Name: Victoria Lopez

Teacher: Mr. Gains

        There's nothing like a good plate of pozole. That food is very "delicioso". That means delicious. Come and join me at this party, you will be able to taste, smell and look at this amazing food.

        Close your eyes and imagine a beautiful Saturday morning. I woke up to make the invitations for the party at my house. I needed to invite the family of my mom and my dad. While I made the invitations, they made the pozole and my sister slept.  When I finished the invitations I told my parents if I could help with the pozole. They said, "okay". The more people we have the sooner we will finish.

        It's no secret that making pozole is very easy. These are the ingredients for the pozole. 1 big chicken, salt, 4 small pieces of garlic, 1/3 of onion, corn pazdero, 6 chilies cascabel without seeds, 2 large garlic, 1 piece of cumin, ½ pound of radish in small pieces, 1 whole lettuce, 3 chilies and nacho chips. The first step is in a pot put the chicken to boil with the salt, 4 small garlic and 1/3 onion for 40 minutes. The when the chicken is soft and cooked you grab it to cut it into little strips when you cit it put it back inside the pot. The second step is the preparation for the red mix. Boil the 6 chilies cascabel till their soft and then put them in the blender with the 2 big garlic and a little pinch of cumin. Then strain the mix when it comes out and he peels of the chilies stay. The third step is put the mix with the corn pozolera then boil it 10 minutes so the soup could take the color red. Last serve pozole in a big bowl. Put radish, lettuce, lime, chili and nacho chips if you like.

        Interestingly enough it was party time. All the persons started to come really fast. My family and I were serving the pozole. All the people started to say "fantastic, incredible, delicioso and fascinante". So I walked to the kitchen to get some pozole. They were right. The pozole was delicious. I visualized it. It was red with corn and chicken. It tasted a bit spicy with lime and it swelled like chili. No wonder everyone liked it. Then I went outside, one of my friends told me, "How did this food started as a tradition in your family?" I told her that my great-great-great grandma passed the recipe to her daughter and son on, till my grandma passed it to my mom. This recipe has been cooked more than 10n years.

        No one will argue that pozole is very outstanding food. Everyone has their own tradition but mine's is one of the bests. From making invitations and the pozole I enjoyed it.