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sickbag
Joined: 10 Jan 2005
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Location: Blighty
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| Guy Courchesne wrote: |
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Vicente Fernandez - the ONLY Mexican music I can stomach - and it's very good.
Tacos alambre |
And the son, Alejandro? I think he's a pretty decent mariachi. |
Haven't listened to him but I gather he's pretty similar to his father. I'll give him a try.
Another pleasure:
Corralejo tequila |
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thelmadatter
Joined: 31 Mar 2003
Posts: 1212
Location: in el Distrito Federal x fin!
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| Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 7:42 pm Post subject: Garibaldi |
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About more risque pleasures...perhaps we should ask Guy or FreddyM about the ladies of Garibaldi (yes, I was there there too, but women just dont do it for me for some reason so I cant really be a judge of "pleasure" in this case  ) |
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kitkat1
Joined: 17 Jan 2006
Posts: 37
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| Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 8:04 pm Post subject: |
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Huaraches (the food, not shoes!)
Sopes
Horchata
All the fruit drinks
Hot chocolate and conchas
Handicrafts/Beautiful artwork
Silver Jewelry
The sandals in Cuernavaca for $4.00 US
Oh I could go on and on |
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MikeySaid
Joined: 10 Nov 2004
Posts: 509
Location: Torreon, Mexico
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| Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 8:08 pm Post subject: |
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| kitkat1 wrote: |
Huaraches (the food, not shoes!)
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Thankyou for reminding me of the Sopes I had in DF (colonia euzkadi i think?)...
Delicious perfection.
Sidenote: Best pizza I've ever had was in Puerto Escondido. Wasn't Mexican at all... I think the owner of the restaurant was Italian... but it was pesto, anchioves, and feta (i think)... sooo good.
I miss PE. |
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Guy Courchesne
Joined: 10 Mar 2003
Posts: 9650
Location: Mexico City
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| Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 8:26 pm Post subject: Re: Garibaldi |
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| thelmadatter wrote: |
| About more risque pleasures...perhaps we should ask Guy or FreddyM about the ladies of Garibaldi (yes, I was there there too, but women just dont do it for me for some reason so I cant really be a judge of "pleasure" in this case ) |
Now, now, I was merely the guide...a sort of designated driver on that spiritual journey. Each of you chose your own debaucherous path, where you forever earned your nicknames of The Grip, The Grin, and Undercover. |
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ls650
Joined: 10 May 2003
Posts: 3484
Location: British Columbia
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| Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 9:28 pm Post subject: |
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| I should also add that I'm highly amused by getting yelled at on the streets... |
What are the people yelling at you? |
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danielita
Joined: 06 Mar 2006
Posts: 281
Location: SLP
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| Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 10:52 pm Post subject: |
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mine are...
churros con cajeta or chocolate
tacos al pastor
palomas
pozole verde
nieve
300 days of sunshine
the beach
huachinango asado
limonada con agua mineral
Bonice
all the fresh fruit |
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delacosta
Joined: 14 Apr 2004
Posts: 325
Location: zipolte beach
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| Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 11:21 pm Post subject: |
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Blissful pleasures, huh?
One of my cousins accuses me of living a minimalist lifestyle in Mexico. I'm not sure if that's true and/or blissful, but here are some things on my list:
I think there's a definite connection between living a minimalist lifestyle and being able to appreciate blissful pleasures. I'm all for both of them!
Funny how it appears that everyone loves Mexicn food so much, how the concept of food an pleasure are so linked here. Whenever I talk to Mexicans who`ve come back from the other side they all mention how much they missed the food.
So the other day I had a food related blissful experience, and I was even musing as such as I lay in the hammock,slowly digesting and rocking in the cool ocean breeze, the scent of gardenias drifting by...
The ulitmate simple delicous lunch: black bean soup (cooked with a few laurel leaves, lots of garlic, a large onion quartered, generous dolops of that fresh real honey you get here, a few squirts of salsa inglesa and red wine vinegar, a bit of olive oil and the secret ingredient: valentina hot sauce, a much as you want!)
Serve with fresh crumbled cheese-I get the kind that comes wrapped in a corn husk, so yummy and freshly baked bread for dipping in the broth.
For a side dish, and i just discovered this a while ago: baked plantain. It's best to use really ripe plantain, like it looks like its pretty much rotten, inside it will be very mushy and soft. Bake the plantain at medium high with skin and all for about 20 minutes, or untill the flesh starts to burst through the peel. It will start to caramelize and gets a bit hard. Now it can be fried if you wish for that slightly burnt flavour but its great as is. My wife likes to slice it up and mix in with the beans for a kind of Brazilian effect.
As far as risque pleasures go I'd have to say ogling the lovely se�oritas who are proud to display their femininity, fairly bursting at the seams as it were... |
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TheLongWayHome
Joined: 07 Jun 2006
Posts: 1016
Location: San Luis Piojosi
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Tunas
Chilorio - what is in that?
Anything in a taco
Tacos Potosinos
Abuelita hot chocolate
Atole
Champurrado
Horchata
A good cocina economica
Pi�a miel
Chicozapotes
Chilaquiles rojos |
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saraswati
Joined: 30 Mar 2004
Posts: 200
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| Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 12:56 pm Post subject: |
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Tlayudas
Quesillo
Queso doble crema
Frijol negro (Oaxaca)
Frijol colorado (Chiapas)
Corn tortillas
Nieve de leche quemada
Rajas con crema |
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MELEE
Joined: 22 Jan 2003
Posts: 2583
Location: The Mexican Hinterland
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| Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 2:22 pm Post subject: |
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mine are...
Bonice
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Abuelita hot chocolate
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You two have been taken in. If you like Bonice, you have to try the real thing, real mom and pop bolis. Bonice are just a cheap corporate immitation of bolis. Same goes with the Abuelita stuff. Nestle can make acceptable chocolate, but do you think they can make hot chocolate that compares to that made in a family run molino who've have been making it for countless generations? You have to seek out the real thing, then you will know bliss.  |
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MELEE
Joined: 22 Jan 2003
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Location: The Mexican Hinterland
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| Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 2:29 pm Post subject: |
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| [For a side dish, and i just discovered this a while ago: baked plantain. |
Or try it as a desert. With chocholate, cajeta, cream, or condensed milk, smothered on top.
If you don't have an oven, you can roast them on the comal turning every so often until most of the peel is black, like you would a chile. I perfer to use the planantos machos, the short squat orangy-red ones. |
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MikeySaid
Joined: 10 Nov 2004
Posts: 509
Location: Torreon, Mexico
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| Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 5:24 pm Post subject: |
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| MELEE wrote: |
| If you like Bonice, you have to try the real thing, real mom and pop bolis. Bonice are just a cheap corporate immitation of bolis. Same goes with the Abuelita stuff. Nestle can make acceptable chocolate, but do you think they can make hot chocolate that compares to that made in a family run molino who've have been making it for countless generations? You have to seek out the real thing, then you will know bliss. 8) |
Nobody's said anything about champurrado or atole...
If you want good hot chocolate... go buy a molinillo (sp?) ... it's the mixing stick... (http://www.gourmetsleuth.com/Images/oaxmol2sm.jpg)... makes your drinks nice and frothy... if ya like that sort of thing....
melee, you're the one with the mexican husband right?
i wonder how many efl'ers end up with 'foreign' spouses or end up in ltr's with people from countries other than their own. I ask this simply because a friend of mine just spent a year in italy and only dated other american expats. I thought it was rather odd... as I would have probably sacrificed my studies in pursuit of Italian girls.
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Guy Courchesne
Joined: 10 Mar 2003
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Location: Mexico City
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| Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 5:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Can't speak for the rest of Mexico, but it seems a little more than half of the foreign-born teachers I've come in contact with over the last 2 years in DF have Mexican partners. Add me to that group too. |
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cscx
Joined: 21 Sep 2006
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| I should also add that I'm highly amused by getting yelled at on the streets... |
What are the people yelling at you? |
the usual "hey gringa!" and assorted pick-up lines and compliments.  One time, I was walking, and this guy on a motorcycle passed me, paused, looked at me, revved his engine, and then continued on his way. I just think it's really entertaining. |
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