Darlene Navarrette Rosen

I'm a new Mom and I love it! I have been in the kitchen helping since the age of 3...I am the 7th of 8 siblings. I bought my first cookbook at age 7 (I still have it). My mother cooked beautiful traditional Mexican food. Homemade flour & corn torillas, pot after pot of beans, chile in every way imaginable...& my favorite Mexican calabasita. My Mother cooked breakfast, lunch & dinner...we rarely ate out (maybe 2 times a year). Mom would pack a beautiful picnic when we traveled. I now love to picnic with my family when we travel, go to the zoo, the park, even in our backyard.