Background: This one is a little bit unbelievable and serendipitous all at once. Yay! Once upon a time, a girl from Colorado moved far, far away to the East Coast to work at an Ivy School. There she met another girl also from the southwest, down New Mexico-way. They would reminiscence about wide blue skies, the smell of pinion and the glory of fresh green chilies. The girl from NM was kind enough to let the CO girl in on a little secret: her Mom's enchilada recipe. The CO girl was young and naive at the time and let the recipe and friendship swirl away with time and distance and life, in general. But when she made her 30 list, she so dearly wondered about *that* recipe and that NM girl. Not knowing how to find the girl (who she had googled with no luck) and not having written down the recipe, but remembering the success of those enchiladas and the sheer joy of that recipe, she put it on her list of things to do before 30 never imagining she would ever capture the joyfulness of the enchiladas that warranted a spot on the 30 list...
Status: A cryptic comment left on this very blog alluded to *that* recipe. How could someone out there KNOW about *that* recipe?? I hadn't talked about it or asked around for the recipe; *that* recipe existed someplace else, almost in another life for me....I wondered at the comment...at the reference to the Halloween party (remember the horchata?) but thought it could not be possible that someone would actually be offering me *that* recipe and it be the one I remembered, from the NM girl...So I responded to the comment; a little cautious and skeptical but mostly curious. The commenter posted a long comment. With...
wait for it....wait for it...
*that* recipe!
From the NM girl herself. She found her way to the 30 List through the magic of Google. Yay! Thanks Ellie!
Plan of Action (POA): Make going away enchiladas in a week or so for everyone! Yay! To do: invite people over, make enchiladas, eat enchiladas and write to Ellie about how good it was :)
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