[Sca-cooks] Cinco de Mayo

[Marilyn Traber]

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Thanks for the great suggestions and websites, I have chosen the following
recipes for putting into the handout [trying for home cooking stuff, rather
than restaurant stuff]

Albondigas soup [remember discussing it last year or thereabouts on list
;-)]sort of the mexican version of italian wedding soup - meatballs and
rice.

Ensalada de Espinacas - spinach salad. It uses yoghurt and oil seasoned with
salt and pepper for the dressing, but I figure that works on the whole.

Spicy black bean cakes - sort of refritos made into small pancakes or scones
and fried. Look great and something for kids to help with - making black
bean 'mud pies' ;-)

Empanadas - meat pasties. The recipie I picked uses [ugh] refrigerator case
biscuits as the dough, but that way people will be more inclined to actually
give it a try..

Natilla - a cooked vanilla pudding decorated traditionally with raisins, but
can also use other fresh adn dried fruits and nuts. I am going to suggest
that if they don't want to actually cook, they can use the goya brand
instant flan. Not bad, but I make a much better one myself...

for decorating ideas, the spiffy and easy to make tissue paper flowers, and
directions for papier-mache pinatas for the more adventurous.

3 different cd collections for music, gleaned off amazon.com

I am thinking of getting funding from the office to go ahead and make enough
of the suggested menu for the office. There are a total of 15 of us in this
office [they moved me from the boiler room in cheshire to the marketing
center in New london - 35 miles closer and much smaller.]

Well, the booklet will be my contribution to the committee in general, they
will ave to come up with games and contests. I have done teh 'hard' work!
margali
I can foreward people the doc file of the finished booklet - it has a cute
color jpg for the front cover, and a cheesy image of a star shaped pinata
for the article on teh pinata. I haven't been able to find illustrated
images of the paper flowers.

Now why couldn't they do the day of the dead? I want to make up those neat
candy skulls!
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