M E N U Have a Mexican Dinner This May

Title:
M E N U Have a Mexican Dinner This May

Yield:
8 Servings

Categories:
Mexico,
About




Ingredients:




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 May 1: Labor Day


 


 May 2: Dia de la Santa Cruz, when crosses are erected and decorated with


 flowers. The people celebrate with fireworks and picnics, often a barbacoa,


 barbecue. Although, from its name, the day of the Holy Cross, it is


 ostensibly a Christian holiday, the celebration is of pre-Colombian origin.


 In the Mayan culture the cross symbolized the four corners of the earth,


 and the spring holiday celebrates rebirth. Today, the holiday unofficially


 honors construction workers, who were the ones to sustain the celebration


 by building makeshift crosses on the rooftops of unfinished churches during


 the last century.


 


 May 5 or Cinco de Mayo: anniversary of Battle of Puebla, at which the


 Mexican army defeated that of the French on May 5, 1862.


 


 May 15: the Feast of San Isidro, patron saint of grain, livestock and


 agriculture.


 


 MENU : **Sikil-p'ak with fried tortillas **Empanadas de San Cristobal de


 las Casas **Seviche estilo Acapulco **Coliflor en Aguacate **Costillas de


 Puerco a la Parilla **Tiras de Puerco con Cola **Rice **Flan


 


 Notes: The Monthly Food Column is presented as a service of COOK'SBOOKS and


 AMES BOOKS: column appeared each month in Behind The Times, the monthly


 newspaper of Orange County, Vermont 1997.


 


 >A KitPATh bust 98-Feb


 


 Recipe by: Marguerite Ames, Food Columnist 1997May Recipe by "Pillsbury


 Kitchens' Family Cookbook" 1979 edition


 Posted to MC-Recipe Digest by KitPATh 
on Feb 17,


 1998