegan diet challenge continues in Baja. We drove for three days to our home in Mexico. I brought instant oatmeal with flax seed, sprouted whole grain bread, peanut butter, fruit spread, hummus, cut up apples, carrot sticks and bags of cooked quinoa, edamame, rice, roasted chic peas and…
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La Gringa’s Weekly Baja Menu and CSA Boredom
CSA BOREDOM? It’s easy to get bored with Mexican winter vegetables; Swiss chard, beets, butternut and spaghetti squash, cherry tomatoes and peppers. Greens and squash, rinse and repeat. Making a weekly menu and adjusting your focus may help. I have to remind myself to feel gratitude. Boredom just means that I haven’t tried any new…
La Gringa’s Weekly Menu, Made With Love
Made With Love by T. Delaplain La Gringa’s Weekly Menu is a useful tool to help me eat real food at home, use the abundance of fruits and vegetables that I buy and stop the “what’s for dinner?” woes. I’m trying to get back on the real whole food wagon and planning is everything for…
When An Amiga Gives You Oranges… Make Magic. How To Use Fresh Orange Juice
Oranges are the fruit I most associate with Christmas. We never had much money at Christmas but my Mom always made sure we had a few gifts under the tree and a stocking filled with oranges and whole nuts. Oranges always make me think of her. So when my dinner guests arrived this week, bearing…
Holiday Challenge: Dance As If No One Is Watching
Are you having trouble keeping your Maintain Don’t Gain promise? Maybe these strategies will help. 1) Crank up the holiday music and dance as if no one is watching. Close the drapes just in case. If you need dance ideas, watch “White Christmas” with Bing and Rosemary Clooney and follow that weird sequence of modern…
Advice For Mexican Snowbirds: Securing Your Home For Extended Travel
Securing Your Home for Extended Travel Nothing ruins your beach day faster than a call from a neighbor in the north that you have water running our of your basement or there’s an unfamiliar moving van parked in your driveway. True story; my husband once received a call from his father’s neighbor that there were…
Easy Healthy No Cook Meals For Camping or Travel in Mexico
A shopping list and menu for 3 days of healthy no cook meals. Perfect for an end of Summer, Labor Day camping trip, or exploring and surfing trips all year-long in Baja Mexico. One of the best reasons to travel is to explore the local cuisine but eating out for every meal can be expensive…
Ten Essential Kitchen Gadgets You Can’t Live Without in Mexico
Seeing double? No, it’s me not you. I’m growing my new blog at MyBajaKitchen but it’s lonely over there so I thought I’d post on both blogs (or maybe you do need your eyes checked) 🤔 to entice you to come visit me! I’m writing recipes and stories from my expat life in Baja, Mexico,…
Ten Essential Kitchen Gadgets You Can’t Live Without in Baja, Mexico
Ten Kitchen Gadgets You Can’t Live Without in Baja, Mexico Every chef or home cook has a list of essentials kitchen gadgets that they can’t live without and these are ten of my favorite kitchen tools that make my life easier. Of course I could make do with a knife, a cutting board and fire but…
A Blue Day On The Baja
A blue, pink and yellow day on the Baja. I’m a little blue today despite the sunshine. What’s la Gringa to do when she’s got the Baja Blues? Put on some music and dye eggs with colorful vegetables from the food bin, of course. We have been in Mexico away from our family…
What's for dinner, Doc? 