Mexican Family Research Paper

When I was a kid, I remember that my grandmother used to make the best chicken stew I had ever tasted. It was the Puerto Rican family recipe. Well that is what she called it. She always made it in this big blue pot with dots all over it. Every time I seen that pot on the stove, I knew right away it was chicken stew day. The stew was filled with all sorts of different vegetables and spices. If I think about it really hard, the stew is a resemblance of me. I have all sorts of different ethnicities and different ways of living, but I still fit into this one big pot that I call family. My family is my cultural identity. When we get together we have family bonding time, all kinds of food, and a lot of dancing. Now, if you have never been to a Puerto Rican party you probably don’t know how much the un average people can eat. I think that I gain at least 50 pounds at my family parties. All of my aunties and uncles love to go all out on food. They make pasteles, gandule rice, flancocho, fried bananas, and many more. There is always all kinds of Puerto Rican food, but it’s not the only type of food we eat. My aunties bring their homemade chow mein and chow fun, and my uncles bring in burgers, steak, sub sandwiches and other American foods. I swear, my eyes are bigger than my stomach at parties. Food in my …show more content…
Every so often me and my family gets together to play games. We play games like monopoly, life, charades, and even games we make on our own. We like to take this time to enjoy the little things with one another. I like to try hard at charades because there is a money prize at the end. Bonding time is crucial to my family. It’s a time where we show our love and express it with fun and exciting games. It’s also another way to be competitive towards each other. I love beating my sisters in monopoly, even though it takes forever to finish a one game. Spending time with the ones you love, isn’t really that