12 oz. Beer
Juice of one lemon
* 2 dashes of Worcestershire sauce
1 dash soy sauce or Maggi seasoning
1 dash Tabasco or chile sauce
1 pinch black pepper
1 pinch salt
A dish of salt to rim the glass
Preparation:
Rim the lip of a tall serving glass with salt and then fill with ice.
Mix in all the ingredients except the beer.
Pour in your beer slowly.
Stir gently and serve generously.
* Note: The oversized bumpy Limon de Cerveza, or Beer Lemon is pretty close to a real lemon. Or use lime.
Hijuela ?!?
Literally, without the accent over the I, hijuela [eee-HWAY-lah] is defined as the heir's share in the partition of an estate; a palm or palmetto seed; an irrigation channel; or a hem. However, with the accent over the I [pronounced EEE-hway-lah], followed by "punto com" (dot com), sounds like a thinly veiled reference to Nicaragua's favorite expletive, Hijo de [la] Puta, or Son of a Bitch. Since polite people don't refer to someone's mother as a Bitch (after all it is not likely her fault that her son is a jackass), or Puta, the Punto suffices to suggest. Variations in spoken Nicaraguense:
'juela: HWAY-lah! (sonofa)
'jueputa: hway-POO-tah! (sombitch)
Hijuela puta: EEE-hway-lah-POO-tah! (son of a bitch)
Hijuela gran puta: EEE-hway-lah-grahn-POO-tah! (son of the biggest bitch)
Hijuela puchica: EEE-hway-lah-POO-chee-kah! (son of a sort of bitch)
Hijuela70putas: EEE-hway-lah-seh-tehn-tah-POO-tahz! (son of seventy bitches)
Hijo de los cien mil putos que violaron la gran puta que te pario! (ask a Nica)
Try them out. Unleash your inner Nica.
Send more to info@hijuela.com!
IN A NUTSHELL
On July 8, 2009 the Nicaraguan government awarded 85-year-old former Foreign
Minister Emilio Alvarez Montalvan the highest order for distinguished
personalities. In his thank you speech, Alvarez Montalvan, who is also
a physician and a political pundit, surprised the audience, not to
mention government officials, with this analysis of Nicaragua: "What
explains our backwardness and the huge inequality in Nicaraguan living
standards? Seeking an answer, I reread Nicaragua's history, and there I
found it. We have had ten civil wars, three dictatorships, a long
period of anarchy and even foreign occupation. We have squandered 63.l%
of our republican life fighting over the presidential chair with
bullets and blood. That has been the path taken by Conservatives,
Liberals and Sandinistas, leaving fratricidal wars, rancor,
interminable expulsions and huge territorial losses... I am concerned
about the behavior of the branches of state. The authoritarian and
centralist mien of the head of the executive branch, with
confrontational oratory that labels the independent media's right to
dissent a crime and accuses NGOs carrying out their social work of
conspiring against the public order, maintains a close association with
utopian and dangerous projects of foreign inspiration that could drag
us into military conflicts... On the other side, the opposition remains
divided, hurling insults and weakening its role as watchdog, moderator
and comptroller of the state branches... What is going on in essence?
Very simply we lack trustworthy and effective institutions and our
political class, with some exceptions, lacks a democratic culture, a
national vision and a spirit of disinterested public service..."(http://www.envio.org.ni/articulo/4043)
El Macua
Coctel Nacional Nicaraguense
Un vaso de 8 onzas, hielo
Una onza, ron blanco
Una onza, jugo de guava
Media onza, jugo de limon mezclado con azucar
Mezclar ingredientes en mezclador y decorar con limon
(Rum, guava juice, lemon juice, simple syrup; Shake and garnish with lime)
Note: "Guava Acida," regardless of the variations (guayaba, etc) on translation, is what you seek to make this cocktail.
Dr. Edmundo Miranda de Granada ganó el concurso nacional. Haga clic en la foto para leer el artículo que apareció en los New York Times (inglés).
♦SIMAS: Servicio de Informacion Mesoamericano sobre Agricultura Sostenible http://www.simas.org.ni/ ♦SEMINARIO DE
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ENCUENTRO: Opinion publica y en la vida politica y social del pais, incluso los planteamientos y analisis feministas: http://www.puntos.org.ni/
♦REVISTA ENVIO:
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