Well the other day I got real sick from too much drinking and then not eating well.  After getting sick, I  had not eaten in three days when the the cleaning lady was to come over and clean my house.  Being that I don’t think I could stand the smell of cleaning materials I called my cleaning lady to cancel her visit.  When I called to cancel, she asked, Por Que – Why?  I explained, she said OK.  Well she shows up to my house anyway but having gone to the market first to buy chicken and vegetables to make a soup and herbs to make me a tea.  She said you have to eat and that she was going to make a soup and a herbal tea.  GREAT.

She made the best soup I have every had.  I had two big bowls and drank the tea.  I was feeling better within a couple of hours.  I had enough soup left over for two days which was fine with me because, well, it was good.  Then it was gone.

I told a neighbor friend of mine that I wanted more soup and she told me where I could get some “good chicken soup” at a neighborhood  cafe and that it was “cheap.”  So I went to the place my friend suggested, a place that is real small, only two tables.  I sat down,  I ordered my chicken soup.  Well I was surprised when my chicken soup arrived because sitting in the middle of the soup was a chicken foot, or maybe ET had lost a body part!  No kidding, see picture below.

I wondered, did they just toss the whole chicken into the pot? The soup was good, but I did not touch the foot.   When I told a Mexican friend of mine about the chicken foot he  says, “You gringos crack me up sometimes,” because he never thought it “weird” to have a chicken foot in chicken soup, because HELLO, it is chicken soup.

Funny in that all the time that I lived in Dallas, I was Latino, Mexican-American or Hispanic and now that I have moved back to the land that was my grandparents, Mexico, I am GRINGO!  LOL