Oh how I miss Mexican food

Coming from someone who grew up in California, I definitely miss good Mexican food.  I crave it constantly even in Utah (where we have at least a few excellent places to choose from), and frankly I could live off it - eat it daily 3 times a day. 

Rich and I took the boys last week to dinner and tried the Las Iguanas here in town, and when I asked for their quesadilla without the chicken and the onions and other condiments - just cheese, they repeated back with confusion - 'just cheese?'  followed by 'so you want a quesadilla with only cheese in it?'  um, yeah - thus the word quesa and dilla.  no pollo por favor.  comprende?  At the 'Burrito place' or whatever it's called (basically, like a Chipotle restaurant or similar), they actually asked 'Have you been here before?' when we first walked in.  We both laughed, and said no, but that we'd been in a place like it many, many times.  Same thing though, when we asked for a quesadilla, he proceeded to take suggestions from us on how to make it, and as usual held back on the cheese so it was essentially 2 tortillas with a spattering of English cheddar in between.  He said they used to have it on the menu, but took it off.  Perhaps if they tried some good Mexican cheeses and/or put more inbetween they'd be more popular.

I bought some tortillas in Morrisons the other day (they were in the ethnic foods section - bottom shelf) and they actually have suggestions/directions on the package on how to eat them.  Specifically, to fry up some peppers and onions (they put onions in EVERYTHING here unfortunately for me, since I don't like them), and warm up the tortilla, fill the tortilla with the peppers and onions and then fold it 'like so' (there's a picture of how to make a taco).  Love it!

I'm in heaven at the moment eating my quesadilla with orange cheddar cheese (Jack or Colby are hard to come by) layered thickly in between the Old El Paso tortillas with some 'hot' Old El Paso salsa sprinkled all over.  I say 'hot', because it's not.  Still yummy, and I have to say, the squeeze bottle salsa idea is really cool!  We should have that in the states.  It squeezes out like Mustard or catchup.  Brilliant!