Gina Ruiz on August 19th, 2010

My oldest son Albert is a fiend for my fried chicken.  He’s probably gonna scream and holler on the phone at me, but I call him Nano.  I never call him Albert even though he’s trained the rest of the family to do so.  He was a tiny preemie baby, nothing like the huge beast [...]

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Gina Ruiz on March 20th, 2010

My grandmother Lupe was famous for her cooking in our neighborhood.  Even within our family of excellent cooks, she stood out and everyone loved her cooking.  Today at the hospital, I saw two of my mother’s cousins 2nd cousins, Angie and Louise whom I hadn’t seen in years and they were talking about the enchiladas [...]

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Gina Ruiz on August 18th, 2008

I’ve been craving my grandmother’s arroz con pollo for a couple of days now.  I’ve been a little obsessed actually.  I can’t remember when the last time I had it was, but it had to have been when I was in my teens.  I tried making it a couple of times when I was married, [...]

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