CatherineM Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 We're also having Cuban sandwiches (Tampa style) and guava bars. It is open house style from noon until midnight mass starts, although one widower from church shows up at 10am on holidays so he can get the good spot in front of the TV. We're going to be showing the Horatio Hornblower series this time over the holidays. Open to anyone who doesn't have anywhere else to go, or just wants to stop in for lunch or dinner on their way somewhere else. We get 2-3 dozen, thankfully not all at once. At least a dozen will be my husbands friends with schizophrenia, but some of them don't eat for fear I've poisoned the punch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rachael Posted December 8, 2008 Author Share Posted December 8, 2008 mmm. i tried guava jelly and fresh coagulated milk on crackers. that's pretty good. i kinda wanna meet your husband's friends. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatherineM Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 [quote name='rachael' post='1722460' date='Dec 8 2008, 10:51 AM']mmm. i tried guava jelly and fresh coagulated milk on crackers. that's pretty good. i kinda wanna meet your husband's friends.[/quote] It sometimes ends up being like a junior high dance with all his bachelor schizophrenic friends on one side and all my unmarried female friends from the church choir on the other side. He's got one friend who was in seminary when he got sick, and now spends his time going to mass 5-6 times a day. He goes to St. Al's at 7:30, hops on the #8 bus to St. Pat's by 9am, and then makes it to the Basilica for the noon mass. Eats lunch next door at the hospital cafeteria, and gets back on the bus for adoration at St. Andrew's, back to the Basilica for 5pm mass and then dinner, and then back to St. Andrew's which is near where he lives. He's got another friend who is also a devout Catholic, who works full time as an accountant, owns his own condo and everything. He does our taxes, and last year we had to mail our receipts to him, because he was afraid if he handed to him in person, we might try to poison him. I tell myself that if we get audited, at least we might be able to use the excuse that our tax accountant was crazy. Being married to someone with schizophrenia isn't something I'd recommend for everyone. At least Austin takes his medicine, many don't. When he has breakthrough symptoms and thinks the TV is talking to him, I just turn the TV off, and send him to bed. Most women wouldn't have given him a second glance. Their loss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rachael Posted December 9, 2008 Author Share Posted December 9, 2008 still want those plantains Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maximilianus Posted December 9, 2008 Share Posted December 9, 2008 (edited) What kind of fried platanos? Ripe (ewww) or unripe. See if you can find a Hispanic/Caribbean grocery store and look for Patanutres(plaintain chips). If your lucky the store will have a restaurant and possibly serve fried plaintains in many of it's forms. If you don't have a hispanic/caribbean store where you are at than I guess your out of luck. Edited December 9, 2008 by Maximilianus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rachael Posted December 9, 2008 Author Share Posted December 9, 2008 oh, i know a place that serves them, and i know where to buy them. i've just gotta wait until this week is over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maximilianus Posted December 9, 2008 Share Posted December 9, 2008 Cool. I cook them myself, usually in the form of tostones, in which you take the plaintain pieces, fry them until the outside gets hard, flatten the pieces, then fry them again until cooked. They're fantastic. I also use plaintains to make mofongo, in stews, or boil them with bananas(unripened) and viandas(batata, yuca, yautia, ñames...basically a bunch of roots and tubers). Mmmmm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rachael Posted December 9, 2008 Author Share Posted December 9, 2008 ok. can you help me then? what's the dish called when it's cooked with beef? i think the sauce in it is sorta creamy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maximilianus Posted December 9, 2008 Share Posted December 9, 2008 Sorry, I Don't know. Is that a Costa Rican thing? I'm Puerto Rican, many of the foods in Latin America are similar or exactly the same if within the same region(with different names of course), but I'm not familiar with what you describe. Sounds like the stuff you find around here known as Chicken fried steak. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rachael Posted December 9, 2008 Author Share Posted December 9, 2008 it sure wasn't chicken fried steak.... i just want to know the freaking recipe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DannyBoy Posted December 9, 2008 Share Posted December 9, 2008 [quote name='Paddington' post='1722350' date='Dec 8 2008, 11:33 AM']QDoba sounds really good right about now. [/quote] Would much rather have Chipotle! : ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lil Red Posted December 9, 2008 Share Posted December 9, 2008 +J.M.J.+ chocolate chip cookies!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HolyPhoenix Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 I could really go for some guac. It has been sounding very good to me all day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rachael Posted December 10, 2008 Author Share Posted December 10, 2008 [quote name='HolyPhoenix' post='1723667' date='Dec 9 2008, 10:24 PM']I could really go for some guac. It has been sounding very good to me all day.[/quote] fresh avocados i've been downing clementines like crazy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missionseeker Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 mmmm avocados! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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