Text 28096, 136 rader
Skriven 2012-08-10 20:20:39 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 28076 av Dave Drum (1:261/38)
Ärende: Mexican                                                  [1]
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Hi Dave,

 RH> decided to try a little Mexican restaurant where we were. Food was
 RH> good, not super duper great but much better than Taco Bell. The
 RH> put us over what we would have spent at the chain place but this was
 RH> fresher & better; we might make it back before we leave the area.

 DD> We have a good variety of Mexican joints here - not counting Taco Bell
 DD> good. The first one to come to town several years ago, Xocimilico
 DD> (www.xochimilcorestaurant.com/) was good enough that Chi-Chi's left

 RH> Haven't heard of that one but they do sound good. Have you tried On the
 RH> Border? My brother in law took me to one in AZ, then I went another
 RH> time with Steve and Rachel. Wasn't disappointed either time.

 DD> I went and looked at their web site. The nearest stores to me are
 DD> Chicago (where I go only if landing at their aerodrome, changing

Thought you lived in a big enough place to have one local. I think our
nearest one is in Raleigh. There are several non chain Mexican places
in/around Wake Forest so we usually hit up one of them.


 DD> town and they eventually pulled down their building to build an MCL
 DD> Cafeteria on the site.

 RH> So what's an MCL Cafeteria?

 DD> http://www.mclhomemade.com/ourstory_history.cfm

 DD> I've eaten there a couple of times. It's a place my grandmother would
 DD> have adored. Or the Red Hat Ladies. The food is OK - but, I did quite
 DD> enough cafeteria style dining in high school and in the service to
 DD> more than last me for the rest of my life. Except for a nostalgic
 DD> visit to a Horn & Hardart if I ever get back to Noo Yawk Siddy and
 DD> there is one still in existence.

There's a very (!) popular cafeteria here in town. Their specialty is
southern cooking; not the most calory free. (G) They do a brisk business
on Sunday but a steady one the rest of the week as well. Nice thing
about on Sunday is that they do it as a (one time thru) buffet line to
save the time an employee would spend dishing up the food and handing it
to you. The line is open on both sides of the steam tables so people
move thru at a good pace.

 DD> My favourite is Los Agaves (http://www.losagavesspringfield.com/) -
 DD> well, they are back to being my favourite since La Loma folded its

 RH> Haven't heard of either of those either. Found out (after we ate) that
 RH> the place we went to serves hortchata, but as Steve said, with the
 RH> sugar in it, it's now a "no-go" for me. Guess we'll have to try making
 RH> a stevia version.

 DD> tent and skulked off to parts unknown. Los Agaves has a nice lunch
 DD> deal that I particularly like. The Agave Burrito, a pork chunks
 DD> burrito, topped with cheese and pico di gallo and served with refritos
 DD> and arroz. U$5.75 + tax. Since I usually only drink water I can eat
 DD> *real* authentic Mexican for less than the equivalent amount of grub
 DD> would cast me at the Sign of the Chihuahua.

 RH> I'd skip either the beans or rice, more likely the beans. You have more
 RH> of a carb allowance per meal than I do so you could get both; I'd be
 RH> over the limit and then some if I had both. But the burrito does sound
 RH> good.

 DD> I stir them together, dump about half of the on-table salsa on top and
 DD> scoop up the result with the on-table tortilla chips. Then usually
 DD> have a Maruchan Cup-O-Noodles (shrimp) or a handful of cashews for
 DD> supper.

We were at this place for supper so I had to watch the carb count a bit
closer. I'd had a couple of meals in the upper range of the limit so I
wanted to have something less carb heavy. I'm doing well; my next
appointment is on Monday and I think the doctor will be happy with what
she sees.

 DD> but, there. And all tables have a bottle of Tapatio, one of Cholula,
 DD> the two El Yucatecos ... red and green, both habanero based. That is
 DD> what I suspect that was in the place you visited. (www.elyucateco.com)

 RH> I'm pretty sure it was; I've seen them on the table in other Mexican
 RH> places. Just couldn't remember the name. interesting tho, that the
 RH> green is hotter than the red. We went to a little Mexican place outside
 RH> of Las Cruces one time and Steve ordered something with red chilies, I
 RH> ordered something with green. My green chili whatever it was, was
 RH> much(!) hotter than Steve's red. I don't remember if we traded plates
 RH> part way thru or not.

 DD> Oddly the green is noticeably hotter than the red - go figger.

 RH> Generally, but not always, it's the other way around.

 DD> I first learned of that phenomenon in Inglewood, Califunky back in the
 DD> early 1960s. I was in a nice Mexican Restaurant (whose name escapes
 DD> me) and hadn't yet learned that chilli is *NOT* a truly Mexican dish.
 DD> So, I saw chile on the menu - in both rojo and verde versions. Being
 DD> an almost total naif in things Mexican I saw chili ... thought in my
 DD> mind "red is hot, let's go for the green".
 DD> Hooooooo boy, howdy!


Whoops! Figured wrong there, didn't you? (G)

 DD> Shortly (about a week) I continued my education at JB's Little Bali
 DD> and learned some spicy lessons in Indonesian grub. I suppose those two
 DD> visits were, more or less, the start of me becoming a chile-head.

I'm not sure when I started but it was a gradual working up to hot until
we moved to AZ. Even the 2.5 years we lived in TX didn't build our heat
level up too greatly. But, we've enjoyed hot (or medium hot) and spicy
for quite some time now, probably from the first exposure in CA before
we moved to TX.


 DD>       Title: Pork Burritos
 DD>  Categories: Latino, Pork, Chilies, Dairy, Vegetables
 DD>       Yield: 4 Servings

 RH> And low enough carbs for me to have it with a side of rice and a green
 RH> salad.  Now where did I put that pork butt..................

 DD> Bites tongue.  Bv)=

It's in the big freezer, not sure of the exact location but still
currently unaccessable because of everything else that's in there.

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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