COLADA MORADA is a rather thick fruit punch, a dark purple color because of the fruits ....very good...you really need to eat it with a spoon to scoop up the chunks of plums, pineapple, etc...
GUAGUAS de PAN .... Quechua for "bread children" -- meaning sweet rolls in the shape of people (kids) .... Delicious fruit marmalade filled little rolls.....
Last night Susana brought over the warm Colada Morada and a couple of the doll rolls for us to enjoy....she made the Colada Morada and it was delicious!! ....
Susana Cabrera is our dear neighbor and
precious friend...
Today is Geovani's birthday so I made a couple of hot sauces and some humus to take to him.....Bertha invited us to eat almuerzo with them to celebrate....she made tacos and they were delicious!! Bertha is becoming a very good Mexican cook which makes me feel really good because they hardly knew anything about Mexican food before we moved in....She made ground beef taco meat, refried beans, & guacamole, and put that all on the table with hot flour tortillas, sour cream, shredded lettuce, grated cheese, tortilla chips, and my hot sauces.....we all chowed down....it was so good to see them enjoying the tacos they each made...
The humus I served with carrot sticks and slices of cucumber....they liked that too....
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Yesterday we met some very nice people who just moved here 2 months ago from St. Louis.....They have been going to Mass at different Catholic Churches here (there are 52 so you can go to a different one each week of the year! ) Now they are going to San Roque where there is an English Mass every Sunday at 12:30 pm so we will check it out....Months ago they started an English Mass at 9 am so we never went....Noon Mass with lunch after is our typical Sunday.
Anyway Patricia and Lyle Rhoades came to our house -- she looking for clothes (found a cute jacket) .... really enjoyed meeting them -- they are so much like us... both entrepreneurs, conservative politically, pro life, & leaving the U.S. to escape all the horrid changes to our country......they seem to be very happy here and are close to having their Residency Visas and Cedulas.....what you call muy buena gente ..-- "good people" ... with a delightful sense of humor, both of them!! As soon as they get their Cedulas (national ID) we will help them get enrolled in IESS so they can get into the medical care system here....Lyle told about having an intestinal problem a few months ago in the states where he was hospitalized a couple of days = $17,000.00 bill --- compared to my week in the Hospital del Rio where the bill was $1100.00 and we had to pay $56!!!
This weekend are the "Fiestas de Cuenca" where they celebrate their independence from Spain......All kinds of parades, rodeos, food fairs, and vendors selling everything imaginable.... Lots of tourists and traffic -- hopefully we'll get to El Centro to participate....
Hope everyone has a very HAPPY HALLOWEEN and to the children....
LOT'S OF CANDY!!!
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