Hi, welcome to Inspired with a Twist, I’m happy you’re here! Growing up in Dominican Republic and Miami, I would watch the women in my family cook, and not once did they pick up a measuring spoon. At times they would use a small teacup to add any ingredient they needed to their dish. This has always stuck with me, and it’s how I now cook. I haven’t been serious in the kitchen for very long, only about 4 years. I first started cooking when I was 12, I remember the first thing I made was Mangu con Huevo Frito y Salami. Mangu is the Dominican Republic’s most celebrated dish. We eat it for breakfast, lunch or dinner, so it was only right that this was the first dish I learned how to make. Years later in 2015, after having my son, and moving to Seattle from Miami, I had to learn how to cook fast. Everything I had back home wasn’t accessible anymore. The spices, the flavors, the culture, it was no longer around in the Pacific Northwest.