Once again, its that wholesome time of the year, where we...

[BullitproofSoul]

...listen to Plena infused Salsa

...eat Pastel (will I find a decent one this year)?

...and most importantly, listen to greatest Christmas of all time, Vince Guaraldi's "A Charlie Brown Christmas"

 

[groovetpt]

I'm not Puerto Rican but it just wouldn't be Christmas without pasteles! I got my fix last Saturday. We played at a party for the residents at Casabe Houses for the Elderly in East Harlem and let me tell you the ladies at Casabe can cook! The pasteles were off the hook. Coquito and flan for dessert. Man I was in heaven. And you should see the ladies and gentlemen dancing Salsa, some of them in their 80's and 90's.

 

[groovetpt]

Feliz Navidad to my guitarist friends.

 

[MAMBO_CEC]

Taking time out to wish all my SF buddies a very Merry Christmas (If you celebrate) and a wonderful and prosperous 2016.

 

[BullitproofSoul]

Feliz Navidad to my guitarist friends.

I'm not even gonna try to imagine how that processes a signal.

Props on using a banana leaf and not just paper.

I haven't had a decent pastel in years. They used to be a word mouth thing. You had to know someone, like scoring drugs.

These days, i suppose I could search craigslist.

 

[groovetpt]

I haven't had a decent pastel in years. They used to be a word mouth thing. You had to know someone, like scoring drugs.

exactly. A musician friend's mom cooks up a couple hundred each year and my friend takes orders for the band members. He shows up to the gig with a shopping bag full of pasteles . It's like scoring drugs. Haha. Haven't seen him this year, maybe he got busted.

 

[DJ Yuca]

This is my all time favourite Xmas tune:

I like this too - warning contains rude words:

As I recall this was recorded New Year's Eve - would have loved to have been there!

 

[DJ Yuca]

 

[BullitproofSoul]

I went to my dad's for dinner and was pleasantly surprised his wife had bought some pasteles to accompany dinner. They weren't the best, but pasteles are like pizza, even when they're not great, they're still pretty good.

It also called attention to something I had been thinking about, which is how pasteles differ between the PR type and the DR type, which roughly means "low platano in the masa" vs "lots of platano in the masa." I've come to appreciate the latter type as I've gotten older.

 

[DJ Yuca]

From the greatest era ever:

 

[terence]

From the greatest era ever:

Yep, up "there ", a time when trios were lounge staples. The Tico label always had great selections, particularly good for teachers, as singles were much easier to carry around !..

 

[groovetpt]

It also called attention to something I had been thinking about, which is how pasteles differ between the PR type and the DR type, which roughly means "low platano in the masa" vs "lots of platano in the masa." I've come to appreciate the latter type as I've gotten older.

hmmm.... never had the DR type... but I'd like to!