You would have thought it was Thanksgiving week the way I've spent a good chunk of nap time today looking over recipes and Pinterest and making a shopping list. I also made a small sample size recipe to test something out. I super love just about all Thanksgiving foods and consider the group of them to be on my top 10 favorite foods list. Not that I've ever really had a list... : )
But no. Thanksgiving will have to wait a while until it's getting cold again and we go back to leafless trees. And really, after living in a place of practically perpetual summer, this girl is already wrinkling her nose at the thought of next year's winter. ("But this year it was so mild!" they've told me. And, "Just wait until it really snows more next year," they say.) Now that we're back to leaves on the trees my soul feels lighter. Green is good! At least winter brings Thanksgiving food : )
What a tangent! Anyway, this week we're taking advantage of our American right to celebrate Cinco de Mayo with our southern neighbors! I enjoy cultural things from other countries, but I especially love the excuse to eat the food. Mexican, or American Mexican, is also on my top 10 favorite foods list. Guacamole, salsa, chips, cheese, etc! I like to take the opportunity to make a tres leches cake and I plan to make horchata.
How fun it would be to listen to a live mariachi band like we got lucky to hear in Balboa Park last summer or to see some dancers with those pretty dresses that I love... I suppose we could have a pinata, but since I'm also making food for the ward chili dinner/YW camp fundraiser the next night, likely not. Perhaps we will watch one of those old south of the border specials - The Three Caballeros or Saludos Amigos! I'm pretty sure I've blogged in years past about how I got Will to watch them with me years ago when we were dating, probably for Cinco de Mayo... what a good sport! That's how I knew he was the one... ha : ) Actually, it couldn't have been then - must have been earlier. I remember specifically that he was gone to New Mexico and I had made a tres leches to share with my roommates and begrudgingly shared some with one of Will's former roommates who had come by for some reason. Cake? (I had known this guy actually longer than Will and he'd just about used up all his extraneous-goodwill-from-Ashley cards for things like eating my precious tres leches.... he had probably used them up before I'd even met Will.... haha...)
Anyway. We've been missing taquerias from California, so this will have to do for now. And you can't go wrong with horchata and tres leches.... and chips and salsa and guacamole and cilantro!! Unless you're Will.... then you give all your cilantro to meeee! :
"Salsa is now the number one condiment in America. Do you know why? Because people like to say 'salsa!'"
I broke down and bought some frozen mini tacos at Costco this year for Cinco de Mayo. They weren't too bad with canned refried beans and leftover rice, chips and salsa. No cilantro here this year! I remember it was very hard to find any Mexican food in New Jersey thirty years ago . . . .
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