Memelas with Mari Carmen!!
Today we had an awesome Saturday lunch. We were all invited to have lunch with our spanish teacher and her family under one condition. We had to speak spanish the entire time, no english allowed. Mari Carmen is super cool, probably because she is friends with Irma, our super cool culture class teacher. They both wear cheetah print pants and black tops all the time, and they rock it out like two hot moms. We love them, and have learned so so much from them.
Mari Carmen came to pick us up from the school and we drove over to her house. We met her entire family including her husband, and her two beautiful kids who we hear about a lot. Mari Jose is 8 years old, and Jose Miguel is 4...basically they are adorable and hilarious.
They graciously invited us in and fed us all of our favorite foods. First we had some delicious soup, which was a veggie broth with corn, zucchini and who knows what else. Very good!
Next we scarfed down numerous memelas, which is basically a tortilla with salsa and cheese on top. Now if you really need to know, I can explain the difference between memelas and other kinds of mexican food to you later. However, for blog purposes, you only need to kind of know what a memela really is, and the real difference is how the tortilla is prepared. We had memelas with salsa verde (green) or salsa rojo (red), both tasted great, I just prefer the salsa verde. If you aren't careful, you can wind up eating 3 of these, or even more like Courtney. haha. They are sooo good topped with pico de gallo too!
Mari Carmen knows how much we love salsa, guacamole and chips, so she had tons of picco de gallo, guacamole and chips for us. Carne (meat) was also served, but I didn't eat any, just cause I wasn't in the mood, but I heard it was delicious as usual.
After our lunch, we couldn't forget Ashley's Birthday. Mari Carmen and her family had a cake delivered by motorcycle. Yummmmmmmy. They all sang to her, and lit up candles, and it was all so very sweet and fun. We really need to learn the mexican birthday song better. This time, it wasn't a Tres Leches cake, which made me pretty happy, because I wanted to try something different. The cake was more like home, it was a marble cake with frosting and a strawberry filling. So delicious! We all had seconds, and then licked the frosting off the plate.
We really enjoyed our afternoon with her whole family. We even got to see Mari Jose, her daughter perform for us. She has been taking belly dancing lessons, and is really quite adorable. We asked her how she liked her english class, and also discussed our future vacation plans. Mari Carmen and her family are just wonderful people, and I am so glad she is our teacher. We loved our memelas with Mari Carmen!!
-Sara Jacqueline
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