Photos please!
I've been reading all the progress at the HogOnIce.com, go there folks that's incredibly good food!!!!!!!

How about a leg shaving contest?

Keep an eye on that gringo, he was trying to make tamales with harina de maiz seca! :-)

Roberto

Gluttony is inherently an anti-communist act. Point the fans towards the water and maybe the smell will attract some more folks to Miami.

Que Masoquistas te has puesto!! Postalita!!
Haciendole la boca agua a todo el mundo con tu puerquito.
What's about a pork for all your Babalu fellow bloggers? I want to hear a GOOD EXCUSE! Dimelo cantando.... Ok, ok, cojelo suave.. Te estoy chibando. Enjoy your pork... Echale agua pa'que cresca..

Venezuela: toothless reporters ignore Chavez murders of four students

Four students were murdered by Chavez police about four days ago. Yet this news seems almost unreported in the US (and I have searched for it) the only source carrying it is EL Nuevo Herald (Miami). Perhaps this is not news since these killings are only a few of the over 3,000 police killing done during the Chavez era. Meanwhile, one can expect, given Chavez's propensities for this kind of bloody coverup, that the two surviving and wounded students will somehow die so they cannot testify.

Sorry for posting here but I am a little upset at this kind of thing.

larry

TO My fellow bloggers have a happy, free and independent fourth of July.
Jorge

Larry,

http://www.publiuspundit.com is commenting on the issue and Today's demostration.

Glad to see you're back up to speed doing the usual ManCamp routine. Have a good time!!

This is a Cuban (and politically incorrect named) dessert that I would serve to my Fourth of July guests, inspired by the postings under Vulgar Cubanism. That's to have cojones cuadrados!

Mojon de Negro o Coquito Quemado

Grate some coconut flesh in fine shreds (of one or two coconuts)
Combine it with a heavy brown sugar syrup, to make a workable mass. Reserve some of the syrup aside, for final coating.
Add some dark rum to the mixture, to taste. If you prefer, add some vanilla beans to the mass as well.

Cook on a pan, previously coated with some butter for a few minutes, until the color gets to a golden brown. Make small balls and set them aside to cool on a baking sheet, which should be buttered to easily take them off without the balls crumbling under pressure.

Once they are cool, pour the reserved syrup over the balls, and proceed to darken them in the oven (broiler function on). It can also be done with a chef torch, method that I prefer. Let them cool again and serve.

And I dug into old family notes... Always inspired by the very same posting and I found a version of Chino con piojos! This is a typical sweet made by sugar cane workers, one that I am not sure that still survives in Cuba. Without the seeds, it's called melcocha, plain and simply.

Chino con piojos

Two cups of molasses
The white of one egg
Juice of a lemon
One cup of white sugar

Mix all the ingredients with water and cook until it becomes a somewhat dense syrup, let it cool. Twist it into corkscrew bars and sprinkle with toasted sesame seeds.

Now I'm getting hungry. These sound yummy.

"A pig, a pig! My kingdom for a Cuban roast pig!"

Apologies to The Bard. Happy 4th to all of you in the great Babalu fraternity. Don't forget to thank God and Uncle Sam for all we have, and where we are, and whose sacrifices made it all possible.