Cream of coffee soup

Funny things can happen when you try to fuction in an enviroment in which you do not speak the language. I had a day full of this. It began when I had the notion to use up the left over evaporated milk in vanilla lattes. I found a recipe online. It required powdered sugar, which I asked Ken to pick up at the store. I saw what he got and where he got it from, with the other sugar. At home after lunch I decided to make the lattes. i put the milk in the blender with some vanilla and "powdered sugar". I realized I had forgot to preheat the milk so into the microwave it went. First indication something was not right. It came out of the micro as a thick glob. HUM???? That is wierd. More milk into the blender and lots of "powdered sugar" since the first time it was not sweet. I made my hubby the first one. I poured some of the milk into the steaming cup of coffee and stirred. Strange it thicken like gravy. By the time I took it to Ken it required a spoon to eat. He said it was not sweet at all so more "powdered sugar" into the blender. Then i made one for myself. Really thick and still not sweet so more water and "powdered sugar." So finally, after my sweet hubby choked down the Cream of coffee soup, I tasted the "powdered sugar" straight and realized it must not be sugar. It was potato flour. Yum! It is quite filling, but makes a terrible latte.

I am wanting to make some breakfast sausage and need ground pork. I have not seen ground pork anywhere. i went into my usual carneria(meat store) "Carne a punta" They said no. i walked down to another and asked. They said, "no try Punta" In my effort to explain that I had already been there and they said no i stated in my limited spanish, "Punta habla no" While discussing later what I had actually said, we realized i said, "Now you speak no" Basically, shut up. This may explain why the guy gave Ken a very strange look then asked how much and promptly ground me some pork.

Finally, I picked up some "yellow lentils" in the store. They were right with the green lentils and looked the same. While cooking them I thought they smelled alot like peas. After eating them, I thought they tasted a lot like peas. Out with the spanish-english dictionary. We now know that peelled yellow peas are good in soup.

In conclusion, I should consult my Spanish-English dictionary alot more often.