My Mexican oven and I getting jiggy with each other. I gambled on madeleines and they came out perfectly. Will share the batch with my gardener and his family. I'm not sure they really like the anglo bakes that I give them, but they are appreciative that we think of them at the holidays.
While I'm not religious in the least, our village puts on a live Passion Play that is quite the production. Buses pour in from Mexico City and beyond.
For the devout, Good Friday's 4+ hour long Play which ends with a steep climb to "Calvary Hill" is the high point. For us, it's Saturday night when locally made life-size paper mache' effigies of Judas, covered with large firecrackers are hung in the trees in our Plaza and then ignited at 11PM. At midnight all the church bells toll for a solid 30 minutes.
