From childhood memories to love at first taste
Cooking is my first language of love.
It began in childhood.
After exploring other creative paths.
The kitchen is where I find real calm.
Me, that’s Mona.
My roots?
French, Italian… a little Colombian by adoption. And above all, deeply greedy!
My passion?
An unconditional love of cooking and of the pleasure of having people round.
Mona behind the stove.
My speciality?
Cooking that is entirely intuitive, never following a recipe to the letter.
A nuisance for somebody who runs a cooking blog? Not at all — let me prove you the opposite!
My taste for sharing being stronger than anything, it is a pleasure to hand you my finest successes…
I always have ideas for recipes simmering away in my head!
Welcome to my kitchen
When I make a dish I always follow the same method: a pinch of inspiration, a drop of escape, but above all… a good ladle of instinct!
A creative freedom I love, but one with a knack for leaving my guests wanting: I could never pass on how I had made anything, because I cooked on instinct and never wrote a thing down.
To keep a record of my creations and share them easily, I started the MonaSpice Instagram account. But the adventure did not stop there…
One day a friend told me how frustrating it was not to be able to see any of it, not being on social media. He offered to help me build a place of its own for this passion, open to everyone. And that is how monaspice.com came about!
Healthy, generous plates, with no aftertaste of guilt!
Looking after yourself has never meant giving up pleasure.
Most of what I make is gluten-free as well.
A cuisine of contrast: from here and elsewhere
Travel, discoveries, the people you meet along the way.
I like building bridges between cultures and flavours.
- A fine balance between character and sweetness.
- Traditions from here meeting traditions from elsewhere.
- Plates as wholesome as they are indulgent.
For me, cooking only truly makes sense when it is shared around a big table, surrounded by the people you love.
This site is an extension of that passion.
Put on an apron — who knows, you might just let yourself be tempted.