K.Esquivel-LWFC

"I've never needed a man for anything; all by
myself, I've done all
right with my ranch and my daughters. Men
aren't that important in
this life, Father"-she said emphatically-"nor is
the revolution as
dangerous as you make it out! It's worse to
have chiles with no water
around!"
"Well, that is true!" he replied laughing. "Ah,
dona Elena, always so
clever. And tell me, have you thought about
where Pedro will work in
San Antonio?"
"He can start as an accountant in my
cousin's company; he wouldn't have
any problem, his English is perfect."
Those words echoed like cannons inside
Tita's head.
l She couldn't let it happen. They couldn't
take the child away from
her now. She had to keep that from ever
happening.
Meanwhile, Mama Elena had managed to
ruin the party for her.
The first party in her life that she had
enjoyed.
TO BE CONTINUED Next month's recipe.
Northern-tyler Chorizo CHAPTER FIVE MAY.
Northern -dlyle Chorizo INGREDIENTS: 8
kilo6 pork join 2 kilo4 pork hea
or crap 1 kilo chili anchoo' 60 aranu cumin
6Oyranu oregano 30 yranu
pepper 6yranu cloy 2 clio garlic 2 lite, apple
vinegar 1/4 kilo alt
PREPARATION Heat the vinegar and add
the chiles after removing the
seeds. When the mixture comes to a boil,
remove the pan from the heat
and put a lid on it, so that the chiles soften.
Chencha set the cover on the pan and ran to
the kitchen garden to help
Tita look for worms. Mama Elena kept
coming into the kitchen to
supervise the preparation of the sausage and
the preparations for her
bath, and they were behind on both. Ever
since Pedro, Rosaura, and
Roberto had gone to live in San Antonio, Tita
had lost all interest in
life, except for her interest in feeding worms
to a helpless pigeon.
Apart from that, the house could fall down
and it wouldn't have
mattered to her.
Chencha didn't even want to think about
what would happen if Mama Elena
came in and found that Tita wasn't helping
make the sausage.
They had decided to make the sausage
because it's one of the best ways
to use the meat from a pig economically and
get food that both tastes
good and keeps well, without risk of spoiling.
They had also prepared
a lot of salt pork, barn, bacon, and lard.
They had to get every
possible use from this pig, one of the few
animals that had survived
the visit the revolutionary army had made to
the ranch a few days
before.
When the rebels arrived, only Mama Elena,
Tita, Chencha, and two
farmhands, Rosalio and Guadalupe, were at
the ranch. Nicholas, the
manager, had not yet come back with the
cattle he had been forced to go