Mexican food
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One of my most practiced hobbies besides cooking and sewing is crocheting. You might say I’m hooked on it. My mother taught me how when I was around five or six years old, and I have made countless items since. I started out making long chains; when I mastered that step, Mom showed me how to single crochet and then double crochet. I learned to create headbands for myself using yarn scraps from my mom’s projects. While looking through my…..
Cinco de Mayo is on Saturday of this week. I searched for some Mexican-style recipes that I had not tried before, and my kitchen has seen quite a bit of activity the past few days. While I prepared the different dishes, I couldn’t help but remember something that happened in my college Spanish class. I took two years of Spanish in high school, doing fairly well in them, so I enrolled in a class for students who had some knowledge…..
The fifth day of May (Cinco de Mayo) brings with it a focus on Mexican-style food. My family has always enjoyed this cuisine, so I have prepared several Mexican-type dishes over the years. Many of the dishes are spicy hot, but I tend to reduce the amount of hot peppers or omit them altogether, depending on the recipe. My sons, however, tend to like things much hotter than I do. Some years ago, my three children were in a college…..