My name is Nora.  I am married with two children; Abel and Fabian. They are my life. This is my last semester at CSUDH. I pray that I finally finish  my B.A.

My food selfie is one I took of the tacos my husband made in celebration of my youngest sons’ birthday on Saturday.

My favorite food is steak. In this case we had steak tacos with cilantro, onion a freshly made salsa and a cacique chipotle sour cream. My husband makes the best tacos for the family. He added my favorite ingredient “cheese”, I can eat almost any kind of cheese, especially with steak.

Growing up, my extended family would get together every other weekend for a bar-b-q or a “carne asada”.  There was no reason for it but to enjoy each others company. The carne asada consisted of a special salsa, chicken and flap steak along with side dishes like; rice, beans and potato salad. These were always prepared by the women.  There was only one uncle who would cook.  He would do a special red salsa, everybody looked forward to “El Gordo’s” red salsa. My other uncles were too “macho”  and would not cook. I thought it was weird until now, I learned that he is a great husband and a loving father who was and is not afraid of cooking nonetheless the  tease against him.  My dad never cooked not even when my mother was tired or sick. My husband enjoys cooking for us, there is no tease, I love and admire him for it.

My husband prepared this taco plate for me after I arrived home from this Food and Culture class.