Karla & Cecilia and their father, Arturo
Cecilia will be with us for one school year and Karla will live with another family starting on Sept 1st. They are from Mexico City and already have introduced us to so many hot peppers!
Lunch at the Prestige
Kokanee Park to see the Redfish spawning
I tried really hard to catch one jumping, but my patience ran out!
This was the only bear we saw :-)
Spawning channel
Orientation at Trafalgar for new students
Mr. Piro & Mr. Anast
Arturo cooked for us a couple of fantastic meals. Thank you to his mother who he phoned several times (to Mexico) for advice :-) He did a very good job!
Start assembling....I turned my back for a moment and missed these steps. He's added the brown minute rice, saffron with water, and everything else. Then you let simmer for something like 20 min. I'll have to go ask again about these steps.
We forgot about the mussels!
The next meal is a traditional food served on Mexicos Independence Day, Sept 15
Because Arturo is returning home on Sat they requested this special dish.
Pozoles
Ancho Peppers, fry on skillet then add to pot cover with water and boil. He used 5 bags of this! Remove seeds and tops. Put into blender. Photo courtesy of the web.
Tomatoes were scorched and also added to blender along with a few million cloves of garlic!
He blended the stuff in the blender and then strained it all into the pot of boiling water. I stopped taking pictures at this point as things were getting somewhat crazy in my kitchen! In the pot are chicken breasts with bones, a couple of pork chops with bones and a cheesecloth with onions and garlic inside. Cumin added later. Salt to taste. Don't forget to add the hominy! The meat is removed, chicken shredded, pork cut up. Ladle into bowls. Add some meat then top with radishes, onions, oregano (we forgot this part), limes, Iceburg lettuce, tortilla chips.
Wow! Even the fussiest eater in the group liked this!
I stole this off the internet...kinda looks like this ;-)
Adios Arturo! Mucho gracias!
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