Guava Empanadas, recipe below
As a senior in high school, Latin Americans bodegas in North Tarrytown (now Sleepy Hollow) became my introduction to Hispanic foodways. I became exposed to them while working weekends with my father. By my senior year in high school in 1981, my older brothers were out of the house and my dad and I spent lots of early weekend mornings cleaning offices including Frank’s Fuel. Frank’s lay in an industrial section of Sleepy Hollow on the outskirts of a Hispanic neighborhood. The Hudson river side of town has historically been where immigrants from Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic lived. My dad with give me a couple of bucks to get some food. One day, I found this corner bodega up the street from the entrance to the GM plant that had really great fruit empanadas. They had delicious fruit fillings such as pineapple and my favorite, Guava. I’d buy a couple of empanadas and a carton of orange juice and was good to go. Iberian immigrants introduced empanadas to Caribbean and other parts of the Latin America during the colonial period. It wasn’t long before they became a fixture on family tables across Americas with regional differences based on local ingredients. Here’s a link to a Guava empanada recipe: http://recipes.sparkpeople.com/recipe-detail.asp?recipe=656455
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