This year the highly anticipated local event, The Mexican Chili Cook Off, will be held February 10th, 11th and 12th, 2012.

This is an event that everybody seems happy to participate in was originally started by the late Morley Eager of La Nueva Posada 35 years ago.
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La Nueva Posada has long been the centerpiece of Ajijic, Lake Chapala. This family run business has been serving the lakeside and Guadalajara communities for 35 years. Now third generation family members are running the show overseen by Michael Eager and the original owner, Judy Eager.

La Nueva Posada is located in the village of Ajijic on Donato Guerra # 9. Tel. # 766-1444 and you can reach them by email at: nuevaposada@prodigy.net.
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All the festivities of the season are over or at least winding down. People are getting back to normal as house guests head back up north. Christmas trees are soon coming down if not down already. Fridges are being cleaned out and sheets and towels laundered.

We had a wonderful Christmas and New Years with family and very good friends but I am delighted the season is over as it seems to be a very hectic time of year.
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Christmas is over. The turkey has been eaten, the presents opened and returned and diets gone by the wayside.

Now we have New Year’s Eve to look forward to spending with family and friends. Many are having a quiet dinner at home or going to a house party and many others are going out to one the excellent restaurants here in Ajijic, Lake Chapala to partake of a gala New Year’s Eve Gourmet dinner with dancing and champagne at midnight.
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We have a lot going on this holiday season. All our children are home which is terrific. We are particularly happy our son and his fiancé are back safely from Phuket, Thailand.

We had a lovely adult Christmas Eve dinner at our house with family and dear friends and Christmas Day we also had dinner at home complete with all children and our almost 8 month old grandson and 6 year old step granddaughter. It was terrific to see Christmas through the eyes of young children and we are very grateful for our wonderful family.

We have three more formal dinners to go to over the next week and also a night out of dancing.

Things will settle down January 3rd, 2012 and then we have four weeks of relative peace and quiet before our family from up north start arriving for our son’s wedding in February. My husband, naturally, has invited them to all stay with us which is going to be a serious logistical problem which I will think about later.

By the end of February we will begin to see the light at the end of the tunnel and will look back on this time with fond warmth and treasure the great memories of us all being together.

Serious diets will be embarked on with great enthusiasm and rigid exercise programs reinstated.

Golf dates will resume and life will go on in our beautiful village in the sun.

We would like to wish everyone a Very Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year. We are all looking forward to 2012 being a better year for all

The New Monday Market at the Hole-in-One Restaurant was a huge success. There were wall to wall people and lots of wonderful sights and smells.

There is a guy from New York who makes the best meatballs you have ever tasted.
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There is an exiting new Monday Market at Carretara Chapala-Jocotepec # 89 in San Antonio Tlayacapan at the Hole in One Restaurant. Tel. (376) 766-4477.

The new Monday Market opens Monday, November 14th and the hours are from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm.

This new market features some of Ajijic’s best cooks and artisans selling prepared food to go and hand made craft items.

The market will have a enticing selection of baked goods, Middle Eastern Food such as hummus, roasted peppers and baba ganoush and much much more.

Also soups will be available.
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I have noticed for the last few days that Poncho, my friend, who runs Superlake in San Antonio Tlayacapan, has started to bake fresh goods every day. Today the aroma captured my attention and I bought a fresh healthy multi-grain baguette.

Now I consider myself a bit of a bread connoisseur and I can tell you it is the best bread I have ever eaten.
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Fall is officially here and it is decided cooler but still lovely and today is Canadian Thanksgiving.

We celebrated Thanksgiving yesterday as our son-in-law is a chef and has to work today.

It was truly a family affair but without the snow and football games. My husband did the appetizers and pre-dinner drinks. He made barbequed red and white wine salami with country Dijon mustard and chili gueras stuffed with an Asian beef and pork concoction reminiscent of the filling in Crystal Chop, a wonderful Asian dish with iceberg lettuce. He made a pitcher of Whiskey Sours which were very 30’s and reminded me of a cocktail hour with Cole Porter.
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Friday, September 30th, the Hole in One Restaurant on the carretera in San Antonio Tlayacapan across from the Chula Vista Country Club reopened. It was standing room only as patrons were offered free margaritas, botanas and live music. It was a very successful reopening and we wish them the best of luck in this less than perfect economy.

This is our local restaurant and the food is excellent with even better prices. The menu is limited at the moment but they are quickly adding new items to it.

Soup of the day is offered along with Salmon Carpaccio (thin slices of smoked salmon Carpaccio with capers aioli and Parmesan cheese).

Poire Salad (fresh organic lettuce with pears, pistachios, sesame seeds, goat cheese, asparagus with a balsamic vinaigrette and white wine). Very tasty.

Grilled Calamari (American Calamari marinated and finished on the grill with eggplant and cherry tomatoes).

For the main they have:

Lamb Shank (slow cooked and baked with a variety of spices served with cambray potatoes with fine herbs with raspberry jelly and sautéed vegetables).

Beef Filet (USDA choice medallions of beef with mushrooms and Parmesan cheese served with mashed potatoes and sautéed vegetables).

Grilled Salmon (Salmon filet marinated in ginger, mint and honey served with couscous and sautéed asparagus). The couscous was the best I have ever tasted.

Lasagna (meat lasagna with pomodoro sauce mozzarella and Parmesan cheeses and served with spinach salad and sautéed green beans.

Dessert is Chocolate pudding with pecans and special desserts.

The new chef is Erika Delgadillo Fernandez formerly of Number FOUR.

The phone # for reservations is 766-4477.

I personally have had the Lamb Shank, Beef Filet and Grilled Salmon and all were excellent.

I hope everyone supports this very welcome reopening.

Buen Provecho!

I know I have blogged about Laurent before but after last night’s dinner I wanted to blog about it again.

Laurent is the wonderful French chef at Laurent Cuisine at Hotel Casa Blanca in Ajijic on 16 de Septiembre # 29 across from the Lake Chapala Society.
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