Fiambre for Day of the Dead
I'm way behind on my posts since I have been waiting to have the time to implement this new "Read More" feature (Expandable Post with Peekaboo View). I have been leery of poking about in the inner workings of my blog, but I noticed and liked this feature on Meeta's Blog (www.whatsforlunchhoney.blogspot.com) and when I asked her how to do it, she referred me (thanks a million, Meeta) to www.hackosphere.blogspot.com. I've been working up my courage, and have taken some time to do this change with "thought". If it works properly, it should be followed by a flurry of posts that have been waiting in the wings for some time.
Today's dish is Fiambre ... a dish that is famous in Guatemala as the food to serve on November 1st, the Day of the Dead, when all and sundry pack up their gardening tools and paintbrushes, their new plastic flowers, their guitars and their kids and head off to the cemetaries to repair the past year's ravages and party a bit with the departed. I'm guessing that the vivid red color of fiambre ...
