The Police: De do do do

I don' think I've ever known the lyrics to this song. Pretty cool is all the words I have to say. Since less is sometimes more!

Dont think me unkind
Words are hard to find
The only cheques Ive left unsigned
From the banks of chaos in my mind
And when their eloquence escapes me
Their logic ties me up and rapes me

De do do do, de da da da
Is all I want to say to you
De do do do, de da da da
Their innocence will pull me through
De do do do, de da da da
Is all I want to say to you
De do do do, de da da da
Theyre meaningless and all thats true

Poets, priests and poiticians
Have words to thank for their positions
Words that scream for your submission
And no ones jamming their transmission
cos when their eloquence escapes you
Their logic ties you up and rapes you

De do do do, de da da da
Is all I want to say to you
De do do do, de da da da
Their innocence will pull me through
De do do do, de da da da
Is all I want to say to you
De do do do, de da da da
Theyre meaningless and all thats true

Fried Chicken Festival

Where to begin? This weekend began slow and picked up speed only to slow down again and at first I was full of anxiety because I didn't have any "alone" time, which if you know me well enough, you know it sketches me out. But then I just let it go because my girls were over, Manolo, my new Brazilian exchange student settled in and Twon was around to hang out with us too! I won't expound on every minute detail of our gathering, but I must linger on the note of food. We are a communal "family" so to speak. Cooking and eating are highly ritualistic for us. I mean, I think it should be for all of humanity, given that we all have to eat and we all have to derive nutritional value from the plants and animals (or not if you're vegetarian) that are naturally (or not) found on this earth. Yea, I took it a little deep there. But it's true. With that in mind......we had a FRIED CHICKEN FESTIVAL!!!! Ok, Moo and Carmen spent the night Saturday and Sunday. Sunday Carmen planted the fried chicken seed. And off we went with it. Final product. Fried chicken, tacos with ^*$#) meat (Twon I forgot the name of the meat you bought, please remind me.) fresh onions, tomatoes, cilantro for the tacos....and the infamous Gallo Pinto. I'm sorry I only have two photos and they don't do the finished product much justice but here's the pics. And the recipe for Gallo Pinto, the Costa Rican rice and beans dish. Mmmmm Mmmmmm yummy!


Here is the marvelous Gallo Pinto recipe and pictures.....or at least the one I used. Topped it with some Lizano sauce and voila. Say you love me!

1 lb Black beans. Fresh are best but canned black beans just as good!
8-10 sprigs cilantro fresh
1 small or medium onion
½ small red or yellow sweet pepper (optional) (I used a reddening green pepper!)
3 cups (700 ml) chicken broth or water
2 cups (350 ml) white rice
½ teaspoon (2.5 ml) salt
1 Tablespoon (15 ml) vegetable oil
1-3 Tablespoon oil to fry the Gallo Pinto


Chop cilantro, onion, and sweet pepper very fine.

Add 1 Tablespoon oil to a large pan and sauté the dry rice for 2 minutes over medium high flame then add the chopped onion, sweet pepper and cilantro and sauté another 2 minutes. Add water or chicken broth, bring to a boil, cover and reduce heat to simmer until rice is tender (20-35 minutes). This is also the recipe for Tico rice used in other favorites like tamales.

Some people add a tablespoon or so of salsa Lizano to the beans while they're cooking. (I did!)

ENJOY!