What a sweet story, Joseph. Darn it! A reminder
that I have to put the stories down that I hear. I need to make time....
Funny. My parents would always make nopales en
ensalada--(cooked nopales with chopped raw onions, cilantro, tomatoes &
chiles serranos or jalapenos-- probably what your mom cooked for your dad or was
it different? I didn't learn about nopales with
chile and carne de puerco, until recently from a co-worker whose family was from
Chihuahua. When I asked my mom about this. She responded, that isn't
a dish from Chihuahua. We make it in Jalisco too, but you know how your
dad is about pork. He's not fond of pork, but makes the best
carnitas. Go figure...
Irma
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mailto:ranchos@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Joseph
Puentes
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ranchos@yahoogroups.comSubject: [ranchos] Olivia's "Nuestra Vida"
Project
easy, just start a few catagories like the ones I suggested and have
people send in their stories related to each in relation (somehow) to their
relatives who came from our target area. In the story below you have my mom who
was from El Paso and my dad born in Santa Paula, but the influence--my
grandmother-- was from Jalisco. .
for example my mom used to make
nopales in the plain style without chile sauteed after being boiled even though
from her childhood she liked the style of them being cooked in a chile sauce.
Why did she do that? Well because my grandmother who was born in Las Animas,
Santa Maria de Los Angeles, Jalisco, was a strict mother-in-law when it came to
the wifes of her beloved sons (anyone else ever hear of how much the mothers
loved their sons?) and though this marriage survived until death did part them
there were other marriages from my uncles that didn't because of the macho
domineering type of attitude the sons of my grandparents had about how they
should be cared for by their wives. In my marriage my wife doesn't cook for me.
. .she just cooks. And for that matter when I sometimes cook I don't cook for
her I just cook. but that wasn't the case in my parents lives. I think I said to
the group before that one day I caught my mom eating her nopales with chile not
many months after my dad died. And she was crying while she ate them. I asked
her why she was crying and she said that she was eating nopales the way she
liked them. I didn't understand and asked for an explanation. She said my father
liked them plain and for all the years she had been married to him she hadn't
eaten them like she liked them with chile because she knew he liked them plain.
Now as she was eating them her preferred way with chile it reminded her of his
death.
it was different customs and ideas and traditions that produced us
and Olivia taking the reins of a project like this is extremely important. I
don't know if you know folks or subsets of the Ranchos group personally but if
you could gather some oral history that would be great. Oral history especially
when its just stories of what happened during a time of youth are full of the
customs and traditions that influenced us today.
basically we would need
to take stories like above and put them into each catagory and upload them into
folders on the new site. No sense if we are going to "soon" be moving over to
the new site to build anything new on the Yahoo
site,
joseph
Olivia Jaurequi-Reyes wrote:
You're a great sales person Joseph. I'd be more than happy
to oversee this. I just have to figure out how and what I'm doing.
Olivia Jaurequi-Reyes
Rowland Heights, CA
Joseph
Puentes <makas@nc.rr.com> wrote:
