PERUVIAN LIME PIE

   One of my favorite Peruvian desserts is Lime Pie. I have learnt to bake this exquisite dessert and I want to share the recipe with you. I hope you can enjoy it with your family and friends.

6 - 8 persons
Baking pan glass – 24 cm (9.5”)
Oven preheated to 350 °F (180 °C)
Serving cold, preferably

Ingredients & Baking

Crust:
2 cups - Tea biscuit cookies, ground (Vanilla)*
½ cup - Butter without salt, melted, or coconut oil

   In a bowl, mix cookies and butter with a spatula. Put the mixture in the baking pan: spreading and pressing on the bottom. Bring it to the oven during 15 minutes. Taking away and leaving cool during 5-8 minutes.

* If you live in Vancouver-BC and suburbs, I suggest using ÜLKER brand, 175 gr. (6.5 oz.)
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Filling:
1 can - Condensed milk (400gr/14 oz)
½ cup - Lime juice
4 units - Yolks, slightly mixed

   In a bowl, mix condensed milk, lime juice and yolks. When mixture get a gelatinous consistency, pour on the crust on the baking pan. Bring it to the oven again during 15 minutes more. Taking away and leaving cool during 5-8 minutes.

Meringue:
4 units - Whites
¾ cup - White sugar

   In a bowl, whisk whites until get a white froth. After that, add gradually sugar while mixture is whisked until it gets a snow point. Put mixture on filling on the baking pan. Spread with spatula covering completely. Make the small horns with a fork moving it in circle and raising it fast. Bring the baking pan to the oven again during 15 minutes more. Meringue must get brown color.

Finally, leave cool, put in refrigerator and serve.

I made this Lime Pie!

A HAPPY FINAL

   Personally, I don’t like to go to gatherings with mass audiences on the streets, but once I took part in one. It was a music concert in the downtown of my city. This event was organized by citizens who were promoting “values” such as integrity, truth, peace, honesty, social responsibility, transparency and justice. The stage was set up in front of the Sheraton Hotel, near the Justice Palace. At that time, my country had an election in progress.

   I went to the concert with my son Andres, who was 10 years old. When we arrived at the event, the street was almost full. A lot of people were around us and my little boy could not see the musicians easily. Then, I put him on my shoulders, but he wasn’t a baby and he really weighed a lot. When I was tired I put Andres down on the ground. After some minutes, he was restless and bored. In these circumstances, of course, I wasn’t enjoying the concert. Therefore, bringing to Andres wasn’t a good idea. But the worst was coming. Andres told me about his need to go to a washroom. I didn’t know what do, but I had to move fast because there were no public washrooms available in the place.

   I decided to go to the Sheraton Hotel with him. It was a big challenge for us because the hotel was behind the stage, 200 meters from our position. Also, we had hundreds of people in front us and the security attendants’ lines, too. Even though, my decision looked like madness, we had to do it.

  After that, things got better for us. When we were leaving to the hotel, we came across with some friends and their children who were members of organizing committee. They invited us to enter the VIP section, and we enjoyed the concert comfortably because in this section had chairs and we were very close to the stage. Finally, after the concert a friend dropped us off in our house.

URBAN COMMAND UNIT

   Early in a summer morning, Paul worked out by running around a park. After twenty minutes, he heard a loud noise. A huge bomb had blown up near the park. He waited a few seconds, and then he run as fast as possible in the direction of the sound. When he came to the place and saw the chaos, he remembered his days in the Middle East war. The explosion had taken place in Afghanistan consulate.

   Paul began to help to the consulate’s residents looking for injured people. After some minutes, he came across his friend Bob, who died with the explosion in front of the consulate while he was walking towards the Skytrain Station. When Paul saw his friend on the pavement, he went mad all of a sudden; he was hysterical. His friend Bob was with him in the war and Bob had been his commanding officer. Paul looked up to Bob.

   Paul went back to his house. He was very sad and called off his business appointment. He put it off for another day.

   After two days, Paul went to Bob’s funeral and offered Bob’s family his condolences. While they were waiting by the hearse, Paul looked back on the moments that Bob and he lived through the war. After a few minutes, he observed that Bob’s first son looked like his father, and Paul cried silently.

   After three months, Paul couldn’t get over the loss of his friend. In view of police investigations were slowly, he decided to take action against the murderers. He reviewed the officers list of his battalion and picked out twelve of them, and he recruited them. Paul made up an Urban Commando Unit (UCU)

   They started their investigation and found out that the police had left out in its criminal inquiry some details of the crime and threw away some clues. Immediately, UCU’s members prepared a strategy. Finally, after three weeks, they caught the murderers and handed them over to the police, and were rewarded by civilian authorities.

   Since that moment until now, a lot of media are inviting to Paul for telling his history. Urban Commando Unit’s history has made full many news headlines and has been covered  TV reports around the world.

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This story is not real. It has been created by me.

MAKING MONEY

   Money is present in every aspect of life. It's indispensable for surviving in a world increasingly materialist and consumption-oriented. Around the world, societies have classified their populations according to their incomes. Social status and purchasing power are determined by the amount of money made. Therefore, people strive to make money to get the best status. Chasing this purpose, there are some who make money legally and others who do so illegally.

   A biblical verse goes: "The love of money is root of all evil." In others words, when people put their complete trust and faith just in money, they can be capable of "selling their own souls" in order to have money in their hands. These wise words are true for both types of people.

   Some people make money breaking the law or by ignoring ethical rules. A great percentage of prisoners in the jails are serving sentences for crimes related to money. Crimes such as robbery, kidnapping, murder, corruption, prostitution, scam, fraud, and illegal traffic of drugs or weaponry, are a result of eager behaviors of people who love money at any price. Paradoxically, after their crimes, they don't have enough time to enjoy their money because soon they are arrested and imprisoned; otherwise, they live hidden and worried sick.

   On the other hand, people who make money legally can attain their money goals, however, a huge number of them, at the expense of hurting their health, breaking off their relationships, or immersing themselves in vices. Nowadays, many people work overtime on their jobs and they live so anxiously. Being "workaholic" is almost normal in our societies. A lot of medical offices are visited by people with symptoms of stress. Also, relationships are affected when somebody dedicates themselves to long working hours. Many divorces are product of partners being absent; many children demand the attention of their absent parents through bad social behavior; and many persons suffer loneliness.

   In addition, many companies, taking advantage of the social necessity of making money, offer to the people different kinds of gambling and lotteries. Making money easily is the dream of a lot of people, but it is “a double-edged sword” because they can be trapped in gambling and lose more than they have inverted.

   In conclusion, money is important in the lives of the people. However, happiness and prosperity doesn't come from money only. Money is a means, and it's not an end. Therefore, everyone should consider making money wisely, without badly affecting their health, violating ethics, breaking laws, exhibiting anti-social behavior, and destroying relationships.