Chicago has a very high Hispanic population and, as a result, is positively brimming with authentic and exotic Latino food and culture.
I have become quite addicted to Mexican food, none of it healthy. There is a neat fast-food chain called "Chipotle" and it serves up some of the most delicious Mexican food I've ever had on the run. But when I realised that my favourite fajita burrito contained 54 grams of fat, I made the quick decision to limit my intake. The $3.50 margaritas there are still a favourite.
But if I've got some more time, and if I'm in the mood to sit down at a restaurant, I can't go past "Cesar's". You may recall me commenting on the underground margarita lounge at the "Cesar's" near my house. Well I have found another "Cesar's" even closer and while it doesn't serve the margaritas below street level, it still serves them up just as frosty, just as strong, and just as delicious.
And last night marked Sarah's final night in Chicago so we went to the "Cesar's" closest us for a really nice meal. Well, it WAS nice until Lexie started to feel ill. Fortunately this happened AFTER we'd eaten. But none of us were up to the free tequila shots that the waiter brought around, so I donated them to a nearby table of diners who received them gratefully and without hesitation.
I'm having a bit of a love affair with the Wild West, and down into Mexico right now. I'm reading "Lonesome Dove" by Larry McMurtrie (the guy who bought us that weepie "Terms of Endearment") and it's a sweeping saga of Cowboys, Indians, unforgiving landscape, and treacherous conditions. Where men are men, and women like them that way. You get the idea. It's not a book I'd normally read but it came highly recommended to me and I just can't put it down. Except to slurp my frosty margarita, of course.
2 comments:
I like it best when you've loaded up the taco with all the goodies to absolute over-flowing .... grab it in your hands .... take a big bite from one end and it breaks in the middle and everything falls out into your lap ... now that's a Kodak moment (not)
larry mcmurtry also co-wrote the screenplay to 'brokeback mountain' - which is a wee bit different to 'lonesome dove' where the cowboys were only shooting up the indians.....
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