DECK THE HOLIDAY'S

   Finely grated lime peel, a tangy lime glaze, and crunchy pistachios brighten up this old-school favorite. Ingredients cake 1 cup cake flour 1 1/2 cups superfine sugar, divided 1/4 teaspoon salt 10 large egg whites, room temperature 2 teaspoons finely grated lime peel 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 teaspoon cream of tartar lime syrup and lime glaze 1/2 cup sugar 4 tablespoons fresh lime juice, divided 1/2 cup unsalted raw pistachios (about 2 ounces), finely chopped in processor 1/2 cup powdered sugar special equipment 10-inch-diameter angel food cake pan with 4-inch-high sides and removable bottom (do not use nonstick pan) KITCHEN TIP Be sure not to use a nonstick pan or to grease or butter the cake pan for this cake. Because this cake is cooled upside down, you want it to stick to the sides a bit. If your angel food cake pan doesn't have feet, have a metal funnel or a bottle with a slim neck nearby. You'll invert the tube of the pan onto t

    During Halloween season, when images of ghosts and goblins start to inhabit our consciousness, it is important to remember that people are not the only ones who have been known to return to our world of perception as spirits, apparitions, phantoms or poltergeists. Dogs, cats, sheep, horses, and cattle have been known to haunt human beings throughout the history of folklore.     Typically, parasychologists consider ghostly animals as those creatures whose deaths were unusually emotional in some way, and that their new identity of a ghost is a curse that never allows them to est. Sometimes they are harmless, although frightening. However if they appear colored dark black than usually they represent a premonition that something dire is about to happen. In Trucker lore, the image of a black dog is usually the ultimate sign of dread and bad luck.     In East Anglia generally, whenever someone was o their death bed, people would say that "the black dog is at his heels&quo

The History     5000 years ago, people don’t have surnames, they are only identified through their occupation. Labrador (meaning laborer) identifies those who perform hard work in the fields. San Isidro is one of them, a tenant of a certain land. Despite his tardiness he always finishes his tasks for that day. His landlord wondered how the laborer finished his work despite being late, so one time he went to the field to see for himself how San Isidro does his job. Upon arriving at the field he saw an angel plowing the field. In shock and awe the landlord knelt, a scene immortalized in various images of San Isidro Labrador. The Festival     Pulilan Carabao Festival was created in honor of the carabao, the farmer’s companion in the fields and his helping hand during plantation and harvest, but the main reason on why it was created is to honor their patron saint, San Isidro de Labrador.     Before the festival, the populace will have Novena for 9 days and for 24 da