On Sat, 10 May 2008 01:56:38 -0400, Goomba38
wrote:

I just returned from a week in Chicago and am exhausted! What a great
city. I can't wait to return again.

Snip to my lou


Next came a starter of jicama, cucumber and pineapple salad ($5) cut
into sticks and served with crushed guajillo chile dusted on top, and a
couple of lime wedges on the side to squeeze over. I'd never had jicama
before although I knew about it. I found it to be similar in flavor to a
water logged raw potato yet with a slight tang. Combining it with fresh
pineapple and cucumber helped temper the slight heat from the ground
chile. It came wrapped in a banana leaf cone inside a parfait type
glass, kinda cute. The waiter even gave me tips on how to pick out and
buy jicama which I'll probably do this weekend to recreate the salad.
http://i27.tinypic.com/29vfknp.jpg

Jicama is such a refreshing and diet freindly veggie. If you have
access to a Hispanic market or candy store, get some Lucas. It's a
sweet, sour, spicy chile powder that among other things is sprinkled
on fruit and especially jicama.
I have a recipe for a pineapple jicama salad called Rojak on my blog.
It's delicious.

What tips did he give you on how to pick them out? I've never learned
how to pick them out, it's just hit and miss with me.

I ordered the most incredible steak for dinner ($29.50)-
http://i27.tinypic.com/2m2e4gm.jpg

snipped due to drool

The prices seem very reasonable.

something off the dessert menu too! I selected a trio of some sort of
alcoholic infusions mixed with cream and served in three glasses (Trio
de Toritos, $10). http://i25.tinypic.com/15zi245.jpg
One was guava, one coconut and the last peanut. The guava was quite
fragrant yet not particularly sweet. The coconut sweeter, yet not
sweetened? The final peanut one tasted slightly sweet, and the waiter
confirmed it was made with peanut butter so that is sweetened. They were
just too rich on my full stomach so I just wanted to try a sip of each.

That's what I like about Mexican desserts is that they aren't too
sweet.

Thank you so much for sharing your meal with us, Your descriptions are
great. It looks like it was memorable.

koko
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