For part of our anniversary celebration we had a wonderful lunch at Rosa Mexicano. For dessert, I couldn't resist trying the chocolate ice cream with 'candied bacon.' It was a limited edition flavor as part of their ice cream festival:
Helado de Chocolate Negra Modelo/ Chocolate Negra Modelo ice cream with salted cajeta and candied bacon.
The ice cream was delicious and had just enough bite. The bacon lent a nice salt to the flavor. It definitely works with chocolate. The only thing I didn't like was the frozen bacon pieces were chewy and limp rather than crisp as when it's in a bar of chocolate. That was a real downer, so I doubt I'd order it again. But it was a nice try.
For my main dish, I also had chocolate:
Mole Xico/ Beef [photo at left]
Two soft corn tortillas [I requested Flour] filled with shredded chipotle beef. Topped with veracruz mole made with raisins, plantains, hazelnuts, pine nuts and ancho and pasilla chiles. Garnished with crema and queso fresco.
Mole is a chocolate sauce, but you wouldn't know it. It was very heavenly. I could eat it every day and never tire of it. It was smooth and rich. I don't normally ingest hazelnut, especially with chocolate, but it worked in this dish; probably because of all the other goodies. This was an excellent mole!
We ALSO ate at La Sandia earlier the same week and I ordered:
CHICKEN MOLE POBLANO pan roasted chicken breast / mole poblano / mexican rice / refried black beans / fried plantains / sesame seeds
It was to die for as well. The best mole I've ever had.
We ordered the sopapillas for dessert, but they were small and crispy. I like mine soft and only lightly golden on the outside. a disappointment- luckily I was pretty stuffed from dinner anyway. [the gauc was the best ever, oops, that's not chocolate, sorry!]
The margaritas at both places were very delicious- with lots of choices, but since they are not about chocolate, I won't mention them here.
Bon appétit! or maybe I should say,
¡buen provecho
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