Today I had for dinner Crêpes de huitlacoche with chipotle sauce, and a little glass of tequila - un caballito. Of course it was delicious, but I wonder, who was the brave who decided this kind of food was right. Huitlacoche, or Cuitlacoche (corn smut), is a fungus that grows into corn - Ustilago maydis. It doesn't look nice, as some people had told me. I just could say it looks kind of strange, maybe because I've seen it since I was a little boy.
The colour of huitlacoche is between dark purple and black, with some tones of green, and the yellow from the corn. It tastes kind of earthy, and it's prepared fried with onion, some garlic and tomato (at least in my house). Just some huitlacoche in a tortilla is great. Of course, some chile has to go with it. It seems impossible not to have chile with our meal. Now, using a crêpe instead of a tortilla makes it different. I have had it with white sauce, and it's very nice. With the chipotle sauce it's magnificent!
One time, a frind from my wife from chile, visited us in Mexico City. There were two things that shocked her: The first one was in a short trip to an avocado orchard. After some minutes riding, she said with amazement: "When does the city ends!". The second one, with some distaste, she said that everything we eat was tortilla with wathever in it and chile sauce.
That second statement may be truth, but Mexican cuisine has much more to offer. But yes, we love to eat tortillas, as well as tamales, sopes, pelliscadas, panuchos, bocolitos, migadas, gorditas, tlacoyos and many corn based dishes. The chile sauce is, or chiles prepared in many ways, always on our table (and there are many varieties of chile with different grades of "picor" or hotness).
At the end, every culture favors some food, some ways of cooking. I like many stiles. For instance, I like very much Japanese cuisine, some other times I feel like eating pizza with beer. What I had today for dinner is a mixture: a classic French or Belgium dish with tipical mexican ingredients.
¡Salud!
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