Hamm.  Corn coffee.  I would try any coffee once.  I love coffee.  You know, 
I have had plantains here.  I don't like it very well.  I have some Spanish 
friends.  Also, Carmon gave me some chocolate that you fix hot like that. 
It's round in a hard brick sort of thing.  I haven't tried it yet.
For unto us a child is born.  Unto us a son is given.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sharon Hooley" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 6:55 PM
Subject: El Salvadorian and Mexican Food


> Hi Rhonda and all!
>
> You asked me about El Salvadorian food.  Here I am, finally, to answer at
> least some of your questions.  I found out this morning that none of the
> food at the house wedding was El Salvadorian.  They couldn't find some of
> the ingredients for what they wanted to make.  But at Christmastime, I did
> get a chance to eat their kind of Tamali.  I like it okay.  My sister Judy
> likes them better than the Mexican kind.  For New Years Eve, there was a
> sandwich that is made in El Salvador, with turkey, celery, cucumber, maybe
> avacado and I don't know what else.  It had a different flavor than what 
> I'm
> used to.  One night some time ago, we had a fire going outside, and we 
> ate.
> One of the things they had was plantains, which is a type of banana that 
> you
> have to cook.  It was sweet, and not too bad.  I've also drank at least 
> two
> kinds of Mexican drinks that were sweet, but you'd probably have to get 
> used
> to the flavors.  One of them was hot chocolate, made from Mexico's own 
> cocoa
> beans.  I asked blanca if she thought this chocolate is more healthy than
> the American kind, and she said yes.  If I had to give up American, I 
> would
> drink Mexican.  The same with a piece of chocolate she cut for me to 
> taste.
> Another thing I like about this hot chocolate is that they put corn starch
> in it to make it thick.  Wouldn't that be a kind of substitute for the
> creamy texture?  It is called "champurrado".  My niece, Blanca, remembers
> that in the orphanage in Guatemala, where she lived before being adopted 
> by
> Judy and her husband Wendell, a treat made with merang (don't know the
> spelling).  She wants it for her wedding.  My care provider Blanca thinks
> she knows what that is, and her cousin, who also spent part of her life in
> an orphanage in El Salvador, might know how to make it.
>
> At the house wedding, we had a meat and veggie dish that I think was more
> oriental, and maybe rice, I don't remember for sure.  We also had Chile
> beans that Jose cooked in a special way, potato salad, and tortillas on 
> the
> side.  Later we did have cake.  I asked Blanca if they ate potato salad in
> El Salvador, and she said she didn't know because she was raised in a poor
> neighborhood.  One interesting thing is that the poor families could not
> afford milk, so they drank coffee made of corn.  Wouldn't that be
> interesting to try?
>
> sharon
>