February 9, 2016 - Casa de Los Tesoros - Alamos, Sonora, Mexico

We are still on our trip in Mexico.  Today we traveled from San Carlos to Alamos...a lovely town filled with mansions from the 1800s.  These mansions fell into disrepair once the mining industry petered out.  In the 1940s people started moving back to Alamos and refurbishing the mansions. Great city to visit.

Our room for the evening is at the Casa de Los Tesoros, a former convent built in 1789.  It will be like sleeping in a musuem.  The walls are lined with paintings.  Stone scupltures abound in the courtyard.  Our dinner this evening in the hotel dining room was fabulous.

Both Jo Martin and I ordered the Stuffed Chile Poblano – seasoned meat, egg batter and tomato sauces, rice and vegetables.  It was the herbs and seasonings that made this first time tried dish.  I loved it.  The rice was green.  I must find out what was in it.  It was delicious.  We were also served a thinly coated and crusty half of an avocado that was warm and delicious. (I do not know how it was cooked.  I don’t think it was baked because the avocado itself was still firm. Later, as we talked about how good it was, we decided that it had been lightly breaded and deep fat fried really rapidly.)

I have never eaten any type of stuffed chile so I decided to try this while in Mexico.  I wanted to eat different Mexican food from what I was used to eating in the United States.  The Poblano Chile was stuffed to the max with the seasoned meat.  I really don't feel as if I have ever eaten anything quite this tasty.  Now, I want to try this again to see what I have been missing all these years.