Mexican food
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One thing that keeps me from going absolutely stir crazy is watching the world around me. I am blessed to live in the country, and I love watching things “wake up” during the spring. When I need to clear my head of all the negativity going on in our current situation, I often step outside and listen to the birds. They are going about life as normal, trusting their Creator to care for them as He always does. Observing nature…..
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…..