[CH] Dinner at Guapos -- was great!
AndyB (quark@erols.com)
Wed, 27 Mar 2002 23:23:48 -0500
last night, dinner at Guapos -- was great!
There were 12 of us:
Abby & Jim Campbell (www.wildpepper.com)
Carol & Robert Farr (www.thechileman.com)
Delores L. Farr
Jennie Farr
Martin Brockman
Keith "Pecos" Glasgow
Diane & Peter Ashkenaz
Joanne & Andy Barnhart
We were a diverse group, but united in good food and drink, and our love for El
Grande. A great time was had by all, and there was good yakity-yak at both ends
of the table all night long. In particular, Jim and Pecos were exchanging
numerous "war stories" during dinner. There is just something about CHs getting
together to have a good party.
The food again was excellent TexMex: the butterfly shrimp and the quail done on
the mesquite grill were again delicious.
However, culinary highlights were provided by both Robert and Jim, in that they
both brought ample samples of their products. We had great fun sampling their
sauces and salsas with the tortillas and other foods. There were two in
particular that I take note of:
o Robert provided a "Respect Your Elderberries" sauce, not too hot, which
went well with the quail, and, which I imagine, would go great with duck.
o Jim provided an item which was new to me: "Red Savina Garlic Sauce",
which was basically a straight habanero mash, flavored with garlic.
For the shrimp, I had ordered some "Mexican butter", which was quite good -- but
needed something. Then, I spotted the Red Savina sauce: > one ounce went into
the drawn butter! Robert, who was sitting next to me, and who had also ordered
the shrimp, complained at least 3 or 4 times how terribly hot it was - but
continued to use it also for the quail and fajitas! (A familiar CH story.)
I am quite pleased with myself for having instigated this. I plan to do so
again -- or, perhaps, as several at the table suggested, there is enough
critical CH mass to hold a hotluck in the DC-metro area. Please let me/the list
know if you also think so.
AndyB