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Posted: Mon Nov 26th, 2007 03:05 pm |
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Maybe you know them all. Now remember to learn how to say the letters, if not you might be saying the "wrong" word.
pepper = pimienta
salt = sal
mayonaise = mayonesa
ketchup = ketchup
mustard = mostaza
oil = aceite
vinegar = vinagre
hot sauce = salsa picante (Just for you, MJ)
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Posted: Mon Nov 26th, 2007 03:09 pm |
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Some more!
napkin = servilleta
cuchillo = knife
spoon = cuchara (not cucaracha!)
fork = tenedor
plate = plato
cup = taza
Necesito una servilleta - I need a napkin
Una taza de cafe, por favor = a cup of coffee, please
The others you can fill in and I will correct them. How about that?
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Posted: Mon Nov 26th, 2007 08:15 pm |
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| When I was in Fajardo, I ordered a sandwich from a roadside vendor. While serving it, the vendor picked up the mustard container and offered (phonetically) "Moo-TARD?" Since then, I have been calling it that in Espanol ever since. Is he just using the anglo term?
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Posted: Tue Nov 27th, 2007 01:27 am |
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Oh come one - ketchup is ketchup??? 
No cucaracha en la cuchara por favor.
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Posted: Tue Nov 27th, 2007 01:56 pm |
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| Doug, he either was pulling your leg...or just trying his best English
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Posted: Tue Nov 27th, 2007 02:09 pm |
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| When I saw your menu, that's what I figured...
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Posted: Tue Nov 27th, 2007 05:24 pm |
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Mucho gracias for salsa picante. But it brings up a question I have a LOT!
One thing I make is the PR version a Culebrense woman taught me with vinegar, PR peppers, racao etc. called pique (awesome on rice and beans, and mine is good, but not the best I've had, which have oil in them). But then, when people look at the other sauces, they call them pique, usually with a question mark in their voice. Then they ask if they are hot. So I try poquito caliente...mas grande caliente...but there just seems to be this whole area about hot sauce using spanish I don't understand.
PR pique is HOT stuff due to the little red peppers, but it's very different than a hot *sauce*. And then there is the word salsa, which to an english speaker means a chunkier, usually spicy, but not super hot product.
Any ideas?
Mujer de la Isla MJ, who loves to talk about food in any language!
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Posted: Tue Nov 27th, 2007 05:55 pm |
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I'd love to hear the answer to that as well....because I always had the same question -- I always assumed (and boy oh boy has that gotten me into trouble before ) that pique meant a sauce with peppers. And then pique like you make is different than a red hot sauce (which I call salsa picante) put through the blending process. All I know is the emotions of the past few days has me yearning for rice and beans and pique.....with lots and lots of garlic. and sand between my toes and tropical breezes in my hair....and I'm gonna get spanked by Paws Nest because I didn't do this in Espanol
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Posted: Tue Nov 27th, 2007 06:48 pm |
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The PR version is plainly call "pique". Now, lots of garlic, recao, black pepper, red pepper ( the small ones) in vinegar, no oil, no blending, let it float freely and you must put it outside for some sun!!!!! Nuestro pique es un poquito caliente.
Your "salsa" es bien caliente
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Posted: Tue Nov 27th, 2007 07:13 pm |
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Nuestro salsa es bien o ¨mucho¨caliente? Fuerte?
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Posted: Tue Nov 27th, 2007 07:58 pm |
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I'm going out on a limb. The only way MJ's sauce is caliente is if she nukes it or heats it on the stove, eh? By adding more habaneros she makes it mas picante.
Caliente = hot with heat.
Picante = hot with spice.
Or am I missing the point here?
Last edited on Tue Nov 27th, 2007 07:59 pm by Doug
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Posted: Tue Nov 27th, 2007 09:29 pm |
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I made a mistake, a little one, though.
La salsa de MJ es bien picante.
Now you are confused!!
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Posted: Wed Nov 28th, 2007 12:47 am |
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Si, ahora, yo necisito mucha ayuda!!
OK, bien also means good in the sense of strong sauce?
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Posted: Wed Nov 28th, 2007 02:28 pm |
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OK! bien is also used for very, like very hot.
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