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TOPICS: ¡Con Gusto! Cookbook Lent Recipes POSTED BY:  CARDENAS.AE@GMAIL.COM   JANUARY 23, 2016 Lent comes early this year. Ash Wednesday will be on February 10, less than three weeks from now. Now is the time to pull out your ¡Con Gusto!  cookbook and start looking for recipes. Capirotada, a Lent favorite. Of course, the most traditional Lenten dish in South Texas is capirotada or “ sopa ” as we called in our home. Different cooks use different ingredients, and you can find four recipes in  ¡Con Gusto! . Edna Rios of San Diego uses cinnamon sticks, brown sugar margarine, anise, slices of toast, cheese slices, raisins, apple and pecans. Esmeralda Garcia’s capirotada has sugar, ground cinnamon, ground cloves, buttered toast, seedless raisin and shredded cheese. The book also has recipes from Evelyn Garcia Tobin of Edinburg and Blanca Perez of San Diego. Albondigas, salmon patties. Another popular Lenten dish is albondigas, or salmon patties. Lydia Canales from Benavides provides her fa

TOPICS: Andrew Valls Benavides Clemente Reyna Duval County Texas E.A. Glover Hayes Dix POSTED BY:  CARDENAS.AE@GMAIL.COM   JANUARY 12, 2016 On Feb. 6, 1893, two men at a Benavides bar got into a disagreement and were about to start swinging when a newly elected constable stepped in to stop the fight. The constable, who was an amputee, with only one arm was pushed back by one of the two men and the lawmen drew his pistol but was shot and killed by a bystander . Nobody served time in jail as the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas reversed the conviction in a lower court, ruling that the lower court failed to instruct the jury that the fatal shots could have been in self defense. Now let us visit the story as closely as possible given the scarcity of available historical records. The Corpus Christi Caller would have been the newspaper of record for this type of incident but most issues from 1891-1898 are missing due to a fire. Clemente Reyna was elected constable for Duval County Precinc

TOPICS: Duval County James O. Luby Politics Republicans Texas Gov. Edmund Davis POSTED BY:  CARDENAS.AE@GMAIL.COM   JANUARY 3, 2016 In our last blog about James O. Luby he had just returned to Duval County after serving as customs collector in Brownsville, having been appointed to the post by Republican president Chester A. Arthur. Active in the political life of Duval County from its inception, Luby picked up where he had left off.