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Wow! What’s that smell? It smells like an apple pie, smells very good, but wait, I can smell something else, it smells like a pumpkin pie, oh god this is going to be a good Christmas day. Every holyday, every birthday, every commemorative day, my grandma, my mother and my aunts cook and bake many different things. When the winter arrives, my grandma always prepares some “Abuelita” chocolate, she bakes some empanadas with different fillings, with pumpkin, apple, milk caramel, pineapple, and some sugar cookies. When it is Christmas or New Year’s Eve, my family reunites to cook many tasteful dishes, tamales, turkey, smashed potatoes, gorditas, flautas, and many more food, but the best food in New Year’s Eve is buñuelos, and everyone loves them. But in summer, everything changes, my grandmother prepares mangonadas, we eat whenever we visit her. Sometimes she prepares capirotada or rice with milk. Sometimes I help my grandma making tamales, first we prepare de paste, then we spread the paste over corn leaves, then we fill them with beans, chicken meat, with cheese and chile, and with, sugar and pasas. I also like to help her doing cookies, we first prepare the paste, then we use some shape cutters to give them shapes like triangles, circles, stars, hearts, and many more. Then we put them in the oven and at the end while they are still hot we spread sugar over them. When we make buñuelos and empanadas its almost the same process, we first prepare the paste, then we make like a tortilla, for the buñuelos we make holes on it with the fork and we put them on the oven, and finally we spread sugar on them, but for the buñuelos, we add the jelly you want, we sometimes we use apple jelly, or pineapple jelly, then we bend it like a taco, then we proceed to make holes with the fork on the empanada to make it able of releasing air when it is on the oven. Since I remember we’ve done the same thing every year, every month, every holyday. But we’ll never get tired of it, we’ll always gather to make empanadas, we’ll always gather to make tamales, we’ll always gather for everything, but there’s one thing we will never do: stop gathering every week, every month, every year, although we don’t gather very often, we will always gather again, to cook, to bake, to spend time together, to enjoy grandma’s stories, and if you don’t do this with your family, what have you done in your life?