Every bite of food should be a sweet bite
It started with our Saturday errands run…to the supermarket… the conversation at the seafood station was short and to the point:
Me: Why don’t we buy some and treat ourselves? They are on sale.
Tom: I fire up the grilled, you melt some butter and we called it a belated Valentine’s dinner.
Me: Deal
You all know by now my love affair with corn. So you can imagine that when summer arrives around these parts and the BBQ season starts, I’m giddy with excitement of all the corn that is going to show up.
If there is one country that knows how to eat corn is Mexico. Anywhere you go you will find carts in every street corn selling something made with corn and where there is corn there is this dish called Esquites. It’s a snack and the word comes from the Nahuatl word izquitl, which translates to “toasted corn”.
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As some of you may know, this past weekend we were evicted out of our home by the exterminator, who’s job was to get rid of all the nasty creepy crawly critters in our rental house – mainly termites.
Tom and I had no choice but to pack humans and four legged friends and take off, and since we did not get to enjoy the long memorial weekend, what better place than to wait out our eviction but in a beach cottage?