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Just one more tidbit on the Nopales recipes.  Yes the nopal salad with queso fresco sounds really good, although in our family we never make it that way.  We'll have to try them that way.  By the way try to use the youngest and most tender PENCAS.  A "penca" is what you call an individual stem/leaf/pad.  See illustration.  That's the top one.  The old pencas are too tough, stringy, and inedible.  A nopal refers to the entire living organism.

 

Surprisingly, nopales are very versatile.  One way is the way every one has suggested.  Cleaning the pencas (dethorning them), chopping into cubes, and boiling with onions and cilantro.  Once their done, you drain the water and can be

I love it. Just get us Mexicans to talk about our foods and culture and

Hola Carrillo researchers:

My great-grandmother was Francisca Carrillo who was
born in Hujecar in 1843.  She married Casmiro Muro in
1863 (Santa Maria).  Francisca had 15 children that we
know of and we know that 4 came to the US.  I know
very little about the Carrillo's going forward,
however I have traced 3 generations back;  Francisca's
father was Pedro Nolasco Carrillo born 1812 in
Colotlan; m. to Tranquilana Sanchez; Pedro's father
was Felipe Carrillo m. to Mariana de Casas; Felipe
Carrillo's father was Andres Carrillo m. to Maria
Estefana Martinez.  So this puts me in the late 1770's
with the Carrillo's.

My Francisca did make it to the states, my grandfather
Casmiro died in 1911; I find Francisca in the 1930
census in CA living in LA county with her son Juan. 
She lived to be about 94 years old and I'm told she
died in Delicias, Chiuahua.  I've looked at films for
the city from 1932-1938 and found nothing.  So there
is some family there in Chiuahua, I just don't know
who yet or

I found a webpage that identifies some distinct dental characteristics
of the Native American. Its kind of unclear as to if this is only for
Native Americans found in the US or if it reaches into Mexico. There is
enough information to contact someone at Arizona State University to
find out more.

If anyone is interested contact me off list and I'll forward you the
material.

joseph

Jonathan,

Thanks for sending the group these interesting articles.  My 
favorite was "Indigenous Mexico: A Lost Connection" and I recommend 
everyone read that one.  Yes, it's a trip for many of us to look in 
the mirror every morning, and the more one becomes engrossed in 
genealogy, the more one becomes aware of the physical 
characteristics the Spanish, Indians, and blacks left us.

Alice


--- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, "Jonathan Walker"  
wrote:
> Here is the link, to some interesting articles, written by John P. 
Schmal and Donna S. Morales, about Mexican history:
> http://www.houstonculture.org/mexico/schmal.html
> 
> Thanks,
> Jonathan 
> 
> Experienced Hispanic Genealogist - More Info:
> http://members.pcu.net/Hispanic_Genealogy/
> or http://hispanicgenealogy.4t.com

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