MEXICAN FOOD

The other day, I was looking through some recipe books of mine and found this sheet of paper with recipes on it, in one of my books. As you can tell by how yellowed the paper is, it is old. I remember exactly how old it is. In the late seventies when we lived in Little Rock for the first time, M's department at his office had a pot luck and a lady brought this Hot Texas Cheese Dip.

M had never eaten it before and thought it was great tasting. So, the person printed these recipes off and gave them to him. No, we had never even eaten queso.

In case you can't read them I will type them out.

HOT TEXAS CHEESE DIP

1. melt 2 pounds Velveeta cheese
and 1/3 C. milk slowly. (stir)
2. add 1 tsp. Tabasco sauce
1 tsp. garlic powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1 can tomatoes with green chilies(wonder why they just didn't say Rotel)
1/2 pound hot pork sausage that has been fried and drained
3. serve with Doritos


CHEESE BALL

Mix all these ingredients together and form into a ball.

2 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese
1 (8 1/2) oz. can crushed pineapple, drained
1 C. chopped pecans
!/4 C. chopped green onions
1/4 C. chopped green peppers
Dash of salt

Roll the cheese ball in 1 more cup of chopped pecans, cover and chill
Serve with crackers.

FRIED CHEESE

Cut hard cheese into 1 inch cubes. (hard cheese like cheddar, American, mozzarella, etc. - Not soft cheese like Velveeta)
Put toothpick in cheese
1. Dip in flour.
2. Dip in beaten egg.
3. Dip in dry fine bread crumbs
4. Dip in egg again
5. Dip in crumbs again, then fry in hot fat till golden brown.

The office already knew we were moving to Oklahoma and they told him that he would probably eat lots of this once he got to Oklahoma. We had never even eaten Mexican food. In case you think we led a sheltered life, you have to remember we had only lived in the deep South. I can only remember one Mexican restaurant in Little Rock in the late seventies and that was Chi Chi's.

I can remember all of our friends on birthdays and anniversaries going there and of course we always went to a steak restaurant. We couldn't understand why they would go there. We had no idea it really tasted good.

I remember telling this story to the kids. Not long after we moved to OKC, we were given tickets to a hockey game. We kept seeing people going to the concession stand and coming back with a food. I told M whatever that is, sure looks good. So, he said he would go and see if he could find out what it was. Well, he came back with it and I asked him what it was and he said nachos.

Of course we have now eaten our share of Mexican food and have learned to love it. It might even be my favorite food. K and I went to On the Border last night to eat.



Of course I have to post some pictures of A.

She has learned how to catch herself when she is sitting and not fall and bump her head. She is also starting to pull up on everything which seems a little young for her to be doing that.
She is so good with her little sippy cup. K said that she knew how to use it the first time she gave it to her.