15.sept.05

Quick quiz!: What do we celebrate today?
Answer: Independence Day!!!
(some puzzled minds: wait, what? I thought cinqo de mayo was mexican independence)
I took as my goal in life to take all of those puzzled minds from their error. First, is cinco de Mayo. Second, that day we celebrate la Batalla de Puebla. Third, mexican Independence is on September 15th.

I had planned an all week recipe fest here in so-then-what. But i got lazy (suprised? me neither) so instead I present you:

A mexican menu to celebrate independence!! woohoo!

First, guacamole. You take some avocados that are neither hard not too soft. You peel them and mash them. Here is where you can show your personal tocuh. Leave guacamole like that just adding salt. That's lazy guacamole. Add some chopped some chili and you have hot guacamole. Add chopped onion and tomato and you have the guacamole ,y grandma used to make. Put some lemon so it won't turn black and, a secret I thought everybody knew, leave the avocado seed on the guacamole also to prevent blackness. Eat with tortila chips. Tostitos work too.

Next,Take a can of black beans. Black beans or brown ones. No red beans or some other shit. But your beans in a pan with some oil and start mashing them with the back of a spoon. Now you have frijoles refritos. Grab some tostitos or tortilla chips, put beans on top of them. Then put cheese on top and put them on the microwave for a few seconds (10-30). Afterwards add cream cheese on top and some salsa. Now you have little tostadas.

To drink: Take a glass with ice, put in some tequila, add some lemon juice and grapefruit soda. Now you have a Paloma.
Non-alcoholic: grab some non citrus fruit (whatever fruit: sandia, papaya, guayaba, etc), dice it coarsely, put in the blender with water. Then put it in a jar and keep adding water until it is not to thick nor too thin. Add sugar to taste. Now you have Agua de frutas. A great way to consume the daily fruit portions. If the fruit is a citrus just take the juice and add water and sugar.

Soup: Put in the blender tomatos, onions, garlic and chilli if you wish and water. Process it until it's liquid. Put oil in a pan, when it is hot put the previous mixture (called caldo de jitomate) on the pan. Leave there until it stops tasting like raw tomato. Add salt and powdered chicken broth. Put in a bowl some tortilla chips (in little pieces), add hot caldo de jitomate. Then add diced avocado, sour cream and cheese (goat cheese works fine). Now you have tortilla soup.

The main course is where this starts getting hard. Because i can not think of a simple recipe. But I will get back to you with it if you are interested.

Dessert: would you take a rain check too? Because i can't think of a simple recipe either.

Some additional notes:
Lemon is the green one not the freaky yellow giants you have.
If you want to make something "mexican" just add diced onion and tomatos and chili if you want.
Also, the caldo de jitomate work for everything. Put in some ground beef and peas and carrots and you have picadillo. Put just vegetables and you have sopa de verduras. Put in some fine pasta (like angel hair) and you have sopa de pasta. Put in some steaks and you have, well, another dish.

Oh! and i also forgot eggs and all the other good stuff for breakfast. That goes in tomorrow's entry.

enjoy!

2005-09-15 at 8:09 p.m.

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mixmania.sept.list

Here it is. DRIVING
To the west: (Ghost) Riders in the sky. The Ventures
Quickly: A quai. Yann Tiersen
In a sin wagon: Amazing faith. Dixie Chicks
To the beach: Miami Vice. The ventures
Ilegally: Don't tel mamma
Away: I will survive. Cake
Happily: I'm a beliver
To your childhood: Is not eaasy being green. Kermit the frog
Someone crazy: It's oh so quiet. Björk
Thru the rain: It's raining men. Geri Halliwell
To 90210: Losing my religion. REM
Dangerously: Misirlou.
With friends: Second Hand Smoke. Public Domain
In the 80's: She Bop. Cindy Lauper
Up & down: Snakes and ladders. Joss Stone.
And hoping: Someday, somebody
To outer space: The fifth elementh.
To world domination: The world is not enough. Garbage.
To school: To sir with love.

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Around: 24 hours. Café Tacvba
To bed: Acaricame. Julieta Veneggas
Slowly: AL sol del medio día. Fernande Delgadillo
Home: El desayuno. Abeja
In a car chase: Incidente en la calle Dakota. Lost Acapulco
To the sixties: Oh! Carol
To the dark side: Olvido. Santa Sabina
To love: Pa morirse de amor. Ely Guerra
To the reolution. Perro amor explta. Bersuit
To relax: Sinfonía Comercial.

2005-09-15 at 8:04 p.m.

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back.away.from.the.statcounter

I almost never check my stats. Because the damn page doesn't remember my username and password and i'm too lazy to type them again.
But also because learning that 80% of people stays here for less that 5 seconds was *a bit* depressing.

But today I checked my stats. One of the "came from" pages? well, one was vaginal lips (i was a hit in page 11, the searcher was really interested in finding something) but another one shocked me: "never had a boyfriend"

The minute I saw it I start thinking: "please, don't let me be in the top ten, please don't let me be in the top ten." After this I started laughing out loud at myself. My own thoughts surprise me sometimes.

And no, I'm not in the top ten, I'm number 50.

And to the person that searched that: worry not, it's not that bad, not better nor worse of being in a couple, just different.
:)

2005-09-14 at 7:43 p.m.

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giving.clear.instructions

I just remembered this other anecdote of my mom's job.

There is a program that deals with providing birth control. A woman cames in again and she is pregnant again.

Doctor: But how can this been? Have you been receiving condoms?
Woman: Yes i have.
Doctor: But you have been receiving them since the last year and you are pregnant again.
Woman: I know
Doctor: But how is this happening? Are you *using* the condoms?
Woman: Yes
Doctor: and?
Woman: they are ok, only a little bit big.
Doctor: huh?
Woman: yes, my husband puts the condom on but it is too long so we cut all the part that hangs.

get it?

2005-09-14 at 7:36 p.m.

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you.should.better.ask

Here is an example of the importance of making lots of questions to a patient.

This happened at my mom's workplace:
A doctor from a clinic called to the office to ask if she should vaccinate a woman that was bitten by a hamster.

Office doctor: No, you shouldn't vaccinate her.
Clinic doctor: That was my opinion too but the hamster died after the bitting.
Office doctor: Oh! he died? then I do not know, let me ask someone else and I'll call you back
(side note: hamsters have paralyzing rabies meaning that they bit and then die)
(the office doctor asked her boss and after hearing of the hamster's death they decided to give the woman the full vaccine esqueme (sp?) so office doctor calls clinic doctor:
Clinic doctor (laughing): yes?
Office doctor: i asked and you should vaccinate the woman. Why are you laughing?
Clinic doctor: I continued the interrogation of the patient
Office doctor: and?
CLinic doctor: the woman was petting the hamster when he bit her. She was petting him because moments before, his owner throw him into the air and then failed to catch him. The woman was comforting him when he bit her and then the hamster died.
Office doctor: um, ok, then do not vaccinate
Clinic doctor: that's what I thought.

2005-09-14 at 7:19 p.m.

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