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Oh! Papas a la huancaina, how I love them! Also causa. Potato yumminess.

What about pernil? It's an essential inclusion for Puerto Rican cookery!

I'm in Connecticut and there are basket loads of them at my local farm stand. Yummy.

My favorite thing to eat when I lived in Haiti (as a very small girl) was Soup Joumou. Okay, so I have no idea if that spelling is correct or not but there it is. It's a pumpkin soup that I've only had once since and the flavor sent me right back to my earliest memories. After speaking with a close Haitian friend a few weeks before the earthquake I discovered that it is considered a national dish, always eaten and celebrated on Haiti's independence day. After talking with my dear friend (who gave me a packet of seeds to grow the pumpkin in question) it sounds like tte closest equivalent is kabocha. I don't have a recipe but I'm sure a perusal of the internet will come up with something. I won't ask my friend, she has enough to worry about right now.

Now, about this controversy. Haiti is an incredibly impoverished nation, but it is rich with culture and food is an esssential part of that culture. I think it's great that people are thinking beyond the tragedy and Considering what it might be like there when not overwhelmed by suffering. It's humanizing. It's a way to make a connection with people.

1. Kitchen Shears
2. Microplane
3. Electric Kettle
4. Pyrex measuring cups
5. 8" Chef's knife
6. paring knife
7. digital scale
8. mixing bowls
9. fork
10. spoon

absolutely love them. Have to watch out for pinched finger in the casters but that is true of most things on our house.

Um, okay, I did actually read it before and here is a link:

http://www.ochef.com/165.htm

Chill, k?

Flambé does not actually cook off much alcohol at all. In order to really do damage to alcohol content in food it must be cooked uncovered at pretty high temp for over two hours. There's something about this somewhere on the web but I'm too lazy to look for it right now and try to post from my iPhone. Sorry!

Doesn't rum flavoring have all kinds of wired things in it?

This mousse sounds yummy.