Jessi is home!!! She arrived in late on Friday night and gets to stay for 10 days. Last week she attened a Kids Alive missionary conference in Wisconsin. John and Rachel and the kids came up to help us welcome her home. Last night, Jessi cooked us some Dominican rice to go with the pupusas that I made for dinner.

In case you don't know what a pupusa is, it is a filled tortilla. They are made from the masa mixture that you would normally pat out a tortilla from, but before you pat it out, you put in a little ball of cream cheese and mozzarella that has been mixed together and also a little ball of refried beans. They make their beans from scratch, but I use the kind from a can. The cheese that is normally used is hard to find in the states, but cream cheese is a pretty close substitute. You put the cheeses and beans in, then cover with the masa dough and pat it out flat. It is hard to do without the beans leaking back out. Then you just cook them on a griddle like a pancake. I learned how to make them from one of the students that was here from El Salvador. These don't look very good, but they tasted ok. The ones I have had in Central America are perfectly rounded and nothing leaking through.