GOAT FRICASSEE
Puerto Rican
Style
(A Mary Deal Special)
(A Mary Deal Special)
SOFRITO
(Sauce):
In
a BLENDER:
10-15
Garlic cloves
A
bunch of Cilantro
4-5
sweet Pimientos (also known as
Hungarian
or Cuban peppers. They
are
sweet peppers.) If pimentos
aren’t
available, use Green Bell
Peppers
20-30
Small sweet peppers
Liquefy
all the ABOVE ingredients.
Capers
Salad
Olives
1
14 oz. Can Tomato Sauce
Salt
Potatoes,
quartered
For
2 Pounds of Meat:
(Goat
meat should be washed with or soaked in lime juice before cooking to remove the
wild odor.)
In
a thick bottom pot, pour olive oil to cover the bottom. Heat and add 4-5
tablespoons of the Sofrito. Cook over medium heat for about 10 minutes.
Add
capers and salad olives in quantities you desire. Add 1 can of tomato sauce.
Salt to taste.
Add
the meat. Cook until half tender. Add potatoes. Cook until the stew starts to
thicken and potatoes and meat are well done. Serve with rice.
If
four pounds of meat are cooked, double the recipe.
Refrigerate
or freeze any remaining SOFRITO for future use.
Legacy of the Tropics - Review by Martha A. Cheves, Author of
Stir, Laugh, Repeat; Think With Your Taste Buds; A Book and A Dish
Promises:
“Why don't you sleep in our house, Mama,” Pablo asked. “So we can
be a family, like my friend Jose next door. His mama and papi live together. A
renter lives in their cottage.”
Pablo, son of Rico Rey and soon to be step-son of Ciara Malloy,
doesn't quite understand why the two people he loves most in the whole world
aren't married and living together. Neither Pablo nor Ciara knows the secret
that Rico holds that keeps them apart. Rico has promised that soon, they will
be a complete family but first he has promised to take them on a vacation that
will have them sailing the seas near their home east of Puerto Rico. All goes
well, until a sudden freak storm blows in, sinking their ketch and leaving them
struggling for their lives.
Adrift:
“People die at Ke'e Beach, Lillian,” he said. “Why do you keep
going back there?” She forced herself to remain quiet a moment longer than
usual to quell an urge to put Glen in his place. “Careless people,” she said,
enunciating each word, “die at all beaches.”
Lillian Avery is an underwater photographer who has made her home
on the island of Kauai in Hawaii. She has her goal set to take pictures of
every fish living in the beautiful waters around her island but became
distracted by the docile green sea turtles that seemed to take a liking to her,
nipping at her bathing suit. Her friend Glen tags along with her and all goes
well until a vicious rip current pulls them both well out to sea till losing
sight of land. Will Glen’s neuroses and actual fear of water cause their
drowning deaths as he loses control of his emotions?
Reunion:
“Hurricane season's almost over,” Ciara said. Rain pelted down
outside the window. “Most likely that storm south of us will die out, don't you
think?”
“All the others have this year,” Lilly said. “But every storm is
different.”
This tropical storm had more to offer than either could foresee.
Ciara and Lillian had lived next door to each other years earlier
in Puerto Rico but had never met. Ciara had always wanted to meet the lady next
door who took much sought-after underwater pictures. Lilly had always wanted to
meet the lady next door who wrote darling children books. It never came to be
until some years later when Ciara moved to Hawaii with her grandson and bought
the house next door to Lilly. Even though the two ladies had never met, they
found they had a lot of history to share as they caught each other up on their
lives.
Life in the tropics seems to be going great until the hurricane
hits their island. Will these two ladies, who have lived through so much
already, be able to ride out yet another storm in their lives? Or will this be
the end of a friendship or even their lives which seem to have come full cycle?
Will Lilly finally learn Rico’s secret that even Ciara has kept hidden all
these years?
This book has taken me to Puerto Rico and Hawaii, two places I've
never been but now feel like I've been there many times. It has taken me under
the waters watching not only the fish but the beautiful sea turtles. It has
taken me through two storms that I hope and pray I'll never have to live
through in real life. Even though I've experienced all of these through
reading, it still feels like it has all been real. A great book that gives you
three stories, or novellas, that combine to make one incredible adventure for
these ladies, a true Legacy of the Tropics.