oldcoot
Senior Cook
We met, purely by chance, in a tiny, out-of-the-way village in Mexico some 40 years ago. It was our first venture into Mexico - a camping trip.
Gergiabelle and her husband, Ismael, were Chilean, also on a camping vacation from their present residence in California. Ismael turned out to have been a close friend of my uncle, an agricultural missionary in Chile for many years. Small world.
Anyway, Georiabelle prepared a luncheon for us, including a chilled salad. But there was no ice for many miles. She told us her secret.
After dicing (small) a variety of vegetables: carrots, jicama, sweet peppers, celery, etc., and adding some drained canned peas, she seasoned with salt and pepper, thentossed and spread the mixture in a large, flat pan. Then she liberally sprinkled it with good tequila, and set it in the sun!!!
Rhe rapid evaporation of the alcohol in the tequila quickly cooled the salad.
What a welcome dish on a scorching desert day!
Gergiabelle and her husband, Ismael, were Chilean, also on a camping vacation from their present residence in California. Ismael turned out to have been a close friend of my uncle, an agricultural missionary in Chile for many years. Small world.
Anyway, Georiabelle prepared a luncheon for us, including a chilled salad. But there was no ice for many miles. She told us her secret.
After dicing (small) a variety of vegetables: carrots, jicama, sweet peppers, celery, etc., and adding some drained canned peas, she seasoned with salt and pepper, thentossed and spread the mixture in a large, flat pan. Then she liberally sprinkled it with good tequila, and set it in the sun!!!
Rhe rapid evaporation of the alcohol in the tequila quickly cooled the salad.
What a welcome dish on a scorching desert day!
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