I'm a food lover

 I always  wondered

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how it would be to travel the world and try different kinds of food around the world. Growing up I was raised on Mexican food  no matter what my Grandma made there was always beans as one of our side dish and of course the tortillas. My grandma always told me no man is going to want a lazy woman so I learned how to cook at a young age, but Fridays were the best days cause my dad will take us out to eat instead of staying home and cooking or he would make some bar-b-q and oh man it was the best, but of course everyone that has a father or uncle or brother that cooks bar-b-q outside thinks their cooking is the best.



   My grandma would always make the same food I was growing up and yes I got tiered of the same foods, so as I grew up moved out had kids of my own I  like to cook some new things, there’s one recipe  I found called  Trash Can Cabbage its one of my favorites and really easy to make the main ingredients is Cabbage and Sausage its good to make when you don’t feel like cooking. One of my kids favorite dish is Spaghetti you can never go wrong with Spaghetti unless you don’t know how  to cook it like my mother its one of the easiest meals to cook and she cant cook it. Italian is one of my favorite kind of foods I love the Shrimp pasta from the restaurant Antonio’s  on Baker road here in Baytown they also have the best bread  before you get your meal don’t you just love the free appetizers before your meal. I’ve tried to make some Italian pastas my self but there not as good as the restaurant.

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   I can never get tiered of the different Mexican foods thought and of course the Taco Trucks, now a days everywhere you go you will find a Taco truck my favorite is the mini tacos of Pastor you usually get about five tacos with cilantro, onions lime and jalapeno if you want it  but you got to have the lime cause that’s the icing on the cake, there is also Gorditas, Tortats, Quesadillas and you cant forget the Menudo and the Pasole, some people say that Menudo and Pasole are the same and which they do both have the harmony in it but not the same meat Menudo is made with Pig and Pasole is made with Pork and they have a different flavor and of course we eat it on the mornings we have bad hangovers cause it helps it a lot with a mineral water on the side. I do not know how to make either of the two but I need to learn those are the best dish in Mexican food in my opinion and if you haven’t tried them you are missing out.

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    Everybody has their own opinion when it comes to bar-b-q but for me I love any bar-b-q that has a lot of flavor and different taste in the meats, some people when they cook different meats all the meats have the same flavor. My dad has his own little special why of cooking a brisket he likes to  soak it in Italian dressing the night before   and than cooking it in a pit outside wrapped in foil to keep the flavor inside, the best brisket is when you pull it apart and it just slide write off and very tender and soft to eat and all the juice is on the plate where you can soak your bread of tortilla in it and eat it while you are eating the brisket. There’s also the side dish when eating the brisket you have your potato salad, beans, rice and you can forget the Chile wither its just jalapenos or a homemade Chile made by them also the jalapeno bacon wraps that are made with cream cheese in the middle   those are the best when it comes to and appetizer as soon as you take the first bite with the juice and cream cheese mixed together and having the bacon flavor on the outside once you have one you, you cant stop yourself from eating them until your mouth is on fire. So than you have the wings and my opinion on wings if you make wings you have to make all different kinds of flavors cause just one flavor is boring  and my favorite our the lemon pepper and you have to cook them just right to where the are still juicy when you bite them and the flavor just runs down your throat and the best place to by wings in my opinion is Wing stop they have the best lemon Pepper  but everybody has their own opinion when it come to food because we all have our own different taste buds. So if you have never been out and tried a Taco truck you must try one and there is one by the White Elephant on I-10 and I must say it’s really good just don’t know the name of the food truck.

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  Growing up everybody had a different life styles, I like to say that mine was interesting but yet scary sometimes to. I was raised on a ranch what we liked to called it La Perez Rancho, we lived about 5 miles out of a little town called Mathis. As we woke up in the morning we didn’t need an alarm because the roasters will be up at the crack of dawn waking you up, I say we cause it was family that lived all around cousins aunts, uncle and grandparents.  Every other weekend we would go with our Welito to sale or buy animals at the Livestock, we would raise pigs cows, horse and we even had a blind cow that everybody was scared of even thought she was blind. Since we had so much land of course someone had to cut the grass so each of us kids had a part to cut but the scary part about it was you never know what you would come across, wither we were cutting the grass or just playing outside or feeding the animals we always had to be alert for anything and when I say alert for snakes or big tarantulas. Everytime it would ran is when the tarantulas would come out man I hated those thing so much I hated for it to rain, in my house we would always find little spiders but in my cousins house she would find snakes. One morning as we were getting ready for school it was raining so my mother tells me to close all the windows in the house, so as I go and close them there is one window that has a whole on the screen as I started to close it I looked down and there was a tarantula walking in the whole I jumped so high and ran to my mother and told her what was coming in but of course she wasn’t getting near it so luckily my dad got rained out form work he was home, he got a jar and let it walk in there to keep it as a pet. Later that day when we got home from school we had my dad put the jar outside cause we couldn’t deal with it inside the house so he did, as night time came and we had to take our showers and get ready for bed I decide to take a shower first, so I get undressed get in the shower and close the curtain as soon as I close it there is another tarantula on the curtain I swing that curtain back open grab an towel and take off running to my grandmas house right next door my dad thought I was crazy and went running behind me to see what was going on as he got to my grandmas house behind me he tells me what the hell is wrong with you and I told him there’s another tarantula in the restroom, so he ran home to check and my sister had already killed it with a frying pan. As the week ended and the weekend came I went to stay at my cousins house which was just next door, we had a little sleep over which we played dress up or Barbie’s or whatever we could thing of, so as we started to play dress up of course we had to get some clothes so I went into her dresser to grab some clothes as I open the dresser drawer to get some clothe I notice what I thought was a fake snake toy so I tell me cousin hahah trying to scare me with a fake snake and she response with what fake snake and I was already grabbing for it as she said that and when I went for it the snake moved, so I jumped on the bed as my cousin did to and we both started to

scream, her dad walked in the room and said again what tha hell is wrong with you two and we tell him there’s a snake in the drawer so he looks and grabs it and says its just a damn grass snake you chicken shits. I decided I wanted to go home and sleep with my dad cause I was scared so my uncle walked me home my dad asked what happen and I told him and he told me to just go to sleep. The worst kind of snake I have ever seen was a rattlesnake and a pretty big one to, as I was playing outside one day when my uncles dog just keep barking so he came out side to check and there was a really big rattlesnake next to the dog ready to attack one my uncle saw it he went back inside got his shot gun and shot it that was the biggest snake I have ever seen. I do miss living out in the Rancho with my family but I don’t think I would like to have my kids out there from the experience I had growing up but I do tell my kids all the interesting stories I have and when we visit I don’t let them leave my side, these are stories to tell my grandchildren.