pasteles

PASTELES

FILLING:
2 pork butts, 15 lb. cubed3 stalks celery, chopped fine1 sm. can pimento, chopped fine1 bell pepper, chopped1 big onion, chopped fine2 bunches Chinese parsley, chopped fine3-4 cans pitted olives, drained7 cloves garlic, chopped fineSalt & pepper1 tbsp. cumin2 tbsp. paprika2 lg. hot red pepper, chopped fine4 cans tomato sauce, or more
Fry meat until brown. Add above ingredients. Cook for 1 hour on medium heat. Add 1/2 cup Achoite oil.
Achoite Oil: 2 cups Wesson oil. Cook Wesson oil until just about to boil; add achoite seeds. Lower heat. Cook for 3 minutes or until deep red color has been extracted. Remove from heat and cool. Strain through a sieve and place in a jar.
Masa: 1 bunch Chinese bananas (whole bunch). Peel bananas, put into pan of salt water. After bananas are peeled, grate bananas fine. (Looks like dough.) After all is grated, add salt to taste and aji. Pour achoite oil over bananas, then mix well until blended. Add more salt to grated bananas if needed.
Making of Pasteles: Banana leaf or ti leaves. String to tie. Take 12 x 12 inch banana leaf, oil it, then spread masa (banana mash), then filling (mentuta), spread about 2 x 4 inch wide. Then fold and tie. Boil in boiling water for 1 hour.

This is one of my all time favorite dishes-it is a meal to itself!!!

Ethan Xavier-Wyatt

Here are some pictures of the latest edition to the morales family...He was born one month premature-so please pray for him...

we thank God for such a wonderful blessing........

THANK YOU

Thanks for all your support and visits!!!

I will begin to blog again at the end of this month...

wanda is scheduled to deliver our baby boy this november-around thanksgiving-God's wonderful sense of humor!!! and I have a new job in which God has blessed me with-where truly my disablities is judged negatively in not hiring me: Hear that yorkville pantry and volunteers of america!!!

a just stand for life

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=64876

I came across this recent news item and felt i should pass it along to you all...me and my wife faced the same situation somewhat she took the test for down syndrome etc for expectant mothers-we both agreed if the results came back negative that we would take the stand like this brave lady did-to keep her down syndrome baby whose life is a blessing of God and because of this all life is sacred,has meaning and purpose... here is a quote from the article that caught my eye:

"We have faith that every baby is created for good purpose and has potential to make this world a better place"

In Memory of maria

My heart goes out to steve camp and his family-after they lost their daughter maria in a tragic accident-i have lost two babies to the Lord last year and this year came close this past monday to lose the little 12 week old in my wife's womb-all i can add ia to pray for them that God will provide the grace they all need to sail through thsi storm of grief and perhaps doubt.....

http://stevenjcamp.blogspot.com/

http://chapmanchannel.typepad.com/inmemoryofmaria/

Indiana Jones speculations and theories

http://movies.yahoo.com/mv/news/ap/20080516/121095996000.html

baby picture

Please pray for our little one who is in this picture 11 weeks old....

THANK YOU

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Gee i hope this movie is true for 2011:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458339/

Star wars clone wars cartoon network teaser

http://movies.yahoo.com/summer-movies/Star-Wars-Clone-Wars/1809991325/trailers/133/880

Una Oracion

SIN EMBARGO PECOPor Arthur Bennett - editor del libro "The Valley of Vision" publicado por Banner of Truth
PADRE ETERNO,
Eres bueno más allá de todo pensamiento,
Pero yo soy vil, detestable, miserable, ciego;
Mis labios están prestos a confesar, pero mi corazón es lento para sentir,
y mis caminos son renuentes a enmendar.
A ti traigo mi alma;
quebrántala, hiérela, inclínala, moldéala.
Desenmascara ante mí la deformidad del pecado,
para así aborrecerlo, odiarlo y huir a ti.
Mis facultades han sido un arma de revuelta en contra tuya;
como un rebelde, he dado mal uso a mi fuerza,
y he servido al repugnante adversario de tu reino.
Dame gracia para lamentar mi necia insensatez,
Concédeme conocer que el camino de los transgresores es duro,
que las sendas del mal son sendas de maldición,
que apartarse de ti es perder todo bien.
He visto la pureza y belleza de tu perfecta ley,
la felicidad de aquellos en cuyo corazón ésta reina,
la tranquila dignidad del andar al que nos llama,
y sin embargo, violo y menosprecio sus preceptos.
Tu Espíritu de amor lucha dentro de mí,
me trae advertencias de la Escritura,
habla por medio de providencias sorprendentes,
me atrae con gemidos secretos,
y sin embargo,
escojo voluntades y deseos
para mi propio daño,
le ofendo y contristo de manera impía,
y le provoco a abandonarme.
Lloro y lamento todos estos pecados, y por ellos pido perdón.
Obra en mí un arrepentimiento más profundo y duradero;
Dame la plenitud de un dolor piadoso que tiemble y tema,
y que también confíe y ame,
que sea siempre poderoso y siempre seguro;
Concede que a través de las lágrimas de arrepentimiento, yo pueda ver más claramente
el brillo y las glorias de la cruz de salvación.

Iglesia Biblica del Señor Jesucristo

http://www.ibsj.org/

Creation cares

http://www.creationcare.org/conference/snyder.php

super apostles

bv. not by might

Sancocho

Ingredients:1 2-lb. frying chicken, cut into pieces3 lbs. fresh pork chops, cut into pieces4 tablespoons oil3 green plantains1 lb mapueyl lb. ñamel lb. potatoes 1/2 lb. white yautía1/2 lb. yellow yautía1/2 lb. auyama3 ears corn, halved1 green pepper, chopped1 large onion, sliced3 sprigs cilantrico3 coriander (cilantro) leaves1/2 teaspoon oregano3 cloves garlic, crushed1/4 teaspoon ground all-spice2 tablespoons vinegar*
Preparation:Marinate the meat for two hours in all the ingredients in the second section (from green pepper on). In a large kettle, saute meat in the oil. Peel and dice the other vegetables. Stir with the meat. Add water to cover. Cook until broth thickens. Season to taste.Unavailable vegetables may be substituted with those that are available.Serve from the cooking kettle. Spoon two spoons of cooked rice on top of each bowl of stew. Serves 8-10. (Allow 1/2 lb. meat per person).Do not use ham or smoked pork.*For vinegar, Dominicans use the squeezed juice from the naranja agria (an orange with pocked surface) or agrio (juice from the naranja agria poured over marble-sized onions, green pepper, and garlic which sets for a week or so.)

Happy Mother's Day

Proverbios 6:20-22 \ Proverbs 6:20-22
La Biblia de las Américas (LBLA)
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Advertencia contra el adulterio 20Hijo mío, guarda el mandamiento de tu padre, y no abandones la enseñanza de tu madre;
21átalos de continuo en tu corazón, enlázalos a tu cuello.
22Cuando andes, te guiarán; cuando duermas, velarán por ti; y al despertarte, hablarán contigo.

English Standard Version (ESV)
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Warnings Against Adultery 20(A) My son, keep your father’s commandment, and forsake not your mother’s teaching.21(B) Bind them on your heart always; (C) tie them around your neck.22(D) When you walk, they[a] will lead you; (E) when you lie down, they will watch over you; and when you awake, they will talk with you.

Here are some resources on Mother's day:

sermons:

audio: Hannah: A Woman of Grace - Pt. 1 http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.aspSID=5110393631

audio: The Hope of God-Fearing Mothers

http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=51306214911

audio: Motherhood vs. Lady MacBeth

http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=5100420521

audio: Rendering Mothers Their Due

http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=51506183657

video: A Message For Mothers

http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=518079507

Text:
A WOMAN After God's Own Heart = Women and Wives God Will Bless

http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=221077136

Audio: marriage,motherhood and homemaking series

http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?sid=4190394117

SPANISH****:

La Madre Cristiana - The Christian Mother

audio: http://www.sermonaudio.com/search.asp?keyword=madre

over the hedge

God has two hedges(Matthew Mead, "The Power of Gracein Weaning the Heart from the World")
God is never better to us—than when the creature is most bitter to us!Thus God dealt with Israel, "She said, 'I will go after my lovers, who give me my food and my water, my wool and my linen, my oil and my drink.' Therefore I will hedge up her path with thorns; I will wall her in—so that she cannot find her way. She will chase after her lovers but not catch them; she will look for them but not find them. Then she will say, 'I will go back to my husband as at first, for then I was better off than now.'" Hosea 2:6-8. God has two hedges which the Scripture takes notice of:1. The hedge of his protection, which you read of Job 1:10, "Haven't You placed a hedge around him, his household, and everything he owns?"2. The hedge of affliction, which you read of here: "I will hedge up her path with thorns."Now the Lord make use of both these hedges:The hedge of protection—is to keep His people from danger.The hedge of affliction—is to stop His people from wandering.The hedge of protection—is to keep them in God's way.The hedge of affliction—is to keep them out of sin's way.The hedge of protection—is to keep them from suffering.The hedge of affliction—is to keep then from sinning, and to put them upon returning to God.So it was with Israel here—when God had hedged up her way, that she could not find her paths, nor overtake her lovers—then she cries out, "I will go back to my husband as at first, for then I was better off than now!"It is a great mercy for God to wean a soul from the world; for it never suffers greater—than when it forsakes God to live upon the creature! "Those who cling to lying vanities—turn their backs on all God's mercies!" Jonah 2:8. It is forsaking the living fountain—to quench our thirst from a broken cistern! Jeremiah 2:13.When the Lord weans a soul from the world—He embitters the world to the soul; either by some affliction, or by some disappointment in the creature—which makes the soul look out for the more pure and lasting satisfactions, which are in Christ.
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Mofongo

This is one us puerto ricans love to eat:

PUERTO RICAN-STYLE MOFONGO
· 3 green plantains · 1 tablespoon salt dissolved in 4 cups water · 8 ounce lean bacon(you can substitute sizzlelean) · 2 cloves garlic · Vegetable oil, for deep fat frying · 1 teaspoon chopped hot pepper · 1 tablespoon corn or safflower oil · 1 teaspoon salt · ½ teaspoon black pepper
Peel plantains and cut vertically into 1-inch thick slices. Soak slices for 20 minutes in salted water. Meanwhile, fry bacon until crisp, then crumble and set aside. (Traditionally, mofongo is made with pork cracklings, also known as crisp fried pork skin. Bacon is a contemporary twist. For less fat, lean chopped ham can also be substituted.) Drain plantain slices well. Deep fry plantain until tender, yet not browned. Drain on paper towels. Mash and mix together the garlic cloves, hot pepper, oil, salt and pepper. Blend half of the fried plantain slices with half of the crumbled bacon and half of the garlic mixture; mix thoroughly. Roll mixture into 2-inch balls. Repeat with the remaining ingredients. Serve hot with seasoned rice.

buffalo family and the lion

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU8DDYz68kM

Quotables worship and more

http://worr.wordpress.com/