An Unforgettable Thanksgiving (final Draft)


Every Thanksgiving since I could remember my mom and grandma made Red Pork Chili. Since I was a kid a lot has changed. When I was young my family would get together for Thanksgiving my mom and grandma would usually do the cooking. About 15 years ago my grandma moved to New Mexico and my family didn’t get together for Thanksgiving anymore. Everyone was getting older and all of my auntie’s and uncle’s kids were grown up and they had families. So all my mom’s brother’s and sister’s did their own things for Thanksgiving. My mom and dad got divorced so usually it was just my brother, my mom, and me but my mom still cooked and made the Red Chili for Thanksgiving.
Well this past Thanksgiving my mom invited me my nina, nino, auntie, my brother, his lady, her kids, and one of my friends I knew since I was a kid . I was looking forward to this because it was the first time in years that this much of my family got together for Thanksgiving.
Well Thanksgiving morning my brother went to my mom’s to drop off his lady and her kids. My brother came to pick me, my auntie, and friend up to take us to my mom’s. On the way over there we came to a stop sign and my brother came to a complete stop (or at least I think he did) so we made a turn on the next street. Well all of the sudden we seen flashing lights my brother said “are they pulling us over” and sure enough the cop pulled us over. He came to the car and asked us for are Id.’s. Well my brother and I got are Id.’s. We gave them to the cop but my friend and auntie didn’t have their Id.’s plus both of them had warrants out for their arrest.
My auntie said to us “I’m going to jail” and she was mad because out of all the days it had to be Thanksgiving she was going to go to jail. My friend told us “just say I’m Marco” (Marco’s my friends brother) so I don’t go to jail. So the cop went back to his car ran all of a our name’s and called another cop to come. When the other cop got there they both got out of their cars and came to our car, one on the left side of the car, the other on the right side of the car. One of the cops said “Mr. Rodregez please step out of the car” the other cop said “Ms. Montoya please step out of the car” so both of them got out. The cops put handcuffs on both of them, one cop took my auntie to his car put her in it. Then he came to our car and said “she is going to jail”. The other cop told us “Mr. Rodregez has a warrant out of New Mexico so were just waiting for the Albuquerque Police Department to call us back that way we know what to do with him, if they don’t call back in 15 minutes we’ll let him go”. So we waited for the Albuquerque PD. To call back, they never did so the cops let my friend go. So my brother, my friend, and I went to my mom’s and ate dinner. Later on my nino and nina came, so I went with them to get my auntie out of jail. After that we all went to my mom’s and ate diner as a family this time.

Ingredients:
2 lbs. of pork
¼ tsp. salt
1 tsp. garlic salt
4 tbsp. oil
2 tbsp. flour
8-10 chili pods from ristras
Rinse the chili pods and take the stems and seeds out. Put the chili pods in 4 cups steaming hot water and let sit about 30 min. then blend. Add oil to pan and brown pork. When pork is done add the flour and cook till brown. Then add 4 cups cold water bring to a boil. Then add the blended chili pods, bring back to a boil add salt and garlic salt then simmer about 20 minutes.