I'm So Blogging This
Friday evening I learned something new in a New Mexican restaurant, as in, a restaurant specializing in cuisine from the state of New Mexico. In New Mexico apparently, people eat the same damned thing they eat in Mexico, except that they put fried eggs on top. No shit, enchiladas with fried egg on it.
Here I thought I was going to experience something exotic and new, and there are fajitas and burritos on the menu. The whole fried egg thing wasn't even on the menu, by the way. We only found out about it when Alexis, an actual, authentic, and for-real New Mexican ordered her food and said, "could you put a fried egg on that?" The waiter kvelled like you wouldn't believe. He dug Alexis so much, that he gave us these little fried things... I don't remember what they are called, but you put honey on them and eat them with dinner. They are reminiscent of beignets.
At some point during dinner I yelled, "I'm so blogging this," but now I don't remember what I thought was worth sharing. I was still on my first (terrible) margarita, so don't blame the alcohol.
Unless of course, it was Chris and Amy's new Roomba? It was indeed a topic of conversation for the entire evening.
Hmmm... it couldn't have been the cab driver who tried to convince me that a keypad he had hanging from his rearview mirror was a GPS device. No, it wasn't that, because I made this declaration in the restaurant.
But hey. I said I would blog about dinner, and I did.
But since I blurted it, I'm doing it. I'm a woman of my word.
Edited 1/16 to fix that little error Lily found.
3 Comments:
A woman of your wo? I don't think we need to hear about that, missy.
See, I thought the punchline was going to be that it wasn't a New Mexican restaurant, but a Mexican restaurant that was new.
Michelle, I'd love to take credit for the sopapillas("little fried things"), but they actually come with every meal.
And to get super-anal, it's actually the red & green chile that distinguishes New Mexican food from tex-mex and the other bastardizations. We have a chile named after our state because we are so damn special.
Alexis
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