now lets talk food...

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so you get mexico in stages...if you stay in large resort towns, you get a very milktoast version of mexican food...the farther you get from other white folks...the more mexican it gets...i love tacos...and real tacos are artistic simplicity...three to an order...unless you are buying them from a cart outside a bar...the hand made tortilla...always corn...and about three inches around...is heated slightly on a flattop or griddle...a little protein...my favorite...arrachera..marinated flank steak cut into little ribbons...or my second choice chorizo...spicy dried sausage...in mexico alot like peperonni...only mucho caliente..add a little lettuce...some onion...possibly cilantro...squeeze of lime...and salsa picante...now this sauce varies like an italian mothers red gravy...each place a little different...from brown made with maggi to red with tomatoes...and then there is por hombres...a crushed habanero...dusted with sea salt and the juice of one lime...simple lightning...we were on an island so the tacos pescado were fresh and delicious...not so- cal style with cabbage...no cabbage in the yucatan...but delicious none the less...we had whole fried fish...snapper...with all the trimmings...relanos(sp) different everywhere we went...goat in a sweet hot mole...cerviches were plentiful...shrimp and squid were our favorites...
and then there is the guac...
served everywhere...even in the tiniest of places...it is simply why the beautiful girl goes to mexico...the chips are always freshly fried and the guacamole itself is different in every joint...some have tomatoes, onions cilantro...and in one place i swear the cook held the avocado over the bowl and squeezed...it had the pit in the middle with some lime and salt...perfection...

now you might ask ...do i get sick..eating with the locals...well yeah occasionally...and there was the pernicious parasita i picked up in Valladolid...i think it was the candied papaya...in a clear sugary water...but mostly no...and they make a pill for most of what you catch...so i just eat what looks good...but there are two things that i always forget until after i order them...the first...croquettes are only made correctly in northern europe...in mexico they are fish stick and chicken nuggets...and secondly mexican sausages are hot dogs...ewww

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  1. Jessica GAugust 1, 2010 at 6:17 PM

    Thanks to the suggestions by you and Teddy, Kevin and I had several different types of croquettes in France! Thanks for the suggestion :)

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