Showing posts with label cucumbers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cucumbers. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 4, 2017

El Paso: A New Flavor

Tajin, El Paso, Texas. October 2016.

October 2016


I was at the grocery store the other day. Buying cucumbers. The woman standing next to me asked what I intended to do with them. "I'm gonna slice 'em up and eat them raw," I said. And she said, "Chile and limón!" And I said, "Eh?" And she led me to the canasta filled with tall, slender bottles of Tajin chili-and-lime seasoning. And my life now has a brand-new flavor.


Tajin, El Paso, Texas. October 2016.


Hey, this is what my Guatemalan Spanish teacher was telling me about - chiles and lime on her cantaloupe, watermelon, mangoes, and popcorn.

Mmmmm.

A former TLG colleague recommended that I try Tajin with jícama. Yes.


Tajin, El Paso, Texas. October 2016.



Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Washington, D.C.: Cool as a Cucumber

Cucumbers in water urn. Washington, D.C. June 2016.



When I walked into an upscale store on a hot day in Bethesda, the Rubenesque glass urn filled with water and chunky slices of cucumber made me smile.

What simple beauty.