We are hosting the FED meeting in our house.Yay!

 0h, By the way, Happy Birthday  Paula! !

March 13.06

basketball and other news.

Hectic week. Last weekend I went to San Luis Potosi  for a Christian women’s event with Ben,Seiko and Sara and Hannah Banana.It was 8 hrs away so it took us 2 days  of travelling there and back.
On the event days we would get at 6 am and go to sleep at 12 at night. On the way back we stopped by the SSU in Cuernavaca briefly which was nice. 

On Monday instead of having rest day us three Jonathan’s,Jono ,Jonathan and Jonny respectively went to Mexico City for a basketball game where a bunch of other guys from other homes in Mexico city and corny cow came,we went  by bus and they just so happened to have a bus promotion for half price.With all the travelling and whatnot and metros and traffic it took us  around 4 hours each way and 3 hours of basketball,I hadn’t had get out for a couple of months so I was out of shape,but I manage to shoot a couple of baskets,all the other guys seem to practice every day,but at least my team had some good players so we won a couple of games and lost a couple .Then since that counted as our rest day,even though that same day we unloaded the truck from an event I went to San Luis Potosi and counted all the material which turned out to be like 2 hours of work as well.So this whole week I have been wiped out.

 
Plus on friday was another killer day getting up at 4 am going to the American Embassy and thank God we are through with that.

And at last  it’s my rest day!

strawberry wine/brew

Recently we got a bunch of strawberries given to us which were almost going bad so I made wine out of them .I used a grape wine recipe that I found online,instead of wine yeast I used bread yeast which it said to do for quicker results.It came out excellent after one week and was a big hit,everyone liked it. It had a sweet, bubbly composition and a bit of a brew taste which gave it a nice twist.I made like 2 gallons. I did add a bit of Angie’s brewers yeast which might have given it that flavor. Here’s the recipe if anyone is interested.

2-3 Kg strawberries.

1 and half -2 gallons of water.

1-2 KG of sugar.

Mix.

Brewers yeast 3 spoons.(optional)

heat up water to 85 degrees and pour in with all the other ingredients.

add 55 grams of dried bread yeast.

Mix all together and crush strawberries with hands.

Make sure yeast is all dissolved.

leave for 2 days with a lid on but not tightly sealed.I warmed it up daily in a pot in
the oven to help speed up

the fermentation process but make sure it didn’t get too hot just luke warm so to not kill the yeast.Once the yeast kicks in it should be fizzing and bubbling make sure to have the container no more than 2/3rds full so as to leave room so it will not overflow

Strain.

leave for 2 days. taste,and stir ocassiobnally.

If it needs more sugar add more.More sugar will help it ferment too.

strain with a cloth.leave 3-4 more day and refrigerate.The stuff I made got pretty strong.It was like between 14% and 18% .Vessel says it tasted like boones’ cheap fruit wine.Serve cold.

I am using the same process now for apple wine. I blended the apples though.We’ll see how it turns out soon.It turned out more like a white wine.The girls liked it more,they mixed it with apple soda and then started glugging it down plain and chilled. I liked strawberry brew more probably cause it was more like a beer but also it was stronger the alcoholic content.

Mr. Coffee Man

Until a few weeks ago I was the classic case of the cartoon series “too-much-coffee-man”.I finally did quit coffee.When keren was born I had to stay awake for hours 20 hours that day so I drank a few expressos that day; now for 1 month I’ve managed without it just fine,I hope I can keep it up. I’ve tried many times to quit before but when the time came to get to work,I just couldn’t make it without my fix.Now I have substituted it with a cup of orange juice every morning.