Oaxaca, Mex. Blog#6.....An Unforgettable Meal......
As the day turned from hot to hotter, we were informed there was going to be a meal served to us in a hour or so.
I'd like you to picture a small two room adobe brick home. You enter into the larger of the two rooms, there is a short wooden counter with a double electric hotplate and a few modest cooking utensils. On the back wall just opposite of the door there are about 20-30 sacks filled with coffee still in parchment. The floor is hard dirt that's swept clean, with a wooden table in the center. By and by a few small chickens would run between and around our feet.
The meal of chicken and hominy covered in mol'e sauce was served around the small wooden table. About 5 minutes into the meal a warm cloth with fresh stone ground corn tortillas was brought to the table. One of the ladies told us fresh mushrooms with mol'e would be coming in just a few more minutes as well.
The meal was incredible. This food was as good as it gets! As I was about halfway through this great food I said, "Whoever is married to the ladies that prepared this meal are very lucky men." What came back was unexpected, one of the ladies said, " Most of us have not seen our husbands in years, they are all up north in America".
Sobering.....
More to come,
The CoffeeMariner
I'd like you to picture a small two room adobe brick home. You enter into the larger of the two rooms, there is a short wooden counter with a double electric hotplate and a few modest cooking utensils. On the back wall just opposite of the door there are about 20-30 sacks filled with coffee still in parchment. The floor is hard dirt that's swept clean, with a wooden table in the center. By and by a few small chickens would run between and around our feet.
The meal of chicken and hominy covered in mol'e sauce was served around the small wooden table. About 5 minutes into the meal a warm cloth with fresh stone ground corn tortillas was brought to the table. One of the ladies told us fresh mushrooms with mol'e would be coming in just a few more minutes as well.
The meal was incredible. This food was as good as it gets! As I was about halfway through this great food I said, "Whoever is married to the ladies that prepared this meal are very lucky men." What came back was unexpected, one of the ladies said, " Most of us have not seen our husbands in years, they are all up north in America".
Sobering.....
More to come,
The CoffeeMariner
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