Meme: 10 things you never knew about me...

Thank you Ilva for tagging me for this MeMe!

Well, I won't make you wait any longer,...here they are:

1. Two years ago, when The CookingDiva blog was born, all the recipes and stories were posted in Spanish. Then I decided to write in English too, and created the "TastyDesign" blog (the one you are visiting right now). Time passed and I noticed that most of my visitors where from English speaking countries..., so since then I write recipes in English and post them at the CookingDiva blog.
2. I am "obsessive convulsive baker/cooker."  I can  go on  and on for days (just  taking  short breaks).  There was this time when I  cooked continuously for  72 hours, then I learned that it is possible to cook in my sleep!
3. I prepared my first soup at the age of five. I bugged my mom until she let me do it. I put a little chair in front of the stove, and with her next to me I prepared a delectable fish soup that had everything I could find in the kitchen at the time! Then, my mom helped me to serve it and we (my mom, my dad and little-Mely) had an unforgettable lunch. I was so excited!  I was so proud of my parents because they managed to eat the soup :)
4. My first fruitcake: After insisting for so many years,...my mom let me prepare my first fruitcake at the age of 7-8 yo, I am not so sure about the exact age. Since I was a big girl then, with lots of cooking experience (LOL!) she let me do it by myself. She helped me measure all the ingredients and we went through the recipe a couple of times before she went shopping. I was supposed to have the cake batter ready to bake when she returned home. To make the long story short, I can tell you that I had the great idea of tasting the "port wine". Wow,...what a body, what a flavor!!! It was my first time savoring such a thing. Hmmm...., delicious! That is the last memory I have...When my mom came back home I was on my back, on the floor, with my eyes wide open....horrified because the house was spinning! No cake, no nothing. Thanks to that experience I hated alcohol for many many many years :)
5. I am the oldest of my parent's three children. My sister Paola was born 5 years after me and she has now a beautiful daughter: Paola Alexandra. I adore that little girl. My mom says that she looks exactly like me when I was that age! My brother Juan Manuel was born 8 years after me and he is a computer genius, and the dog sitter that takes care of Silky-Lu and Anibal when I travel.
6. My mother language is actually Portuguese. I lived in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil when I was really young and then went back to Sao Paulo to go to college.
7. I have been writing poems in Spanish mostly since I was a teenager. They are all impregnated with tears of love and passion. I have loved too much I guess :)
8. I believe that one of the sexiest things in life is "bread dough". Maybe that's why I bake so much :)
9. I rarely watch TV, and when I do so...it is the perfect setting to take a nap.
10. I love to eat flowers, specially roses, and for that purpose I grow them organically. I also make flower essences from tropical flowers (like the Bach flower essences), for stress relief.

Now I am inviting the following bloggers to continue this meme:

• Kelly from the Make Me Cook blog
• Kelly from the MsABCMom blog
• Sao Mai from the Cocinalia blog
• Tania from the CandiedQuince blog
• Cannella from the Zuccheriera blog

Tags: chef, Panama, cookingdiva, meme, food blogs

 

Comments

[ilva]

Hey this was great and highly interesting! I like you cooking style as a kid! And that you are a compulsive cook! well I like it all actually!

[melissa_cookingdiva]

Thank you Ilva,...some things never change :)

[Nerissa]

This was a super trip through your life, Melissa. I can't say I had the "let me cook it myself" experiences as a child. I tended to eat the produce of my mother's garden and, with cooking, help her cut and stir and stuff. A sous-chef, I guess ;-) I'm glad you have focussed so much on us English speakers. What a charming woman we would have missed otherwise. Does this mean you speak three languages? Portugese, Spanish and English? Or are there more? ;)
I eat flowers too but not on a very regular basis. I'm so interested that you make flower remedies. I don't know much about it but I hear good things all the time.
Alas, I watch TV a bit too much these days. I really have to find some other way to focus my thoughts after a long day with kids on the verge of hormone-city. It's exhausting mentally. I've lost my verve lately and am abandoning recipe testing when it's probably just the thing I need. Kick me in the rear, would you?

I am the eldest too in my family. I have a younger sister who has taken baking and pastry in school but who is currently a pet groomer (she is magic with animals).

I'm letting the image of your port experience (mmmm... port) taking me smiling to work.

Ciao!

[tony]

I sent you another Meme....lol

[Elvira]

Very interesting! :-)

[Jacqueline]

No había venido a este blog, no entiendo por qué. Está super chévere. Muy interesante... Muy apetitoso!
Saludos, Jackie

[melissa]

Hola Jacqueline!!! gracias por visitar mi "otro blog". Es un poco dificil de accesar desde el de cookingdiva. Es por eso que trato de publicar aca e incluir links en CD! Abrazos y Feliz Dia del Amor y la Amistad :)

Melissa (desde Ecuador)

[Leda Moreno]

Hi There,
Liked your blog. I also make panamannian flower essences. We should get in touch.

[FLower Girl]

hey its amazing...highly informative....nice blog...its really a fantastic trip....thanks for sharing.....

http://www.flowergirldressforless.com

[gesundheit]

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