Fuddruckers in my life.

When I see a Fuddruckers restaurant it is hard for me not to think about my wife; that is because back in the summer of 2002 that was the place where I met my wife. Everything started because one of my friends was trying to talk to a girl that worked a Fuddruckers and he wanted me to help him talk to the girl, according to him she was beautiful, not like any other girl, and all kinds of other things, little did I know; she was going to end up being my wife. At first she didn't really wanted to talk to me, apparently we had met before and I was rude to her; up to this day I still can’t remember when that happened.

About a week after we first met I ended up going back to the restaurant, she took my order and as she was walking away from the cash register she fell flat on her butt, I couldn’t help it but to laugh, she didn’t like that… not one bit, and long story short I ended up wearing my cheese burger home. After a couple of days I guess she felt bad and started to talk to me; we ended up being really good friends and I did tried to help my friend get with her, but she ended up telling me that she was not interested on him. One year after a good friendship we ended up together and got married in 2005, for our first food we decided to go to Fuddruckers. Seven years later we are still together and every time we go to that restaurant we look at each other and smile thinking about all the things we’ve been through and how that restaurant was so important for our relationship and now we got two kids to prove it.

Northern Mexico's Enchiladas

Last Saturday my mother came to visit from Mexico; she loves to cook and obviously could not resist going straight to the kitchen to fix one of my favorite dishes (I guess that was her way of saying “I’m happy to see you”), Enchiladas from Northern Mexico, Quite honestly I don’t know if that is the real name of the dish or if that is the name that my mother came up with after she invented it. The ingredients for this delicious plate are:

• ·         Guajillo Pepper which by the way is not even the real name of the pepper, it is produced by drying the Mirasol pepper, and as a good pepper I believe it comes from Mexico, mainly because I have not seen it anywhere else.
• ·         Tortillas freshly made at my house by my wife, but if we break it down even more; you could say that tortillas are made out of three other ingredients which are:

o   Corn and more than likely it came from Texas, because not all corn tastes the same and the corn that we like always comes from Texas

o   Salt, this ingredient could come out of many places, however I’m going to adventure to say that it came from Sam’s Club, you can never go wrong with the truth.

o   Water which came out of my faucet and more than likely traveled all the way from Marietta which is where the main water treatment plant is located at.

• ·         Manchego Cheese, this happens to be the most important ingredient, without cheese there is no enchilada! Even though the dish is 100% Mexican, the cheese is not. It is made in a region in Spain called “La Mancha”, there are many other cheeses that look and even taste similar to this one, but do not compare to the real deal. Made out sheep milk it is one of the best foods I could ever ask for, we don’t go to Spain that often so whenever I can I try to stock up on it.
• ·         Onion, I know for sure this one came out of our same state because I shop at my local store where I know they pick their fruits and vegetables fresh every season.
• ·        Puya Pepper which only happens to grow in south Mexico.
• ·         Vegetable Oil, I read the label on the bottle so I know this one came straight from Southern California.
• ·         Cumin is last ingredient; this is nothing but spice to help give a little more taste to the food, I don't really think it needs it, but I don't wanna be the one to mess up the dish so I use it anyways.

There is also an option to add chicken or beef to the meal, but I like mine without any meat. Basically the whole dish is nothing but tortilla, cheese and salsa, but at the same time there is nothing like it.

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