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Guantanamera:
The popular cuban song "Guantanamera" is very famous
worldwide, but only few people know that its lyric mostly comes
from the following poem, by José Martì, loved and popular in
Cuba.
Song and poem are wonderful, even more if we think that
cultivating Havaneses we find white roses and other colors too.
UNA POESÍA
DEDICADA
AL BICHÓN HABANERO
José Martí : "Rosa
blanca".
Cultívo una rosa blanca
en Julio come en Enero
para el amigo sincero
que me da su mano franca
y para el cruel que me arranca
el corazon con que vivo
cardos ni ortigas cultivo
cultivo una rosa blanca.
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A POEM DEDICATED
TO THE HAVANESE BICHON
José Martí : "White rose".
I cultivate a white rose
in July as well as in January
for the true friend
who gives me his frank hand
and for the cruel ones who rips
the heart that I live with
neither thistles nor nettles I
cultivate
I cultivate a white rose.
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GUANTANAMERA
Cruz Celia
Guantanamera, guajira Guantanamera
Guantanamera, guajira Guantanamera
Yo soy un hombre sincero de donde crece la palma
Yo soy un hombre sincero de donde crece la palma
Y antes de morirme yo quiero cantar mis versos del alma
Guantanamera, guajira Guantanamera
Guantanamera, guajira Guantanamera
Cultivo una rosa blanca, en julio como en enero
Cultivo una rosa blanca, en julio como en enero
Para el amigo sincero que me da su mano franca.
Guantanamera, guajira Guantanamera
Guantanamera, guajira Guantanamera
Guantanamera, guajira Guantanamera
Guantanamera, guajira Guantanamera
Mi verso es de un verde claro y de un carmin encendido
Mi verso es de un verde claro y de un carmin encendido
Mi verso es un ciervo herido que busca en el monte amparo.
Guantanamera, guajira Guantanamera
Guantanamera, guajira Guantanamera
Guantanamera, guajira Guantanamera
Guantanamera, guajira Guantanamera
Guantanamera, guajira Guantanamera
Guantanamera, guajira Guantanamera
Puppets:
Havanese puppets made by Denny's mother!!!
Kissssss:
Bath!!!
Recipes
from Cuba!!!
Mojito
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Roast
pork
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1 tsp sugar
1/4 oz. lime juice
2 sprigs of mint leaves
2 oz. soda water
1 1/2 oz. light dry rum In a glass of 8 oz.
dissolve 1 tbsp sugar and 1/4 lime juice. Add 2 sprigs of
mint leaves and crush stems wuth a muddler, then add ice
cubes and 1 1/2 oz. Havana Club Light Dry. Fill with 2
oz. soda water and stir.
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1.000 gr pork leg
1/2 cup leek
1/2 cup celery
1/4 spoonful whole peppers
2 cups ground carrot
1 cup white wine
Salt at taste, 1/2 cup lard Lean the leg,
leaving 1 cm of fat. Season it with salt. Wash and cut
vegetables and add them to the meat. Add the lard, the
whole peppers, the white wine and water. Roast in the
oven.
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Rum
Collins
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Creole Sauce
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1 tsp sugar
1/4 oz lime juice
2 oz soda water
1 1/2 oz Light Dry Rum
1 slice of lime In a tall glass of 8 oz,
dissolve 1 tsp sugar and 1/4 oz lime juice. Add 1 1/2 oz
Light Dry Rum and fill with 2 oz soda water. Garnish with
a lime slice.
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1 onion
1 pepper
1 bay leaf
1 paprika
1/2 cup leek
1 fresh tomato
1/2 cup canned tomatoes
salt at taste
1/2 cup oil Chop the tomato and add the pepper,
the onion, the garlic, the bay leaf and paprika. In a pot
with oil, add all the ingredients and fry them. In
another pot, dissolve the tomato paste in water, add the
other ingredients and simmer.
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Cuba
Libre
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Sangria
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Coke
1 1/2 oz Havana Club Rum
1 slice lime In a glass of 8 oz, pour 1
1/2 oz Havana Club, fill it with coke. Stir and garnish
with a lime slice.
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1 tsp sugar
2 oz lime juice
4 oz soda water
4 oz red wine In a glass of 14 oz,
dissolve 1 tsp sugar and 4 oz lime juice. Add 4 oz soda
water amd 4 oz red wine. Stir and add ice cubes.
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Black Beans
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Moros y cristianos
(black beans and white rice)
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2 cups black beans
1 green pepper
6 cloves garlic
1 big onion
1 bay leaf
/2 spoonful cumin
1/4 spoonful ground pepper
salt at taste
1/4 cup sugar
1 cup red wine
1 cup oil
1/4 cup vinegar Wash the beans and soak them
for 6 hours. Cook the beans in the same water for 2
hours, add garlic, pepper, onion and the bay leaf. Fry in
oll the remaining spices and pour over the beans. Cook
the beans for 25 minutes at 75 degrees. Season with salt
and sugar. Add the red wine.
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1 1/2 cup black bean soup
4 1/2 cups rice
2 cups pork crackling
6 cloves garlic
1 onion
1 pepper
1/2 cup lime or cooking
wine
1/2 cup oil
Salt at taste Fry the garlic, the pepper, the
onion and the pork cracklings in oil. Add tender beans,
rice and finally the hot soup where black beans were
cooked. Continue cooking at a boiling point and then
simmer until the rice is tender. Add some lime juice and
cooking wine, if desired.
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Fried pork
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Roast Pork Rolls
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1,000 g lean pork chunks
1/4 spoonful ground pepper
1 small garlic bulb
1/2 cup sour orange
salt at taste
1/2 cup lard Stuff the meat chunks with ground
pepper, mashed garlic and salt. Place the meat on a
platter and pour over sour orange
juice, add more salt, garlic and pepper. Marinade for
several hours. Put the chunks in cold lard and fry them
slowly. When
they turn brown, take the chunks out to chill. For
conservation, keep them in the same lard where they were
fried, once they
are cold.
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1,000 g loin and leaf fat
1/2 spoonful sour orange
1 small garlic bulb
1/4 spoonful oregano
salt at taste
1/2 cup lard Choose the pork ribs, leaving
approximately seven centimeters of bone. Make a cut to
the shoulders, then to the leg until reaching the
horizontal cut of the ribs, joined to the loin. Remove
the bones, leftovers and fat. The dressing is prepared
with garlic and sour orange juice. Marinade the meat with
salt and half of the dressing. Roll the loin with the
leaf fat and tie the roll. Roast slowly during 2 hours,
take it out to chill. Serve on a platter, with the
remaining derssing in hot lard, pour it over the
meat.
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Picadillo
(chopped meat)
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Tasajo
(jerked beef)
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1,000 g chopped beef
1 green pepper
1 small garlic bulb
1 onion
1/2 cup tomato sauce
1/2 cup lime juice or vinegar
1/2 cup oil
salt at taste. Soak the jerked beef during 12
hours and change the water. Boil it twice and discard
that water, this cooking process takes 2 1/2 hours as an
average. Then smash the jerked beef strongly into threads
and make a Creole sauce. Saute the jerked beef in small
amount of lard, adding the sauce. Add the cooking wine
and cook during 5 minutes.
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1,000 g jerked beef
1 big pepper
1 small garlic bulb
1 onion
1/4 spoonful sweet pepper
1/4 spoonful paprika
1/4 spoonful oregano
1 bay leaf
2 fresh tomatoes
1/4 cup tomato paste
1/2 cup lard
1/2 cup cooking wine
salt at taste. Soak the jerked beef during 12
hours and change the water. Boil it twice and discard
that water, this cooking process takes 2 1/2 hours as an
average. Then smash the jerked beef strongly into threads
and make a Creole sauce. Saute the jerked beef in small
amount of lard, adding the sauce. Add the cooking wine
and cook during 5 minutes.
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Casserole Chicken
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Flat
-fried green
plantains
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1 chicken
1 garlic bulb
1 pepper
1/4 spoonful oregano
1/2 cup lime juice
1/2 cup tomato sauce
1 cup ham
1/2 cup pochola
wine or cooking wine
salt at taste. Marinade the chicken with
garlic, oregano and salt. Roast it in the oven. Preparate
a consommé with the giblets, add peppers, garlic, tomato
sauce and salt. When the consommé is ready, strain the
liquid and cook slowly in the oven. Add diced ham.
Remove the consommé from the heat after 5 minutes and
pour over the roast chicken which is in the oven,
continue cooking it for 5 minutes. Take out and sprinkle
pochola or cooking wine, before serving.
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green plantains,
lard.
Chop green plantains in chunks. Fry in
lard. Drain and flatten gently with a brown paper.
Re-fry quickly in hot lard and serve at
once.
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Boteguita
seasoned sauce
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6 cloves garlic
1 onion
1/2 cup sour orange or lime
1/4 up lard
1/2 cup parsley
Smash the garlic. Add the parsley, the
onion, the sour orange and then very hot lard. This
Creole dressing is delicious either to pour over
vegetables or to serve with meat and fish.
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Art
gallery:
Antiques:
The first document that nominates a Bichon devoted to an
important person is dated in 25 after Christ: Strabone, greek
geograph lived between the 66 before Christ and the 24 after
Christ, tells this tale:
"There exists a town in Sicily called Melita where
excellent quality dogs are exportated from, called Canis Melitei".
From the ancient ages we got a sweet poem by a writer of that
period that wrote these things about Publius, roman governor in
Malta, owner of a Bichon called Issa:
"Issa is more graceful than Catullo's sparrow,
prettier
than a little girl, more precious than the gems from India.
Because of the fear that one day his eyes won't be able
to look at her, Publius made her be portraied."
Publius, roman governor in Malta, I° century after Christ.
More
antiques...
Rainbow
Bridge
Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge.
When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone
here, they go to Rainbow Bridge. There are meadows and hills for
all of our special friends so they can run and play together.
There is plenty of food, water and sunshine, and our friends are
warm and comfortable. All the animals who have been ill and old
are restored to health and vigor; those who were hurt or maimed
are made whole and strong again, just as we remember them in our
dreams of days and times gone by. The animals are happy and
content, except for one small thing; they each miss someone very
special to them, who had to be left behind. They all run and play
together, but the day comes when one suddenly stops and looks
into the distance. His bright eyes are intent; his eager body
begins to quiver. Suddenly he begins to run from the group,
flying over the green grass, his legs carrying him faster and
faster. You have been spotted, and when you and your special
friend finally meet, you cling together in joyous reunion, never
to be parted again. The happy kisses rain upon your face; your
hands again caress the beloved head, and you look once more into
the trusting eyes of your pet, so long gone from your life but
never absent from your heart. Then you cross Rainbow Bridge
together.
--Author Unknown