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New food: huitlacoche
This was both a new ingredient and a new dish: quesadilla de maíz con huitlacoche.
Huitlacoche was glossed on the menu board as "corn fungus," which is fair enough: it's parasitic on maize plants. What they brought me wasn't what I'm used to seeing under the name "quesadilla," but a large (12-inch) corn tortilla filled with sauteed fungus and a bit of onion, topped with a very mild white cheese (queso fresco) and swimming in a fairly bland salsa verde. And there was a lot of it.
I'm glad I tried this, but mostly because I'd been vaguely curious about huitlacoche for years. I enjoyed the first few bites more than I liked what was still on my plate after ten minutes; I think this dish needs to be eaten hot, and it's a lot of food for one middle-aged woman who isn't feeling ravenous. I might consider ordering this again, if I found myself at Tenoch with a couple of other people who can eat both mushrooms and dairy and wanted to share it and a sandwich. Since that describes neither![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
cattitude nor adrian_turtle, I'm more likely to go back and get something else—I liked the bit of torta that Cattitude gave me—or a couple of tacos.
Both this and the tacos I've had at Taqueria Victoria in Arlington Center are not just within my spice tolerance, but actually mild; most things labeled "Tex-Mex" are too spicy for me since I had my gall bladder out, which was long enough ago that I am used to it, though there are foods I miss.
There's a Tenoch near Davis Square in Somerville, and one in Medford Square, and I believe they have a food truck.
Huitlacoche was glossed on the menu board as "corn fungus," which is fair enough: it's parasitic on maize plants. What they brought me wasn't what I'm used to seeing under the name "quesadilla," but a large (12-inch) corn tortilla filled with sauteed fungus and a bit of onion, topped with a very mild white cheese (queso fresco) and swimming in a fairly bland salsa verde. And there was a lot of it.
I'm glad I tried this, but mostly because I'd been vaguely curious about huitlacoche for years. I enjoyed the first few bites more than I liked what was still on my plate after ten minutes; I think this dish needs to be eaten hot, and it's a lot of food for one middle-aged woman who isn't feeling ravenous. I might consider ordering this again, if I found myself at Tenoch with a couple of other people who can eat both mushrooms and dairy and wanted to share it and a sandwich. Since that describes neither
cattitude nor adrian_turtle, I'm more likely to go back and get something else—I liked the bit of torta that Cattitude gave me—or a couple of tacos. Both this and the tacos I've had at Taqueria Victoria in Arlington Center are not just within my spice tolerance, but actually mild; most things labeled "Tex-Mex" are too spicy for me since I had my gall bladder out, which was long enough ago that I am used to it, though there are foods I miss.
There's a Tenoch near Davis Square in Somerville, and one in Medford Square, and I believe they have a food truck.