About
Hello! My name is Melissa, Welcome to Hungry Food Love!
photo taken by Roseanna Lynn Photography
About me:
I am a wife-mother-sister-friend and now blogger that enjoys demonstrating love through food. There is no pastime, activity, entertainment or hobby that makes me more happy than the culinary world. I am not a professional cook, nor do I know it all, but I want to know more. I have an inexplicable desire to share my love for food. Every time I whip-up a super yummy dish, I just feel like yelling out the window how awesome food makes me feel, but then again, why would anyone do that? So instead I am just going to write it down and share it all with you.
Since I moved to the United States from my home country, the Dominican Republic, I have been exposed to so many new influences very different from what I grew up with. The more and more I know, the more I want to learn and try myself.
During the past 5 years, I have embarked on a path of gastronomic self-discovery as this love for everything culinary simmered inside me. To cultivate this love, I have been hosting and entertaining at home, tinkering with the thought of starting a catering business, creating a Facebook page with recipes and step by step photos, contributing to the local newspaper food blog and now finally launching my very own blog.
About the best in my life:
The comfy couch kitchen is my favorite spot in our house. Here, my precious little L, Mr. B and I create new memories every day.
As you can see below, Mr. B is very hands-on in the kitchen.
And here is little L, our great companion that keeps us always smiling, busy and entertained.
About this Blog:
hungryfoodlove was born out of my love for love, delicious eats and kind souls. I wanted to create a place where I can express myself sharing encouraging messages of LOVE while discovering and learning more about FOOD; that is where the foodlove part comes from. HUNGRY stems from how fascinated I was by the powerful reach that many food blogs have nowadays. When trying to define my objectives with this blog, I said to myself “if I ever get to reach anyone I want to take advantage of that opportunity to do some good” and that is why I founded Food for Thought where with your help I will try to raise funds to feed young students in the Dominican Republic.
About You:
My dear reader, first of all let me tell you how happy it makes me to know that you are here. I am honored. I don’t know much about you yet but I would love for you to join the conversations, tell me what you think, share your stories, give me ideas and come back for more. I am so stoked that you are here and for that, Thank You!
Lets stay connected:
Que lindo! Aplastando los tostones. Buen chico. Me encantan los tostones. Buena suerte con tu blog. Que Dios bendiga a tu nena.
Siiii el es el experto haciendo tostones. Es mejor que yo pelandolos, aplastandolos y freindolos. Le quedan riquisimo.
Me encanta!! El otro dia estaba buscando tu antigua página, que bueno que creaste esta!! =)
Que bueno Carla! Aqui estoy a la ordern! Comparte la pagina con tus amigos para que mas personas puedan ver las recetas!
Loved your page! So cute & thoughtful.. For some reason ur pics reminded me of “Julie & Julia”, lolz *:)
Thank you Jeimy! hahaha I loved that movie and felt so identified with Julie ..that has been me all my life cooking and loving it! Hope you keep enjoying this blog, come back for more and share with your friends. Did you see the new post? http://hungryfoodlove.com/2012/10/03/four-dinners-in-paris/
Me encanta! Haciendo tostones! Ha sido una grata sorpresa encontrar tu blog. Ahora estoy con el móvil pero en cuanto pueda me paseo con calma con la compu. Yo también soy dominicana viviendo en Mallorca y de vez en cuando trato de publicar alguna delicia de nuestra tierra. Muchos éxitos y muchas felicidades por tu blog!
Gracias Rosilet! aqui estoy a tu orden. Espero que regreses y estes pendiente a las demas recetas. Tambien por favor comparte la pagina de facebook para asi conseguir mas likes (me gusta) y poder llegar a mas personas. Siempre comenta, pregunta y estaremos en contacto!
Estoy sin palabras, es la primera vez que veo tu página y esta chulísima!! Felicidades!!
This is amazing Melissa! Cant wait to share with all of my friends!
Thanks Cynthia and yes please share with all your friends. Visit our facebook page, like the page and encourage others to do the same! that would be a great help!
hola melissa! i’m so happy I can across your lovely blog. so many wonderful recipes and beautiful photography. we have similar things in common, i see. we’re both dominican, wives, mothers to girls (your daughter is adorable, btw) and share a passion for good food. please take a look at my blog (www.theheartnart.wordpress.com). if it strikes your fancy, please follow me. i’d love for you to be in my community of supportive, inspiring woman in this blogging world of ours. i look forward in trying out some of your mouth-watering dishes. (p.s: i linked your pernil recipe on one of my recent thanksgiving posts). muchas gracias – raquel
Hola Raquel!!!! I am the one that is super excited that you found me! Your blog looks soo awesome! I will take the time to go through it but at a first glance I noticed that indeed we have many many things in common and that’s so cool! I cant wait to follow you, get to know you, be connected and maybe collaborate in the future. Thanks again, TTYL!
awesome! thanks for stopping at my little corner of the internet. i’m looking forward in connecting, learning and being supportive of each other
Hi Melissa! It was nice meeting you at People Quest
I’m already getting hungry just by looking at photos of some recipes. Will definitely try cooking some of the dishes here, will let you know how it goes:)
Slava thank you so much for stopping by and subscribing to the blog. I am glad you like what you have seen and it was a pleasure to meet you as well. lets stay in touch! You can follow the blog through facebook too! Thanks