I am alive and well, still living in Mexico and enjoying the adventure. I have been meaning to write and finally put fingers to keyboard! I fell into a large hole in our back yard and broke my right arm. Now that was an adventure ! Being a nurse my first thought, after I picked myself off the bodega floor, was that I could make a splint and never have to actually go to the local hospital. My husband was not home when I fell so I had to wait for his return to make the splint. With my verbal assistance he made a splint and I carefully placed the arm on the board and wrapped it with several tensors. What a sight it was but it worked and six weeks later I was good as new !!! The word cooking took on a whole new meaning !! My first thought, who was going to cook? Certainly not my esposo whose culinary skills are limited to "doing grapefruit well "!" We ate Mexican for six weeks...tacos, enchiladas, tostatos and refrieds !
My next challenge was to teach the neighbours maid how to make apple pie. We have an elderly, widowed gent next door who has a young Mexican women come in every day to prepare his meals and do housework. After lunch at our house one day he decided I should teach Paty to make apple pie. So the challenge was before me ! How difficult could it be, this women can make tortillas in a snap. I had to translate the recipe into Spanish and make sure I knew all the names of the utensils. Turns out most of the words I looked up were far too proper so I was taught the Mexican version. She was a quick learner and from apple pie we went on to chocolate cake ,lemon pie and yes Yorkshire pudding !!! I was armed with my English mother in laws recipe which never fails. She is probably the only Mexican maid in San Carlos that has Yorkshire pudding in her repertoire !!! We have become good friends and she yatters away to me in Spanish not realizing I am not exactly fluent yet ! She is not afraid to tackle any recipe and has brought me samples of carrot cake and sweet potato pie. She and her employer come to our house once or twice a month for comida and she watches carefully everything I do. She even wanted napkin rings and has made cloth napkins. It is an ongoing learning experience for both of us. It's her turn to teach me how to make tortillas.
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