Posted in Honduras, Roots, Travel on August 18, 2007 | 3 Comments »
The other day my cousin, my little girl and I made the twenty-minute trip to Omoa, the little village where the Fort of San Fernando de Omoa is located. The sky was blue and the mountains green, and they were more beautiful than I remembered.
From the fort we went for a walk on the beach…
and had a delicious [...]
Posted in Baking, Favorite things, Food, Recipes, tagged Baking, cakes on August 10, 2007 | 3 Comments »
This is my mother’s recipe for this delicious cake. The name translates to Three Milks Cake, because the sponge is soaked with a sweet, creamy syrup made with three kinds of milk.
The cake:
2 cups sugar
2 cups cake flour, sifted
9 eggs, separated
1/2 cup whole milk
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Beat the sugar and the egg yolks, until [...]
Posted in About me, Children, Culture, Life, Memories, Parenting on August 6, 2007 | 3 Comments »
When I was a little girl, I thought my skin was white. For a time my mental image of myself had fair skin like my mother’s. In reality, I have my father’s brown, trigueña skin.
It’s very funny that people who are not White are very particular about the different shades of dark. In Pakistan being ‘fair’ [...]
