Tacos - The Real Thing
I promised I´d do a post on Mexican food, but there´s so much to say it´s going to be more than one post I think. I´ll start with our dinner out tonight at one of our favourite places in town, a taco joint close to our house.
Apart from the food (which is awesome - I’ll get to that in a minute) one of the reasons we love this place is that it has a great playground, so instead of the usual struggle to keep the kids sitting quietly at the table in a restaurant (like that´s ever going to happen) Guerita can flit happily from the table to the playground and back again.
We often run into people we know there since its close to home and to Guerita´s school. Everyone with young kids loves this place. It´s an outdoor venue but still a permanent structure, unlike a lot of mobile taco vans you see around town. The kitchen is a large open air grill where they cook the fresh carne asada (grilled meat) - the menu consists of different forms of meat tacos, so no joy if you´re vegetarian. The tables are outside under a roof, which is slightly chilly in winter but beautiful in summer when the temp has dropped ever so slightly at night time. We eat at picnic tables with vinyl tablecloths and the plates are disposable (sorry, environment). 5-star it´s not but with food this good, who cares?
So, the food. That´s what you really want to know about, right? It´s all tacos, tacos, tacos and if you´re on a diet, you don´t want to eat here. A real taco is nothing like the hard shell, mince filled numbers back home. In Mexico, they are made with soft flour tortillas and the most tender strips of meat. We live in cattle country so the steak here is FANTASTIC.
Once you get your tacos you pile it high with condiments from the salad bar
Clockwise, from top left - radishes, limes, guacamole, pickled onions, salsa casera (the house salsa), salsa bandera (bandera means flag in Spanish - this salsa is made with chili, onion and coriander for the colours of the Mexican flag), cucumber and cabbage, plus a couple of extras like spring onions, and few more spicier salsas.
The end result
To go with the tacos we often have Quesadillas (grilled tortillas filled with melted cheese)
(again, no dieting allowed!)
And my favourite from the salad bar - cucumbers with Aderezo Cilantro (Coriander Dressing made with cream, coriander, capsicum and a few other things…)
I have to find a recipe for this dressing. It is unbelievably yummy.
And can you guess how much this meal cost (tacos, quesadillas and soft drinks for us all)?
$25 !!!!
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Oh my god I am drooling. I do not eat tacos often, more a chimichanga or fajitas man, but those look awesome. Given that I am on the fitness kick l am glad I am in Sydney and not Mexico, else I would be there!
There is no substitute for REAL Mexican food. I miss it MUCH since moving to Canada!
I have to admit that I’m not all that keen on different food tastes. Which I guess is why you’re roaming and I’m home.
It is interesting to read about though.
Yum, that looks and sounds wonderful! I need some of that!
The price too! Wow! Imagine, I could take all the kidlets out for next to nothing.
I can see why you love the taco place.
I love it and I have never been there!!!!!
Oh babe. OMG. That looks AWESOME!!!
We had a fantastic Mexican joint here. Run by a Mexican chick and all her relatives that she smuggled over from Mexico (I am not joking!) but she disappeared - methinks the govt got wind of her - and a Chinese couple took over……. and turned it into a Chinese Mexican restaurant. Bletch.
This makes me miss Eldima even MORE!
YUMMMM, that food looks magnificent :).
Y’know, read this post, then Kelley’s chocolate orgasmic post for sweets and it’s like a full meal lol.
They definitely are extremely yummy and cheap. Not so good for the waistline when we have this easy option!
ShadowKnight - sorry, probably not the best thing to see when you´re trying to watch the diet. Get back to those homegrown veggies!
Kelley - Chinese Mexican??? Does not sound great. Shame the real deal disappeared. We haven´t had Chinese here - we´ve been told its a recipe for food poisoning so it´ll be first stop when we get home. (The good stuff though, not food hall crap
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Jayne - classic! I read Kelley´s post too and felt the need to eat chocolate straight away!
it´s amazing how cheaply a family can eat out in Mexico!
God - YUMMM !!
( P.S. - how do you add that gorgeous ‘personal touch’ signature at the end of your posts ? )
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Hey H & B, It’s an image that I made in photoshop. I downloaded a fancy handwriting font from http://www.dafont.com and made a png image (that way you get a transparent background) with a text box in it. (Doing it as an image ensures that it looks the same for everyone) Then upload the image and insert into the end of the post. I’m trying to work out how to put it in the template now, coz I keep forgetting to put it in at the end! Let me know if you want more detailed instructions.
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