By Manzanillo Sun Writer from the February 2014 Edition Ingredients Unsweetened baking cocoa 6 oz semisweet baking chocolate, chopped 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons butter or margarine 3 whole eggs 3 egg yolks 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar 1/2 cup Gold Medal® all-purpose flour* Additional powdered sugar or sugared kumquats and strawberries or raspberries, if desired Directions […]
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By Suzanne A. Marshall from the February 2014 Edition Director:Kenneth Branagh Starring:Chris Pine, Keira Knightley, Kevin Costner,Kenneth Branagh “Jack Ryan, as a young covert CIA analyst, uncovers a Russian plot to crash the U.S. economy with a terrorist attack.” If you’re a Tom Clancy fan like me, you’ll like the movie. It’s well acted and looks great. It […]
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By Suzanne A. Marshall from the February 2014 Edition Director: David O. Russell Starring: Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, Amy Adams, Jennifer Lawrence,Jeremy Renner “A con man, Irving Rosenfeld, along with his seductive British partner, Sydney Prosser, is forced to work for a wild FBI agent, Richie DiMaso. DiMaso pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia” […]
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By Suzanne A. Marshall from the February 2014 Edition Director:Jon Turteltaub Starring:Michael Douglas, Robert De Niro,Morgan Freeman, Kevin Kline “Three sixty something friends take a break from their day-to-day lives to throw a bachelor party in Las Vegas for their last remaining single pal.” This movie is totally predictable in a really ‘good’ way. I knew it would […]
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By Manzanillo Sub Writer from the February 2014 Edition We are in Manzanillo and Freda had me take her to some friend’s where I got into it with Eduardo and then Manolo not so much about the Mythology of the Aztecs but its origins and the Aztec themselves. I would have gladly continued this month with the […]
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By Manzanillo Sun Writer from the February 2014 Edition Friends and acquaintances of Freda were in for a huge surprise in early January when we received an email from her WRITTEN FROM MANZANILLO!! Yes, she is here for a short stay and the “welcome back” she received was as if for a dignitary of which she has […]
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By Manzanillo Sun Writer from the February 2014 Edition We first came to Manzanillo in 1996. After a long and very eventful journey by car, full of surprises and much laughter along the way, we arrived in town at about 3.30 p.m. Eventually we ended up in Las Brisas, a small community at the southern part of […]
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By Manzanillo Sun Writer from the February 2014 Edition Terminalia catappa Family: Combretum Also known as: Sea Almond, Indian Almond, Malabar Almond, Barbados Almond, Bastard Almond, Bengal Almond, Country Almond, Demarara Almond, Fijian Almond and False Kamani. Originally from Madagascar, Malaysia and the East Indies, the Tropical Almond Tree is now ubiquitous throughout the world’s tropics. Some […]
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By Suzanne A. Marshall from the February 2014 Edition When friends invited us on a daytrip to explore the local countryside in Colima, we couldn’t resist. We’ve loved road trips all our lives and have been known to hop in our car and drive to San Francisco from central Alberta, staying in small towns and bed & […]
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By Tommy Clarkson from the February 2014 Edition Chlorophytum amaniense or Chlorophytum orchidantheroides, C. orchidastrum, C. filipendulum amaniense Chlorophytum orchidastrum, Chlorophytum filipendulum, Family: Anthericaceae, Liliaceae or Agavaceae (Also known as a Mandarin Plant, Fire Glory, Orange Spider Plant, Green Orange Tangerine and Sierra Leone Lily.) Introduced to the Americas not much more than a decade ago, this perennial […]
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