Sausages

I was feeling like a snack the other evening at about 9 o’clock so I asked Rosalie what she had on hand. After the usual offering of muffins, popcorn and other assorted crap, she hit the holy grail.

Who else would make their husband a boiled sausage and a chunk of cheese for a snack at 9 p.m.? I am so blessed.

You may think I’m weird (true) and something of a peasant (also true) but it was delicious.

I’m a bit picky when it comes to food according to Rosalie. She’s starting to realize after all these years that I grew up in a different culture. In England almost every meal involved French fries fried in lard. In fact, everything was fried in lard. And of course, the main takeout was fish and chips. But now apparently it’s Indian food.

Since coming to Canada I sure miss English potatoes. The fries were better and the small new potatoes were delicious. Down here in Mexico, the spuds are similar to the English ones and I love them.

I have a very tender mouth and can’t tolerate spicy food even though I like it. Also, when I get a hot drink I have to let it cool a lot, unlike Rosalie who can drink coffee right out of the machine. I tried smoking cigars once but found that they burned my mouth so I quit that quickly. I did smoke for a while but that didn’t seem to affect me.

What food do I like? Anything from the Ocean except octopus or oysters. I eat a lot of Shrimp while here as well as fish. The fish in the restaurants is a bit hit-and-miss. Either it’s perfect or too dry. They love to put way too much salt or garlic on sometimes and that kills the flavour. I still like anything fried in lard, Although, at my age, I have to watch my cholesterol levels. People cringe whenever I mention that but “studies show” some lard is good for you. like anything else moderation is the key.

I once ordered garlic fish on the beach here for lunch and it was horrible. dried up and crunchy I did it a second time and vowed not to do it again. There is a difference between filet of fish with garlic and garlic fish, and I made that mistake.

On our way to Manzanillo a few years back we stopped at a restaurant on the beach for lunch. I once again mistakenly ordered ‘huachinango’ garlic fish. When I saw what I had ordered I was cursing myself and apologized to Rosalie. When we tasted it though it was delicious. Now, whenever we go to Manzanillo we stop at the same restaurant for garlic fish. Who’d a knew?

We found out that ‘huachinango’ is red snapper. We buy our fresh fish from one of the local ‘Pescaderías’ ( fish shops.) Rosalie couldn’t get our usual ‘sarangola’ so she got red snapper instead. It was so good that it’s now our go-to fish.

We also noted that when we first came here eighteen years ago the jumbo Shrimp was 220 pesos a kilo and it’s the same price today about $17 CDN.