Food
The Anthology Of a Santo Domingo Paella – Voila!
Master Paella Maker, Fernando Tapias, buying the ingredients in Santo Domingo, DR.
Laying out the stuff
Lighting the Special Paella Stove
Chicken
+ Pork
+ Fresh Garlic and Onion
+ Red and Green Pepper
+ Rice
+ Fish Stock
+ Baby Octopus, Fish and Scallops
+ Shrimp
+ Another Kind of Shrimp and Clams
+ Mussels
+ Langosta
+ Peas
Cover and Simmer
Voila
How To Make A Paella in Twenty Steps!
My wife and I were invited to the Dominican Republic by our friends Fernando and Lorena Tapias. Fernando is known as a renowned paella chef. The paella is dish which includes yellow rice, chicken, and a variety of sea food, pimentos and peas. You can get it at exclusive Latin restaurants. The dish is expensive and can take an hour to cook, but, oh, is it worth it. We were fortunate that during our brief stay, Fernando cooked for us.
Fernando took us to a supermarket in Santo Domingo, capital of the Dominican Republic. You can notice his purchase. Red and green peppers, a variety of onions, chicken, shrimp, scallops, mini lobsters and seasonings. Yum!
When we got back to his apartment, Fernando and his daughters got all of the ingredients in order. The center bottom tray is minced fresh garlic
Fernando and his family lived in a beautiful pent house apartment overlooking the city of Santo Domingo. It was beautiful site, overlooking the city at night, while our mouths watered for the paella. In this photo, Fernando lights his paella stove.
The first course of action was to brown the chicken in oil.
Next, Fernando did the same with pork.
This is a combination of onions and garlic browned to perfection.
Fernando browns a combination of red and green peppers.
The master at work, browning, simmering, and blending.
Next, Fernando distributes the raw rice over the dish.
A guest was put to work by smothering the concoction with fish stock.
As the dish simmers Fernando adds baby octopus, fish and scallops. Amazing!
After that, Fernando adds shrimp.
Next, another type of shrimp and clams!
As if this was not enough, Fernando enhances the dish with mussels.
Red and green peppers and longostinas, which are small lobsters.
Now, the famous peas which is the bedrock of a paella.
The master, adjusting the flame to impeccable perfection.
Cover and Simmer
Voila! Such an incredible night of eating. A sumptuous paella, a glass of wine, with great friends on the pent house porch overlooking the beautiful city of Santo Domingo.
There Are Two Ways Of Eating!
Consuming and Devouring
Mr 14:22 And as they did eat, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and brake it, and gave to them, and said, Take, eat, consume, and devour: this is my body.
Joh 6:50 This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat, consume, and devour thereof, and not die.
Joh 6:51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat, consume, and devour of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
Re 2:7 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat, consume, and devour of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.
Re 2:17 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat, consume, and devour of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.
Masticating and Chewing
Joh 6:54 Whoso is masticating, gnawing at, chewing, grinding, and crunching my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
Joh 6:56 He that is masticating, gnawing at, chewing, grinding, and crunching my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.
Joh 6:57 As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that is masticating, gnawing at, chewing, grinding, and crunching me, even he shall live by me.
Joh 6:58 This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that is masticating, gnawing at, chewing, grinding, and crunching of this bread shall live for ever.
The Jose E Alvarez Ultimate Smoothie
In the juicer:
One clove of elephant garlic.
A big piece of raw ginger.
One cucumber.
Three large carrots
One apple
In the blender:
One banana
One peeled grapefruit
Two table spoons red millers’ bran
Half a cup of vanilla yogurt
A bit of milk.
Pour the juice from the juicer into blender that has the rest of the stuff. Drink it with a multivitamin. 
Enjoy!
