Rosa and her sister Manuela would ever so carefully be kneading the dough with their beautiful slender fingers.  This was a task that was saved for special occasions like Thanksgiving and Christmas.  That regular Sunday drive on Valley Boulevard, the longest street ever, stopping at the Liquor Mart for Dad's cigarettes, driving by the giant slide and Mr. Brawny and his golf club watching.  And, who could forget Bob's Big Boy! Oh those were simple, yet memorable times.  Very often they would talk, the two of them, with my father the sidekick, and share in that girlish giggle that sisters have, when they would bring our families together.  
I remember watching my Tia Rosa' s hands and that of Mom in particular.  Making feasts with their families at their side, while Vicente Fernandez's songs played in the background.  They were carefully crafting something magical on that dinner table in L.P.  They'd kneaded the dough and rolled it out ever so carefully and neatly.  I never saw them measure the ingredients, experts in what was needed.  Mothers.  The center of our universe; our conscience.  Hard-working women.  We call her  mother, daughter, sister, and cousin.  They would work a feast for us to enjoy... They baked a bountiful turkey, a ham for Henry (because he was the ham we all loved and he simply hated turkey!), buttered mashed potatoes and cranberries, camote and the pumpkin pie.  But what we all waited for... was what they had the most fun making, the famous buenelos.  Oh every year, I'd wait;  Wait with great anticipation for the delicious crispy flour tortillas with just the right amount of sugar and cinnamon to hit the pallete.  Although I have not spoken about this.. It is an actual  flavor I have missed for years and know in my heart that they delighted in, Rosa and Manuela, bringing us this amazing tradition.  It was love to their families. They brought everything to my life. I honor them by making bunuelos every year.

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26 septiembre, 1938 – 14 enero, 2021

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