Lacrima's Kitchen

07/13/2024

Woohoo! 🎉

I just got recertified in food handling, so I’m all set to keep cooking up delicious meals for you all. I’m super excited and can’t wait for more fun in the kitchen!

Make sure to follow me on Instagram for updates, news, and lots of yummy recipes. Let’s keep the good times rolling!

Cheers to more tasty adventures!

07/13/2024

My interview with Tanya

This video highlights how you can incorporate your kids into the meal process from food selection at the store to meal prep at home. You can begin by feeding...

07/13/2024

I haven't cooked for others since 2022 because I got busy cooking for my own family. Now, I'm wondering, who in the Spring, TX, and The Woodlands, TX area could use a personal chef?

I'm planning to take on a select few clients in September, October, and November and want to understand the needs from a personal chef perspective.

Here are the services I can offer:

Healthy Food Shopping and Delivery: I'll shop for healthy food, deliver it to your home, clean it up, and place it in the fridge, ready to be eaten.

Weekly Meal Prepping: I'll cook and meal prep for the entire week with my healthy Mediterranean recipes.

Cooking Classes: For any family members who want to be more involved in the kitchen but don't know where to start, I offer cooking classes.

If you have special dietary requirements due to surgery or other reasons, we can discuss tailored meal plans. Having a professional chef with a health coaching background can be life-changing.

Would love your input

03/18/2023

What is one of your biggest challenges when cooking for your family this coming week?

Post them here and I’ll give some of my tips!

Tips: to save time and money on grocery shopping, and cooking at home wholesome meals for the family!

01/08/2023

Healthy for less

We all see our grocery bills going up, but not only that, restaurant bills are also higher these days!

Making healthy and affordable dinners at home is the way to go and this dinner tonight took no more than 20 min (including prep and cook time) to make.

Boil the polenta for about 5-8 minutes, set aside. While polenta is boiling wash and deseed the peppers, cut an onion (I used red onion), wash and cut a zucchini.

Note any veggies you have in your fridge that you like to sauté would work here.

While all this is going on defrost the shrimp in the sink by running cold water on top.

When ready to sauté veggies and shrimp, take out two non stick pans or skillets and put some butter and olive oil to heat up.

When hot place the shrimp in one pan and the veggies in the other.

Use your favorite spices, I used Cajun spice mixes today and salt and pepper.

Shrimp will be done quickly. Set aside. Veggies take about 10min.

Serve and enjoy!

10/21/2022

Enjoy this fast and healthy soup recipe.

09/24/2022

Tip: if you don’t have Keurig , just open and pour in your regular coffee maker

Also, for extra pumpkin mix in some pumpkin purée and honey!

Enjoy! Thank you

08/01/2022

I am very grateful for this heartwarming review!

08/01/2022

Pm me for details on ordering

Spring TX and The Woodlands delivery only this week

07/23/2022

We’ve been busy making soup this week and the kids are having so much fun learning, tasting and eating… (non-stop!!!)

I’d love to share with you all more how to include your kids in the kitchen so one day soon you can relax and they’ll make dinner for you!

Yeah, I am sure I’m not the only one dreaming about that moment.

But seriously! They love it and it’s super fun seeing them enjoy grocery shopping and all that is involved with making family dinners!

07/14/2022

Intuitive Meal Planning: my take on it !

𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘔𝘦𝘢𝘭 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘧𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘺 - 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘯𝘫𝘰𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘤...

07/12/2022

Celebrating MOMS

A mom is worth a million bucks!

06/23/2022

Lots of laughter and new friendships!

Level 2 Cuisine at Culinary Institute Lenotre was a blast!!!

We were able to work together as a team better than Level 1, when we just got to know each other and we felt like little kids in the kitchen with little confidence in knife skills and cooking skills. ‘ONWARD we go’!

06/23/2022

Level 2 Cuisine dishes. How cool is this to learn so many dishes from start to finish in just 10 weeks?!

We also learned how to fabricate the different parts of the animal; I definitely have a new appreciation for a great butcher!

06/23/2022

Beef Wellington is a steak dish of English origin, made out of fillet steak coated with pâté (often pâté de foie gras) and duxelles, wrapped in puff pastry, then baked. Some recipes include wrapping the coated meat in a crêpe or parma ham to retain the moisture and prevent it from making the pastry soggy. (Source : Wiki)

06/23/2022

This was a competition we had to create different styles of pasta and my team (team LC & Val) won.

Loved this day of team work!

06/23/2022

I am documenting my days at Culinary Institute Lenotre, this is Level 3 cuisine. Interested to find out more about the program? I am happy to answer questions.