After a long year of Jarrod working abroad and being stuck abroad, he is finally home. We are officially kicking off our first year of marriage… a year late…
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As my darling ass husband says, “I’m married to a Filipina, I have no control over my body anymore.” In every culture, our strongest and even earliest memories are of food and of whom we shared it with. For Filipinx’s, the connection to our culture, food, and loved ones is strong. So strong that there […]
read more >Periods are awful. Even beyond the cravings, hormonal fluxes, cramping, bloating, there’s the constant fear of blood dripping down your leg during class or having a giant red spot in your new white pants. Periods are also wildly expensive between the boxes of tampons and pads that you’re not even sure you have enough of […]
read more >Laundry sucks, but I feel like it doesn’t have to suck THAT bad. There has to be a laundry detergent that’s plant-based, thoroughly cleans, in earth-friendly containers… Right?!
read more >Trying to prioritize healthy or fresh foods in your home-cooked meals during this pandemic can be challenging, working mostly out of the pantry can get old. Thankfully, it’s summertime. It’s a really warm and late summertime here in Texas which means fruits like mangoes, peaches, and nectarines are in season and on sale! It’s not […]
read more >Some of us thought we were ahead of the curve thinking “Ok, I’ll make my own bread. Can’t be that hard right? It can’t be that many ingredients all I need is yeast!” Welp. Yeast is gone too…
read more >Comfort food in Casa Tejada on Tamrah Lane comes from many different cuisines, if it’s not Filipino Cuisine it’s Middle Eastern Cuisine. Living in an expatriate compound, pot lucks were always hodgepodge of pansit, hummus, fried rice, and even (if the host got fancy) a shawarma stand. Food was a love language for us all. […]
read more >I’m Reham’s sister, I lived in the mango yellow room across the hall. As Miranda Lambert would say, it was the house that built me. In that house you could find a whole table filled with towels ready for swim practice, a rice cooker always filled with rice, and three huge boxy TVs (think VCRs […]
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