After three weeks of repeating after Edmundo”s Cuban trainer, Osmany, as I lift a weight or count the repititions of exercise routines, I still have difficulty in counting to ten in Spanish unaided. My “right brain” must be atrophied or something like that. I”ve now resorted to the children”s dictionary to give it one last attempt before …
Crab claws and Gulf shrimp with Peggy”s homemade mustard sauce with a whole 2oz can of Colman”s dry mustard! What a way to start the evening repast! After a traditional exchange of gifts around Peggy”s Christmas tree, we sat down to a splendid home-cooked repast – starting with seafood in the Italian style. Unusual to …
And now to party! Click here for the secret recipe that I finagled out of Edmundo”s caterer: http://stories.michaelmus.com/SANGRIARECIPE.doc
Like the kids at the Cuban Christmas Eve party last night when Santa Claus arrived with a sack of presents, I was taken by surprise this morning not exactly to find a gift under the tree in Edmundo”s living room, but to see what he had arranged through a little Artisan Shop in Mexico City. What …
Hosts Fausto and Alina entertained their extended “Cuban” family in the garden under five huge old oak trees on Christmas Eve. The centre of the festivities was the “Lechon Cubano”, a 60 lb pig that had been marinating in sour orange, garlic and cumin since the night before, and then cooking in the “caja china”, …