Week 11: Mexico

Hello Mexico and all our Mexican buddies south of the border! Mexico is the most populous Spanish speaking country in the world. Our neighbors introduced the world to chocolate (¡Hola Mexico! where have you been all my life?) and giant bumble bee costumes. Mexico City, the capitol, was once a mountain lake and the home of the Aztecs who later founded a popular family style Mexican restaurant chain. The city is sinking 6-8 inches per year and many inhabitants overcompensate with high heel boots and super tall sombreros.

This week we wanted to make Huevos con Dios but had trouble finding the ingredients. So instead we made fish tacos with homemade tortillas (one of which was in the shape of a storm trooper, no joke).

Homemade Tortillas

• 3 cups flour
• 2 tsp. baking soda
• 1 tsp. salt
• 4 Tb. margarine or shortening
• 1 1/4 cup warm water

We cut the cold margarine into the dry ingredients with a pastry blender. Then stirred in the water until a sticky dough was formed and then briefly kneaded. This was divided it in half and we further divided one half into 5 balls and the other have into 10 balls, making 10 small and 5 large tortillas. These were allowed to rest while the skillet was heated to medium high. We then rolled them into to very thin circles and cooked them on the skillet. They cook very quickly and need to be flipped. You should get a little browning on the raised spots.



Taco Filling

• tilapia fillets, broiled
• thinly sliced green cabbage
• pico de gallo (gracias, Whole Foods)
• homemade guacamole (gracias, Emilie)
• fresh chopped cilantro
• lime juice

Of course, we complemented all this with some delicious margaritas! Olé!

• 1 shot (a jigger) tequila
• 1/2 oz triple sec
• juice of half a lime

Shake all this up in a cocktail shaker with cracked ice. Then strain into a chilled with a salted rim (coarse kosher salt works well for this) and filled with ice.

Muy Bueno! Did we mention ¡Miguel! (Michael) is learning Spanish?

¡Que mi perro tiene dinero! Por favor, no me secuestran. Tengo diarrea.