Recipe: Budin de Pan: Nuyorican Style

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bel1e
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since 2006-07-24

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0 posted 2010-06-15 06:52 PM

Pre-heat oven, 475. Prepare yourself. This is devotion.

Sift flour once. Make your choice: you will do this thing.

Add 1/2 C sugar to separate the flour particles. Assess your tools:
cheekbones, dimples, wit.

Sift flour four times: bisAbuela, Abuela, Mai, and now you.

Beat egg whites and salt with flat wire whisk. Each stroke, a dissolution. Where you came from is not where you will go.

When foamy, add tartar. Keep beating. Learn your own strength, the cut of their bodies in yours. Master the fire.

Add remaining sugar. Believe in god.

Mix in flavorings. Tell the lies you recognize. Cap their bottles. Yell.

Sift 1/4 C flour over mixture. Do what you can with what they gave you.
Fold in lightly.

Repeat until nothing is left.

Turn into ungreased cake pan. What you have made of your life, is not entirely yours.

Cut through batter to remove bubbles. Learn truth. Learn knives.

Bake in a slow oven, one hour or so. Feel a curling inwards, an unexpected lightness of breath.

Cool in an inverted pan. Hallow yourself.

Robert E. Jordan
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since 2008-01-25

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1 posted 2010-06-15 07:58 PM

Yo dear Bel1e,

It's good to see back posting again. I liked your poem a lot.

Love Bobby

bel1e
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2 posted 2010-06-15 08:15 PM

Thanks so much, Bobby~*~

Earl Brinkman
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since 2010-03-03

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Osaka, Japan

3 posted 2010-06-15 08:54 PM

I may not understand the title but offering a recipe for life is aways useful. This is different and I love different.

bel1e
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4 posted 2010-06-16 08:02 AM

Thanks Earl~~

Budin de Pan is a traditional Spanish bread pudding...

Thanks for taking a moment out to read~

BluesSerenade
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since 2001-10-23

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By the Seaside

5 posted 2010-06-18 12:54 PM

Wow, wow, wow!!!

Neat poem, baby belle~

bel1e
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6 posted 2010-06-18 01:12 PM

Thanks so much, Blueee <3

Dark Stranger
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since 2001-03-19

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West Coast

7 posted 2010-06-18 03:05 PM

I would enjoy watching you handle the tools
and mixing the batter...

would turn the heat up too and close the windows..raise the room temp a bit more..

get some of that bad chanting going..

enjoyed your cook show darkdot

bel1e
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8 posted 2010-06-18 05:28 PM

*LOL* thanx for taking a peek in the kitchen, Dark <3

Alison

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since 2008-01-27

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Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy!

9 posted 2010-06-19 11:50 PM

Thought of writing a cookbook? I like your recipe - tryed it and scorched myself. I'm a little burnt, but still very sweet.

xoxoxo
A

Kaoru

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since 2003-06-07

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where the wild flowers grow

10 posted 2010-06-20 02:06 AM

I REALLY like this. It's right up my alley.

bel1e
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11 posted 2010-06-20 09:00 AM

hahaha~~ thanks for checking this out Alison!

bel1e
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12 posted 2010-06-20 09:01 AM

Thanks Kaoru !SSo glad you liked it~

wranx
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Moved from a shack to a barn

13 posted 2010-06-20 10:01 AM

I loved the very approachable "hook"
("hook", being that which has eluded me for quite some time)

Dunno what caused me to log on today, but happy I did.

Do I detect a newish voice? A bit of change in timbre or resonance?

Some people should never stop writing, you be one.

bel1e
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since 2006-07-24

Posts 1631

14 posted 2010-06-20 12:07 PM

hey my dear friend,

Thank you for the lavish praise~*~
I truly have not written anything new since the New Year...these poems you are reading here were written some time back...i just never got around to posting them on the Blue Pages...but they are certainly in a different vein...representative of an evolution in thought & emotion (at least i hope so)...I have not been moved to write in many many moons...just a lot going on...but have more recently felt that old itch

~~love ya'
XOXOXOXOXOXOX

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