Beautiful Feet: July 21, 2015

Pupusas! Yeah, I can cook pupusas now! I guess you have to visit El Salvador to appreciate this. As you know, many ladies have be a great help to us here. Today, Bessy, her mother Marta, and her mother-in-law, Isabela, came at 9:00 to help me learn how to cook pupusas. First we went to the market to get a few ingredients. Then, came the chopping. I have never seen three ladies work so efficiently. I tried to keep up writing down directions, but it was hard to keep up. We decided on four kinds, azote, chicken with cheese, sausage with frijoles and cheese, and the untraditional bacon and cheese. (Although we have heard rumors that bacon and cheese pupusas have made an appearance in El Salvador.) Then, we also make the cabbage and carrot topping. This is almost like slaw, but it is not sweet at all. Finally, we made the cooked tomato and onion salsa from scratch. Yummy! Marta was cooking lunch for the coffee workers, so we were trying to finish about 11 to 11:30. We only had my griddle to work with, but it did the trick. I would mention that they usually buy a huge bag of corn, soak it and cook it. That takes about three days. Then, they take it to the mill and grind it to make the dough. For me, since I want to be able to cook them in the States, I just used corn flour. I am sure that was a little quicker. Anyway, Marta and Bessy had to leave out early, but we stayed on and cooked until the dough was all gone. Then, we had a feast of pupusas. Wow, they were great! The only foreboding I had was the fact that when I try them from scratch, I will only have one of me instead of four. I am indebting to these ladies for their help. After lunch we rested a little bit and then at 4, Ricardo and Joli came over with Linda. Ricardo and Joli proposed a plan for teaching women throughout El Salvador. It is called Deborah’s Ministry. Within the overall program there will be projects that will be conducted and the first will be Project Priscilla. Joli will be implementing the program, starting this week and will be visiting Santa Telca. She asked Linda and me to help in the program. It sounded exciting, but like a lot of work. Since our Saturday’s are full, she said that we could aim for a week day on some of the gatherings. We are in prayer about this; I had mentioned this idea to Dwaine one time and this was the theme of my ladies’ class last year when our group came. We will try to have them over again soon to get more details. Afterwards, we went to Zoila's for Bible study. There was a good turnout and Carlos led a great lesson.