Are they available in Mexico? I am going to guess that pecans are grown somewhere in Mexico???? Cranberries are probably an import...am I right. We eat and cook with them both all the time so I am just trying to figure out what I will be doing without in advance. d
Pecans are used in all kinds of ways in Mexico and you'll find them everywhere.
Cranberries are another story. Others may have different experiences, but I have never seen a raw cranberry in Mexico. Cranberry juice cocktail, yes, and cranberry sauce in cans, but no raw berries. The Spanish word for cranberry is arándano.
Thanks Esperanza I was afraid of that. I will break the news to my husband. Here in New Mexico we only have them at Thanksgiving and christmas so we stock up on them and shove the bags of green chile we froze in the fall over to make way for the cranberries. d
Yes, big bags of mixed tropical fruits that are delicious. And I do vaguely remember seeing those moist-dried cranberries at the Costco in Guadalajara. Maybe that will be enough for Dolores's 'fix'.
You can always find raw cranberries in the Lake Chapala area in abundance at Super Lake during the holiday season. I've never looked for them elsewhere or at other times.
Pecans are common but usually kind of expensive.
Yankees can't pronounce "pecan" correctly.
(This post was edited by Bubba on Dec 9, 2005, 11:36 AM)
The proper pronunciation for pecan is "puCAN" with the "a" as in "Aw shucks". It is quite hurtful to southern ears to hear yankees say "pea can". It is also "HURRicun" not "hurriCANE". Furthermore, real Floridians are from "Flahdah" and real Mississippians are from "Missippi"
By the way, I just checked out those cranberries at Super Lake that I mentioned earlier and they cost $80 Pesos for 13 ounces.
While I am always right about things, sometimes I am wrong and the fact that I found green plantains (platanos machos verdes) in Soriana in Chapala yesterday, after loudly complaining that these fruits were not avaliable around here, makes me feel insecure in my boorish opinions. In order to assuage my guilt, I bought some and fried them up last night in olive oil with some garlic cloves and, man were those good with my favorite Haitian stew.
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