About

Hi, welcome to Inspired with a Twist, I’m happy you’re here!

As you may have noticed, this isn’t your typical recipe blog. This is more of an Inspiration Blog. There are no precise measurements in the recipes because I don’t measure my ingredients unless it’s baking—This is how I make the best food possible. 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.

I started looking through recipes, reading directions over and over and making sure I had all the precise measurements. Unfortunately, too often the food didn’t turn out as good as it looked or others stated, and not because the recipes were bad or even wrong, but because I always felt it needed something else. So, instead of going through recipes and seeing them as guidelines to make something, I saw them as inspiration, and that’s what I hope you get out of this Blog.

I take flavors and spices from different cultures/dishes and put my own Caribbean spin on it. I love experimenting with flavors and mixing spices together to come up with something I haven’t tasted before. I encourage you to do the same. Look at my recipes not as guidelines, but as inspiration to come up with something amazing of your own.

Buen Provecho!