Ecco Mexico!!!

Obviously we have been eating a lot of Italian food: pasta, cheese, pizza, gelato.....We decided that on Friday we would make or try to make Mexican food. Since we were in Lucca, (we went into a grocery store that had a decent selection of ethnic food including taco shells-can't remember if they had taco sauce!), we'd been planning on making some type of Mexican food. Armed with our jar of cumin from the U.S. we decided we would give it a shot!

On Thursday while Reed went to work, I went to the grocery store here to pick up some ingredients. Conad City (our supermarket) does not have half the selection of ethnic ingredients that were at the store in Lucca (we plan on stocking up in Lucca!). It did not look too good at first, when the closest thing I could find to tortillas was flat bread. I ended up buying that, but then at a smaller grocery store near the apartment I found.....................

These!!! "Poco Loco" tortillas!

They were still not the same as the tortillas back home. They were thicker and if you tried one on its own it kind of had a sweet taste to it. Still, better than nothing.

We had been told that sour cream did not exist here. Reed told me to look for buttermilk at the store because he thought he could make sour cream. In the end, I found this......

Yup, that's real sour cream. The picture is a little dark but it is from Germany. The whole back of the container was in German. The picture of the salad made me think it "might" be sour cream at the store. It was definitely thick!

This was our final creation:


We improvised a little considering we had no taco sauce or taco seasoning. The cumin definitely went a long way to make this taste like Mexican food (we also used half a can of diced tomatoes).