Mexican food

[Dixie]

Outside Mexico, when we hear about the term Mexican food we associate it inmediately to one adjective: SPICY. Many so-called Mexican restaurants are opening in Catalunya, they are becoming really popular. I was in a Mexican restaurant once, 7 years ago. We must have ordered the spiciest dish, since we kept on drinking water! Oh I forgot, I was in the Mexican restaurant in Port Aventura many years ago and we ate Guacamole. Well, I didn't actually taste it, that green sauce didn't look edible to me... I ate the Doritos instead :D

OK my question is, is Mexican food always so spicy, or is it just a small characteristic of that food that, despite, has become really popular abroad?

Elba, can you introduce us to some typical Mexican dishes?

[who]

in México is very usual the spicy food, but is not always like that.

Also, the next time you visit a Mexican restaurant try the guacamole, you're going to love it!

Note: For expert English speakers, please correct my messages if I write any mistake

[Elba]

Mexican food is knowing as a spicy, hot, fat, etc. But is a fact that our dishes are very delicious and can be prepared without any spicy and get the same flavor and be as delicious as if we include chili.
What happen dear Dixie is that at foreing country people only copy the recipies but they don´t have good (Paladar) to prepare the food, and they transform our dishes.
Example: "Doritos" that´s wrong, Doritos is the name an american company gave to a snake made by "tortilla", that company use to do "Doritos" in an industrial way, with american cheese flavor or some varieties of the original "totopo".
Did you understand? Dorito and Totopo are the same, but the first in industrial, the second is original.
Totopo is made by tortilla, is a little piece of tortilla fry with any flavor and is used as snack, as Doritos. Example you can´t eat Doritos and Guacamole. Blaj Blaj, that would be terrible flavor. Is better Totopos and Guacamole.
Guacamole is only avocado with lemon, salt, Chili (at México). If it is Guacamole Ranch, then add onion and tomato.
In the same way they transform our recipies, they exagerate in the spicy, then the food is terrible for your stomach.
Remember that At Mexico there are too many children and children can´t eat spicy. They get the custum step by step, and there are too much people with Gastritis, then they can´t eat spicy food, but they are mexicans, and they like our food, then the way is not to use hot flavor.
In my next messages I will try to give you some advices to order in mexican restaurans, with any problem of spicy food.
Sorry but now I´m a little busy at office.

[Dixie]

So, how do you make totopo? You said with tortilla, that's omelette. So totopo is made with eggs, what else?

[Cypress]

So, how do you make totopo? You said with tortilla, that's omelette. So totopo is made with eggs, what else?

No, Dixie, tortilla is an omelet in Spain, but not in Mexico (or US 'cause we have a lot of Mexican food here as well). Here tortilla is a special kind of bread, very flat and made of corn flour. People use it to make tacos and enchiladas.

[Elba]

Yeah Dixie.

Tortilla is flat, made of corn and delicious. A kind of bread, we eat them all days:morning, middle day and night, That means: breakfast, lunch and dinner,as a snack too. Tortillas are cheap. a kilogram cost 6.00 pesos, a little more than middle dollar. and a kilogram are almost 15 tortillas. Every tortilla has 30 kcal and people -acording with nutrisionist- only must to eat one or two with meal, but mexican families -almost 4 members by family use to buy a kilogram and eat them until lunch and dinner.

[Elba]

those are tortillas

those are totopos

those are tacos

Any question?

[Elba]

Bad links. I couldn´t do it. Well you can see:

http://www.globalgourmet.com/food/speci ... illas.html

[Dixie]

Thank you Cypress and Elba. I had no idea! Is it that thing you use to wrap burritos?

[Elba]

¡Yeah! You´ve got it!

Particulary I don´t like forein people prepare mexican food, because they transform the original recipie and make it wrong.
Is like in Mexico. I don´t like to eat hot dogs, because here people prepare hot dogs with tomato, union, chily, mustard, mayones and catsup souce, very different from the hot dogs at USA.