Moose Sightings

Grandma Moose, the distinguished great-grandmother from Rhode Island, spend the last week with us. In addition to spending quality time with her newest great-grandchild, she’s also been busy cheering on Olivia at her dance recital, catching us up on the happenings with the family, and preparing glorious Puerto Rican dishes. She’s kind enough to prepare the arroz con grandules – rice with pigeon peas (and usually prepared with pork) – with meat substitutes, and her tostones – a dish made from unripe plantains that are sliced and then fried twice – are to die for.

She prepared bountiful portions of the dishes when she got here, and is leaving us with another generous batch on the eve of her return home. The food is so good and authentic that our inner-Puerto Rican comes bursting out with each successive forkful – my non-Puerto Rican self included.