[CH] On the road
Alex Silbajoris (asilbajo@hotmail.com)
Fri, 13 Apr 2001 13:32:19
What a week, I'm training at four military bases in three states in five
days. Time and money have both been too tight for me to hit the C-H spots I
wanted to see on this trip, but I will be in the DC area again in two weeks.
I haven't had a chance to get online for days, but I finally got a local
connection here in Harrisburg and I could read up on the C-H traffic.
I owe thanks and apologies to all in Madison; Linda and I had a great time
at the hotluck, but I regret that we didn't go back the next night. We had
a fantastic weekend, though, with some nice tours and walks among the
flowering gardens and roads. We found a new Mexican grocery in town, with
some things I've never seen before. For example, we got a "snack seasoning"
called Super Lucas. I don't have one in front of me to give you al the
ingredients, but imagine a sweet, peppery powder, grainy like sugar, with a
lot of citric acid in it to make it extremely tart. The flavor is at once
sweet, sour, and hot. I don't know how people use this stuff, but it might
be realy interesting grilled onto chicken, or else maybe in place of salt on
the rim of a margarita glass. We also found chile flavor in other snacks,
like watermelon lolipops. Haven't tried one of those yet. There are enough
baci ingredients (and fancy ones) to compose a heck of a Mexican feast.
As I go from one restaurant meal to another, I carry a shaker jar (invented
by the Shakers, you know) of CaJohn's Fiery Salt. It is the one-shake
solution to breakfast, lunch, or dinner. Last night I got a fish-and-chips
dinner, and the salt went very well in the little tub of tartar sauce.
Chile out,
- A
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