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Puerto Rican Garlic Marinade

By: FIVEBRIGS

"This sauce/marinade goes well with any type of meat. It gives lots of flavor, the longer the meat marinades, the more flavorful it will be."

Original Recipe Yield 8 servings

Ingredients

1/2 cup olive oil
4 teaspoons crushed garlic
1 tablespoon salt
2 1/2 teaspoons black pepper
Directions

In a blender or food processor, combine olive oil, garlic, salt, and pepper. Process for 3 to 5 minutes.

Puerto Rican Coquito

"Coquito is a coconut tasting beverage originating from Puerto Rico, popular during the Christmas season. My grandmother and my mother use to prepare it as I was growing up, and the tradition has stayed with me!"

Original Recipe Yield 5 cups

Ingredients

1/2 cup water
1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
1 cup dark rum
2 (15 ounce) cans coconut milk
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 pinch salt

Directions

Pour the water, milk, rum, and coconut milk into a blender. Add the cinnamon and salt. Blend until well combined, then refrigerate for at least one hour, or until ready to serve.

Pollo (Chicken) Fricassee from Puerto Rico

By: MarisLatinTwist

"This is the authentic way to make Pollo Fricassee in Puerto Rico. You can either make in on the stove or in your slow cooker. It is delicious and very easy to make! Serve with white rice, tostones and a nice salad. This tastes even better when you prepare the night before; just take it out of the refrigerator the next morning set it to cook."


40 Min Cook Time:
6 Hrs Ready In:
6 Hrs 40 Min
Servings

Original Recipe Yield 4 servings

Ingredients

1 pound chicken drumsticks
1 tablespoon adobo seasoning
1/2 (.18 ounce) packet sazon seasoning
1/2 teaspoon salt
5 large red potatoes, peeled and thickly sliced
1 large red bell pepper, seeded and chopped
1 large green bell pepper, seeded and chopped
1 large onion, chopped
5 cloves garlic, minced
1 bunch fresh cilantro, chopped
2 tablespoons olive oil
1/2 cup dry red wine
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1 teaspoon dried oregano
2 fresh or dried bay leaves

Puerto Rican Tostones (Fried Plantains)

By: Lymari
"Crispy fried plantains. A plantain is a very firm banana. Serve as side dish with your meal or as appetizers."


Prep Time:
5 Min Cook Time:
5 Min Ready In:
10 Min
Servings


Original Recipe Yield 2 servings

Ingredients

5 tablespoons oil for frying
1 plantains, peeled and broken into chunks
3 cups cold water
salt to taste
Directions

Heat the oil in a large skillet. Place the plantains in the oil and fry on both sides; approximately 3 1/2 minutes per side.
Remove the plantains from the pan and flatten the plantains by placing a plate over the fried plantains and pressing down.
Dip the plantains in water, then return them to the hot oil and fry 1 minute on each side. Salt to taste and serve immediately.

Coquito II

By: GISELLE73

"This a traditional Puerto Rican eggnog. I am Crucian-Puerto Rican (from St. Croix, VI) and we enjoy this made with our own Cruzan Rum. So, kick up your feet and enjoy!"

Original Recipe Yield 1 gallon

Ingredients

6 egg yolks
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
4 tablespoons vanilla extract
1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
5 (12 fluid ounce) cans evaporated milk
1 (10 ounce) can unsweetened coconut milk
1 (14 ounce) can cream of coconut
4 1/4 cups light rum

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quotations about suicide

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest -- whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories -- comes afterward. These are games; one must first answer.

ALBERT CAMUS, An Absurd Reasoning

quotations about suicide


f suicide be supposed a crime, 'tis only cowardice can impel us to it. If it be no crime, both prudence and courage should engage us to rid ourselves at once of existence, when it becomes a burden.

DAVID HUME, Essays on Suicide and the Immortality of the Soul

quotations about suicide


The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets successfully through many a bad night.

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Beyond Good and Evil

quotations about suicide

If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself but to put myself back together again. Suicide will be for me only one means of violently reconquering myself, of brutally invading my being, of anticipating the unpredictable approaches of God. By suicide, I reintroduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my will.

ANTONIN ARTAUD, "On Suicide"

quotations about suicide

When your principles seem to be demanding suicide, clearly it’s time to check your premises.

NATHANIEL BRANDEN, The Free Radical, Oct. 2004

quotations about suicide


In most cases, suicide is a solitary event and yet it has often far-reaching repercussions for many others. It is rather like throwing a stone into a pond; the ripples spread and spread.

ALISON WERTHEIMER, A Special Scar

quotations about suicide


Suicide creates a monstrous emotional upsurge of shame and guilt. Everyone participates in feeling responsible and even shamed at knowing the suicidal candidate. If these feelings are not healed the vampire of suicidal death can strike again and again.

LINDA LEE LANDON, Life After Suicide

quotations about suicide


When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves; and all the efforts of courage appear chimerical to dastardly minds ... Nevertheless, how many instances are there, well attested, of men, in every other respect perfectly discreet, who, without remorse, rage, or despair, have quitted life for no other reason than because it was a burden to them, and have died with more composure than they lived?

DAVID HUME, Essays on Suicide and the Immortality of the Soul

quotations about suicide

Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment -- a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to answer. The question is this: What change will death produce in a man’s existence and in his insight into the nature of things? It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.

ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER, Parerga and Paralipomena

quotations about suicide


If suicide is allowed then everything is allowed. If anything is not allowed then suicide is not allowed. This throws a light on the nature of ethics, for suicide is, so to speak, the elementary sin. And when one investigates it it is like investigating mercury vapour in order to comprehend the nature of vapours.

LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN, Notebooks

I'm not disparaging suicides when I call them weak, I'm pointing out that anybody who would consider doing a thing like that needs help. I don't think a normal, mentally healthy person commits suicide.

JESSE VENTURA, I Ain't Got Time to Bleed

From the perspective of the one committing suicide, his or her act can be one of the most perverse forms of moral manipulation, as it abandons those left behind to their shame, guilt, and grief. Suicide is something like a metaphysical "I gotcha!" It is often an attempt to kill or wound others.

STANLEY HAUERWAS, The Hauerwas Reader

quotations about suicide


Suicide is the dumbest possible way of getting revenge. Why is that? Because the people you want to strike back at are the very same folks who won't even remember you a week after you're gone, while the people you want to spare most -- the people who love you -- are the ones who will have to live with the pain of your suicide for the rest of their lives.

DAVID J. LIEBERMAN, Instant Analysis

You realize that suicide's a criminal offense -- In less enlightened times they'd have hung you for it.

PETER COOK, Bedazzled

If a person with multiple personalities threatens suicide, is that considered a hostage situation?

STEVEN WRIGHT, stand-up routine