Mexican Holiday foods – Mona Alvarado Frazier

Family, Latino Family Traditions, Lent, Mexican Cooking, Mexican Holiday foods, Mexican Vegan food, Roman Catholics

When We were Catholic-Lent

February 22, 2012July 29, 2013 Mona Alvarado Frazier

by J. CobbMy mother is Roman Catholic. She baptized and raised us as such. We attended Catholic schools from first to twelfth grade. Everything you can imagine in the 1960's-70's era of Catholicism, in our Latino home, we had it: Virgen of Guadalupe, St. Jude, and the Sacred Heart of Jesus statues. We had an altar under… Continue reading When We were Catholic-Lent

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Warning: Tamale Overload

December 27, 2011 Mona Alvarado Frazier

Have you ever been so over-saturated with a food that you can no longer bear to look at it anymore? That's the way I feel about tamales, today. I had the same feeling after working the graveyard shift sorting strawberries at a packing house. The plump red fragrant berries I sorted through on the conveyor… Continue reading Warning: Tamale Overload

Champurrado, Christmas Traditions, Holiday Traditions, Latino Family Traditions, Mexican Holiday foods, Tamales

What are your Holiday Traditions?

December 16, 2011 Mona Alvarado Frazier

"It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before.'What if Christmas,' he thought, 'doesn't come from a store?' What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more?" – Dr. SeussIn this season of… Continue reading What are your Holiday Traditions?