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[flit]

whee!  Flotillas of huge pelicans that dive-bomb fish

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[chrisber]

I never thought of vacations as a reason for e-books, but it makes more sense now. If you had a reader (and since you seem to have some internet access) you could read anything from Project Gutenberg. Along with getting up early, you'd be reading all those classics you'd always meant to read. Double karma!

[flit]

That would have been smart! I don't really like reading ebooks but I think there are some better readers out now, and you sure can fit a lot of books into a small (physical) space that way.

[silkblade]

I don't know what mole you're getting there but the stuff I use, and my family uses, is Dona Maria Mole sauce. It's usually available as Safeway in the specialty/hispanic/foreign food aisle.

Hmm... It looks like it may have things you're allergic to though.

[flit]

The brand we got was called Dona Chonita and unlike many mole recipes I've seen did not have bread crumbs in it; I think they used pumpkin seeds for thickening instead. It was made in Mexico but had distribution through Texas, so I may be able to find that brand here. All three of the sauces we got were very good and made the cooking very easy; I was also very happy to see how "cruft free" that packaged food was in general -- not nearly as many preservatives or weird fillers as I'm used to. The only "gotcha" was that the chipotles in adobo sauce all had soy sauce in them, and I have to assume that it's made normally (with wheat) if the sub-ingredients aren't specified.

I'll go looking for packaged sauces, though, and actually there is a Mexican grocery store right across the street from the little store I often shop at, so I can try there too. I also really liked how thin-cut the meat was; it made it much faster to cook and prepare, so if they have a butcher that cuts meat in that style, all the better.