Coming from what people here like to call the “East Coast” though most of us know as “Ohio” Every Town seemed to have a very good fairly authentic Mexican Restraunt. Most of you reading this are probably familiar with “The Camp” or El Campesino” At least there once a week I craved that place. But, with that and a few other places that was about it. After moving to Denver I realized that they took their mexican food very seriously. An Annual Chili Harvest festival in Peublo, There is a mexican place on every street corner, the Local paper rates the Areas best Green Chili. I guess it should be quite obvious seeing a decent percentage of the local population is Mexican or of Mexican decent. When I first came here seeing green chili on the menu I expected something similar to what you might find at Wendy’s only green. That certainly was not the case. None the less I am trying to get a grasp on this phenom here. Anyway, this past weekend I passed a place advertised as “foods of New Mexico” Hmm what exactly does new Mecican food consist of? So today I checked it out. I ordered the New mexico Plate. It had a tamale, cheese enchilada, beef taco, rice and beans All covered in Green Chili and on the side a Sopaipilla with honey for dipping. Not bad for 6 bucks! And to me it sounded pretty Mexican. The food was outstanding. But, I’m still not sure why it is “New Mexican” I did a little research when I got back. A colleague at work informed me that Little Anita’s Is a Local chain out of NM who recently expanded into the Denver Area. The following is the best definition of New mexican food I could Find “New Mexican comida, or food, is a spicy blend of cultures: Native American and Hispanic–which has created the most unique and temptingly sabrosa (flavorful) comida under the New Mexican sun. In fact, you will find our chile verde (green) and rojo (red) to be equal to the heat found on the sun, so bring along your own personal supply of H20 if it gets a little too hot for you in the cocina (kitchen). All and all It was still good and I can’t wait to go back… Wait I saved half for lunch tomarrow wohoo!

We had a few squash laying around the place that I wanted to use up. But every night I wasn’t in the mood for something sweet I’ve only had acorn squash a few times and every one of those times it was baked with brownsugar and butter. It’s quite tasty and very sweet. I was chatting with a friend the other day and he mentioned a meal that his roomate made. It was baked acorn squash and was prepared in a more savory way than I had ever seen. I told him of my acorn squash laying around so he sent me This recipe Believe it or not it was quite good. Aileen liked it alot too (go figure it was all veggies) I don’t know if it is for everyone out there but give it a whirl you might be surprised.

We went here last night for some dinner. Didn’t know what to expect but had a read a blurb in the local community paper about it and it mentioned a Vegan/vegetarian friendly menu. Being only a few blocks down the road we figured we’d check it out. Essentially its a super healthy subway. And man do they cater to the vegetarians. The menu is split into the Carnivore section and the herbivore section. All the food is natural, organic freerange etc etc so the quality is pretty high. Oddly enough they don’t serve soft drinks, I didn’t even realize until reading their site later on. I had something called “Nick the Greek” it was pretty good, and it was rolled in a freshly baked pita. Aileen had some sort of Portabella mushroom thing that had Her beloved fake cheese on it. For desert we had some sort of pear cobbler. All in all it was pretty good, A bit sloppy so you might need a fork, but Aileen loves going to places like that where there is more than one thing on the menu for her.

Thought of an idea for a mexican joint. Call it Desburrito, make everyone who works there dress up like Antonio Banderas and play only Eagles songs.