Yesterday after all the conversation about cilantro — whether you love it or hate it and how that might well be pre-determined — I had an Aloha moment, a craving for cilantro.
For those of you who have not been to San Salvador, you would not know that near the pro-cathedral is a funky sports-restaurant called Aloha. It is within walking distance and when I lived at the cathedral during sabbatical I occasionally would take lunch there. My usual lunch was pollo a la plancha, grilled chicken, which came with pico de gallo and fries. So last night I made a good bowl of homemade salsa with lots of cilantro and roasted some potatoes to go with the chicken.
Definitely an Aloha moment!
Tonight before vestry a simple bowl of salsa will have to suffice.
[photo surprisingly does not have cilantro but that is because that particular bowl of salsa had ingredients that came only from my garden and the cilantro was past.]
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As a professed cilantro hater, I enjoyed that whole viral thread very much.
I read it and posted it on Wednesday morning. I left my office at noon to go to the Diocesan offices for a meeting, but to meet with a colleague first.
Cheryl works in the Pastoral Center and while we email and speak for work purposes all the time and we have lots of fun on Facebook, we had never met.
She told me that we would eat in her office and that she had made a great big salad for us. Yay!
As we sat down to eat I asked her if she had been on FB that day and she said no. I relayed the story of the cilantro thread and her face fell.
Apparently the salad that she had made us had cilantro in it!! I told her that I could take cilantro in small doses and if chopped finely. I did promise her that if it was not to my liking, I would let her know and would go grab something from the cafeteria.
It was fine, but I thought it was so funny and such a real-world-meets-facebook moment.
Glad you enjoyed your Aloha moment!!
Lee, apologies for horning in on this foodie thread. (BTW, count me among the cilantro lovers! In fact, this night I am enjoying an orzo salad with cilantro and many other things.)
I write to ask what you make of the election in IARCA. I read your HoBD note that "the Right Reverend Armando Guerra of Guatemala was elected Presiding Bishop of the Anglican Church of the Region of Central America."
I know Bishop Barahona has been a friend of TEC. Do you think Bishop Guerra will continue in a similar vein?
wv = ingatchu
To which the proper response would seem to be "gezuntheit."
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