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Damnit Val - I don't take my lunch for another two hours. Thanks a lot! LOL

Churros!

You're not evil, Val, just bad. Showing the hot chocolate with it, now that would be evil.

HAHA you didnt get me :P Churros are actually pretty popular here in Brasil. Theres a guy who passes by the stadium (my office is in the stadium) almost every day with a little cart. There are THREE churro carts I pass on my way home. And they come with two fillings, chocolate and dulce leche (doce leite) they are pretty big too, and cheap.

Daniel -
That's amazing! But it just doesn't exist in my white-bread world in The O.C.
So I am forced to "resolver." [sigh]

Two weeks ago I was shocked to find actual "churro" bread mix at a local .... Walmart, of all places. I bought a box. When the 100 degree weather disappears, I'll give it a shot. Yummy yummy ..... one of my creature comforts and fortunately, we have them here too! People sell them in carritos out on the street - with the hot dogs, the sausages, etc.

Mmmm..... goooood. Thanks

Ah, I see yet another excuse to hit Fiesta come tomorrow's payday. (Fiesta being a Hispanic grocery chain with the best international section in the city, no matter which Texas city you are in)

Not like I need a whole lot of excuses. Anybody who likes any ethnic food of almost any kind can find it at Fiesta---including European, African, and Asian, as well as all of the Americas.

Don’t want to spoil your party guys. But I am almost sure that old fashioned Cuban churros are made with “yuca” or have some of it in the dough. No one here knows how to make them like that?

Vic,

You are correct. The Cuban churros are made with yuca. I suspect, tho, that yuca might be hard to come by in California.

Daniel:

The dulce de leche is inside the churro like the jelly inside a doughnut? Coño que rico! Please let me know if it is. Since I'm a pastry chef maybe I can try to make them.

Getting yuca in California is easy if you live in LA. Marta's in OC, don't know about that.

Jewbana
yes just like jelly in the donut. They stick the dough inside a "press", just like the play-doh presser, it comes out with an empty space in the middle. After its fried up, they take it out and fill it up with the filling using an "injector" type machine. During the 'festival de inverno' (winter-fest) and 'festival gastronomica' (food fest) they have a bunch of different fillings, strawberry, maracuja (passion fruit) guanabana (the name is different here but for the love of God it just escaped me), a custard like filling, pineapple, they even have a "rum ball" filling.

Jewbana
YES, like a jelly donut!!! The stick the dough inside a presser, like the playdoh presser, it comes out starshaped, like a regular churro, but a bit longer and thicker, with an empty cavity in the middle. When it is done frying, they use an injector to put in the filling. Year round you can get dulce leche or chocolate. During 'Festival de Inverno' (Winter-Fest) or 'Festival Gastronomica' (Food-Fest) you can get Guanabana (the name is different here, but I just forgot it), Straberry, Pinapple, Custard, even a Rum Ball type flavor. The filling is a gooey almost jelly like consistentcy.

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