empanada, noun:

pasty

Empanadas are a very popular food in Latin America, especially in Argentina and Chile, and the word can be translated roughly as pasty. But empanadas are generally a bit smaller than the British pasty, and the pastry is crisper. The ends of the pastry case are also folded over to make a decorative rim. Typical fillings are carne, pollo, mariscos, choclo, and verduras - beef, chicken, seafood, sweet corn and vegetables.
In Spain, empanada refers to a pie, typically una empanada gallega a sardine or tuna pie.


Empanada pictures and a receipe

hueso, noun:

bone; stone

Like so many words in English and Spanish hueso has two different but conceptually related meanings. It can refer to the bones of a person or animal, or to the stones of fruit and olives.

un corte de carne con hueso
a cut of meat on the bone

aceitunas sin hueso
pitted olives

Remember that hueso does not refer to fish bones. The word for these is espinas:

con las espinas puedes hacer fondos de pescado
with the bones you can make a fish stock


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In Mexico, Central America and hispanic-populated areas of the US, empanadas are often filled with something sweet like pumkin pie filling, pineapple or caramel. They are eaten in the morning with coffee - like Americans eat donuts. They are often baked and some places use whole wheat flour so they are much healthier than donuts. They are pretty much like Hostess fruit pies.

Cielos!

On a more serious note - thanks for the photo. And I look forward to your continued input to help us all know more about not only the language but the culture of Spanish speakers also.

Word: punto
Pronunciation: POON-toh
Meaning: point (most meanings), dot, spot or place, state or condition, a touch
Example: Un visitante me preguntó: "¿Qué puntos de interés puedo visitar mientras esté en la ciudad?"
Translation: A visitor asked me, "What points of interest can I visit while I'm in the city?"

I want one right now

I want one right now, also!

¡Quiero uno ahora, también!

Thanks, Shane, for the word.:)

Puntos de interés: Ciudad de México, México
Places (points) of interest: Mexico City, Mexico.

The Zocalo area,
The Palacio de Bella Artes,
The Plaza do Garibaldi,
Chapultepec Castle
Xochilmilco - like countryside within the city
Teotihuacan - home of the Aztecs - a city 30 miles north of Mexico City

- source of this list: http://www.hotellepanto.com/Epages/travel_mex.html

A big picture of Teotihuacan pyramids.

lunes, noun: Monday

Like other Spanish days of the week, lunes is not written with a capital letter and it is masculine. And like other days of the week ending in ‘-es’, such as martes, the plural of lunes is the same as the singular.

todos los lunes
every Monday

Jugamos los lunes.
We play on Mondays.

To talk about last Monday you use pasado, and to talk about next Monday you use the article and que viene:

el lunes pasado
last Monday

el lunes que viene
next Monday

Notice that in the next example there is no ‘on’ in Spanish:

La vi el lunes.
I saw her on Monday.

It seems English speakers aren’t the only ones who don’t like Mondays. There’s a Latin American expression hacer San Lunes, which means to stay away from work on Monday.


- http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/es/