Name: Peteles
Ingredients: 2 lb Pork butt; 1/2 bn Green onions; chopped; 1 bn Cilantro; chopped fine; 3 Stalks celery; chopped fine with leaves; 6 Cloves garlic; diced; 1/2 ts Grated ginger; 1 ts Oregano; Salt to taste; 16 oz Tomato sauce; 1 c Salad oil; 1/4 c Achote (lipstick plant); 15 Green bananas; 2 Medium sized potatoes; Salt to taste; Achote oil; 1 cn Ripe olives; Chili pepper (optional)

In the process of striving to fulfill our needs and satisfy our desires, the church has slipped into a philosophy of “Christian humanism” that is flawed with self-love, self-esteem, self-fulfillment, and self-glory. There appears to be scant concern about worshiping our glorious God on His terms. So-called worship seems little more than some liturgy (high or low) equated with stained-glass windows, organ music, or emotion-filled songs and prayers. If the bulletin didn’t say “Worship Service,” maybe we wouldn’t know what we were supposed to be doing. And that reflects the absence of a worshiping life- of which a Sunday service is to be only a corporate overflow.

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CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
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INGREDIENTS

2	lb	Pork butt
1/2	bn	Green onions; chopped
1	bn	Cilantro; chopped fine
3		Stalks celery; chopped fine with leaves
6		Cloves garlic; diced
1/2	ts	Grated ginger
1	ts	Oregano
		Salt to taste
16	oz	Tomato sauce
1	c	Salad oil
1/4	c	Achote (lipstick plant)
15		Green bananas
2		Medium sized potatoes
		Salt to taste
		Achote oil
1	cn	Ripe olives
		Chili pepper (optional)

INSTRUCTIONS

BANANA MIXTURE
Remove achote seeds from pot. Fry in hot oil unti oil turns yellow. Strain
and remove seeds. Use half of this oil for pork.
Take banana or ti leaves and drop into a pot of hot water about 5 minutes
to soften leaves making it pliable. Wipe leaves.
Soak unpeeled bananas in hot water for 1/2 hur. Cut off 2 ends and slice in
the center and remove peel. Prepare two quarts water in a bowl with 1
tablespoon salt. Peel bananas, drop into water while peeling the rest of
the bananas. Grate the bananas fine by hand. Peel potaotes and grate fine.
Add to banana. Add remaining oil, salt to taste and some of the oil from
the pork. Stir unti blended.
Dice pork thin. Add 1/2 cup achote oil and stir fry pork. Add green onions,
cilantro, celery, garlic, ginger, oregano, salt and tomato sauce. Simmer
until pork is tender; about 1 hour.
Lay leaf flat; with a spoon, smear leaf with oil from the pork mixture.
Now, take 2 tablespoon banana mixture and place on oiled leaf. Flatten to
about 6 inches by 3 inches. Take 2 tablespoons pork mixture and lay it on
top of the banana mixture down the middle lengthwise. Add 1 olive in the
center and sprinkle with chili pepper if you want a spicy hot patele. Fold
ends of leaf lengthwise toward mixture. Fold top and bottom ends of leaf
overlapping each other if you need to, and secure with string.
Arrange pateles on top of each other in a pot. Cover with salted hot water
and bring to a boil. Lower heat and simmer for 1 hour making sure that
pateles are always covered with water while cooking. Miriam Kala'i Kula '53
From: Kamehameha Alumni Association Cookbook Formatted by: Dorie Villarreal
From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini

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