Cooking with Mexican Ingredients

One of the aspects I most love about RV travel vs staying in resorts and eating in restaurants is the ability to cook our own meals with local ingredients. And Mexico has so many delicious, authentic food staples difficult, if not impossible, to find in Canada. Hereto, a list of my faves:

1. Chorizo - sold in thin plastic tubes, this is unlike the hard sausage-like chorizo found in Canadian delis. This chorizo is more of a highly-spiced meat paste that you squeeze into fry and add flavour to a host of other ingredients - into refried beans or scrambled eggs for breakfast burritos or an addition to ground beef for tacos.
2. Oaxaca cheese - similar to the string mozzarella popular as a kids snack, this white cheese comes in a twisted rope ball and melts to ooey-gooey awesomeness.
3. Fresh made tortillas - every town has a local maker (or several) that deliver still-warm flour tortillas to the markets each morning. They are light years away from the wraps that have become staples in Canadian grocery stores - they have a higher fat content and are often scorched from the baking stone, making them yummy enough just to eat by themselves.
4. Chile peppers - even the smallest Baja super mini (corner store) carries a variety of peppers - mild poblano for making chiles rellenos, jalapeño or serrano for salsa and more. While I'm not good with hot food and still finding my feet cooking with them, the dizzying array of options is worth exploring.
5. Seafood - the Baja is a seafood lovers banquet. It's possible to easily acquire freshly-caught scallops, shrimp, tuna, lobster, marlin, dorado...the list goes on, for a pittance.

YUM!