Rob was completely right.

DD's b/f's parents have met them in Paris and they are now all spending a week on a boat in Croatia. I KNOW that this will bring them (DD and b/f) back to reality which is not what they need right now.

Rob was SO right that if we'd met up with them (which I desperately wanted to do) it would have intruded on their independence, their trip and their space.

Wow, why is he always SO right.

We call it chile poblano (as do many Mexicans).

Char the poblano on a hot pan or open fire, put it in a plastic bag and let it sweat. Cut in strips, add corn (canned or frozen), media crema. Before hand, boil some chicken breasts and then pull apart the meat. Mix all that stuff up, roll up in a soft flour tortilla. That is more or less it but I am sure larousse has more things to add. I never have any trouble getting poblanos at Walmart.

I went to make some grocery shopping, I wanted to have a nice fruit basket for the visit of my maybe soon to be ex boyfriend and I went to a shop with a wide selection of them, of fruits of course not of ex boyfriends. It was almost 12 am and there was only one cashier girl. The girl kept introducing the wrong codes for the fruits, because even if they look similar in that store they have like 5 kind of apples, also some very exotic Mexican fruits like mamey, chico zapote, pitaña.

Well I had to tell the girl two times that she was charging me the fruit wrongly and behind me there was starting a big cue of impacient men. The girl behavied like if I should just say ok, give them the code you want. I couldn't it was like a matter of principles, lol. Finally her supervisor helped her and all was settled. I felt uneasy.

We can bash the Mexicans living in Mexico. Why do they need 5 o 6 taquerias, place where you eat tacos, in the middle of the walking way of people in one street? Why do they reproduce so much? Why do some get easily distracted working? Here Pio should have suffered a lot. Perfection or even perfection in mediocrity is not a known notion in some places.
Why do we need so many people in groceries stores, one to full the bags and carry them, one to take care of the car, one to wash the car, the parking cashier...

Why do we eat wherever the hunger strikes? Why do we feel that the rules don't apply to us but to the next guy?
You see, I could go on...

Since my separation, I have become sick of pizza and Chinese.

I need a homecooked meal. Hence, why I asked if you had recipes.

That's ok. You can ignore me if you want.

Did anyone hear from Jen yet?

Pio, I think you described well the recipe of the Poblano chicken. Instead of chest I would use 'leg' or thight with out bone because of the taste. The chile can also be de-skinned, lol, sumerging it in boiling water for like one minute or when the outside sking is noticeable and white.

Todd, as with most chillis from Mexico, you can control the 'hotness' lol, by removing the white straps all along inside of them, and the seeds.

Kiwi,

Sorry about your daughter visitors. I have seen pics of Croatia coast and they are very nice, romantic.

Pio, how do you call the fresh elote in English?

Sorry KiwiJ. I am not ignoring you. I am just juggling. Right now DD1 is point a hot glue gun at me and she means business. DD2 wanst to water slide and I am running coax from the den to the kitchen through the plenum space and running into one obstacle after another.

As I remember, you made a big deal out of wanting to meet them in Europe and was almost a fallout between you and Rob. Why do you say that BF's parents visit was a mistake? You must have reason.

Darn I just wrote a post and lost it.

I did want to meet them in Europe, desperately.

I think the parents visiting is a mistake because this is THEIR (DD and b/f's) adventure, THEIR trip of a lifetime and their independence. Now they'll be back to doing what the parents want and the dynamics of the whole trip will change. Only for a week, which is a blessing. They're getting to really know each other for when they marry, they're away from home, they'll be back here soon enough and will have to deal with us as parents again.

Rob understood that they needed to be left alone to do this. Does he rock, or what???? How does he know this stuff?

Hey, if the glue gun gets you, well, heck I don't know how to get that stuff out.

Todd, tell me what food do you like, I mean, soups, creams, chicken, fish, salads and I can tell you some of our versions.

Two very important herbs in Mexican cuisine are fresh cilantro and epazote. There is a simple champignon soup with the boiled water, lol, caldo, of chicken. The secret ingredient is epazote.
cilantro is... Coinder*?

Kiwi, that's a sin, you are in love with Superman !!!

I think BK was looking for you...

I can get fresh cilantro. I do not know what epazote is. If it is something Goya makes, I can get it. I can probably get it anyway since there are many Latin stores here.

I am looking for a main dish type recipe. For example, in PR, Arroz con pollo is very popular. Or paella but that would probably be difficult. I have a very small la cocina with only a couple of pots in which to cook, hence the need for something easy. I can only cook the normal American stuff. Gets boring after a while. Boy, I miss PR food.

So, if there is something like beef and rice or chicken and rice or whatever. Some kind of meat with rice or potatoes. And the easier the better.

Yes, the Australian sense of humour. Har har.

I'm allowed to be in love with Superman. He's my H.

Todd is just an imitation.

Todd, just cook SOMETHING. How hard can it be?????

For you to feel this strongly about it, you must have gotten some feedback from your DD? What does she say?

I can see how, if you go off on the adventure of a lifetime, it is something that you would want to be uniquely yours. Just depends on who is the tour guide and who is the tourist.

LOL, DD is probably ok with it but she does find the parents quite hard going. She is very fond of b/f's father but I'm afraid b/f's mother is quite hard work. She is very fond of DD (as much as a mother can be fond of the girl who is taking her darling boy away) but it's just something that I'm glad we aren't doing - that is, interrupting their trip.

I'll be out of contact with DD for a while but she hasn't said much.

It's more that Rob was completely right about this and I was completely wrong. I LOVE it when he's so smart - it's what he's always been and I love him for it.

Well I'm off to the comissary. DDs want hamburgers for lunch so I need beef, buns, tomatoes, yoghurt...

I have cooked a few things. But I do not have receipes for spicy food something I am really missing right now.