IFBA Mexican Supper Club: Saturday 21 May
April 22, 2011 in IFBA Events
Do you know how to put a taco together? Fancy learning how to make your own corn tortillas? Lily Ramirez-Foran, our very own Amateur Mexican Cook in Ireland, has kindly offered to host a once-off Mexican Supper Club for IFBA members. This will take place in her kitchen in Walkinstown, Dublin 12, from 3pm on Saturday 21 May.
During the afternoon, Lily will show us how to make basic corn tortillas plus three taco fillings. After we’ve all had a chance to making our own, we can sit down together to enjoy a taquiza (a taco fest) and, perhaps, a few margaritas. She is hoping that the weather will be warm enough by then to give a true Mexican Feel to the evening with frozen strawberry margaritas outdoors (she had Kristin at the frozen strawberry margaritas!)
Almacen Latino (www.almacenlatino.com) will sponsor the maize flour for the tortillas as there is no Irish equivalent, and have also offered three tortilla presses and a voucher for their website to raffle on the night.
Lily has costed the ingredients and the price for the food and tuition is just €25 per person. If you’re interested in coming along and discovering that there’s more to Mexican food than just nachos and fajitas, sign up below!
Lily’s full, mouthwatering, menu is below the fold.
Botana:
Traditional Mexican food has no starters, we do something called “botana” (light snack) usually consisting of freshly made salsas and totopos (tortilla chips)
Main:
Barbacoa -traditional Beef dish from the north of Mexico stewed in tequila and bay leaf overnight.
Rajas con Queso y Elote – a vegetarian dish with sweet peppers, corn and cheese
Cochinita Pibil with red onion pickle – Pork meat based dish traditionally served in the south of Mexico
Papas con chorizo – potato & chorizo based dish
Salsa roja – Red salsa
Salsa verde – green tomatillo sauce
Corn tortillas
Salad to garnish tacos
Desserts:
Traditional Mexican Flan
Mango cold Pie
Drinks:
Hibiscus cold tea - non alcoholic
Frozen Margaritas – definitely alcoholic
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Catherine @ The Runcible Spoon said on April 22, 2011
Oh, I LOVE cochinita pibil! And I don’t think I’ve ever seen it on a menu here.
Would love to be able to attend this but looks like I’ll be at Burren Slow Food that weekend instead
Shelly said on April 22, 2011
Ooh, I like the look of this! Love mexican food.
Margaret O'Farrell said on April 22, 2011
Love Mexican food! Will get working on making myself available!
Kristin said on April 22, 2011
Count me in! Sounds like a fantastic night and it’s so generous of Lily to host this in her home.
Hey Pesto! said on April 22, 2011
Can’t believe I’m at a wedding that day – would love to have gone!
Caroline@Bibliocook said on April 22, 2011
I’m up for it too – another good food-related excuse to visit Dublin!
Quesadilla Lover said on April 22, 2011
Nice! I have a couple of friends who might be interested, I will tell them about this event
Sharon said on April 22, 2011
Oh, so sad to have to miss this, but we have a 40th to attend that day. Otherwise we would be all over this one! What a wonderful treat. I’ll console myself knowing I’ll be in Texas for 10 days in May eating as much Mexican food (and BBQ) and the law will allow.
Stasty said on April 23, 2011
I’m in, sounds like great fun.
Joanne Cronin said on April 23, 2011
Would absolutely love to attend this, but I’ll be on holidays (sampling seafood on the Algarve). Hope everyone who attends has a great time.
Lily Ramirez-Foran said on April 24, 2011
I’m so excited about the supper club guys! It will be lovely to show you some REAL Mexican food and none of this fajitas nonsense!
Joanna - Smörgåsblog said on April 26, 2011
Having tried Lily’s tamales I am definitely up for this. Count me in
Margaret O'Farrell said on April 26, 2011
Will definitely be along! So, so looking forward to it! :0
Margaret
Niamh said on April 28, 2011
Hey, I’d love to come and I have two more foodie friends who want to come too if you have space for us? Thanks so much for hosting this Lily!
Elaine said on May 5, 2011
Sounds Fantastic Lily. Having tasted your cooking, I’m sure it will all go down a treat. Best of luck with it. I’ll say a prayer for sunshine for those frozen margaritas
Lily said on May 9, 2011
Thanks Elaine!! Hope you can come, Jimmy would be happy!
Móna Wise said on May 16, 2011
Sounds amazing. I would love to go but cannot make it this time around. Hope there is another occasion soon. Hard to get good Mexican eats West of the Shannon!
David Havelin said on May 18, 2011
If there is still a space available, I’d love to participate.
Caroline@Bibliocook said on May 19, 2011
We’d love to have you! I’ll send you on an email with some details and directions now.
Sheila Kiely said on May 18, 2011
Yum. Will whoever’s going please take pics and blog some recipes for us.. cheers
Caroline@Bibliocook said on May 23, 2011
It was a brilliant afternoon – fantastic food, great company and lots of new things to learn. There there are a few recipes just up on our FB page: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.194408553938165.46561.140688702643484