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I thought long and hard about this posting... stared at the blank page for a long time. I've been wanting to tell you all for weeks about this, but I couldn't. I've been bursting with excitment for a month and I had to keep it under wraps. This was a real killer for me, but we had agreed to wait till it was all official and that was that! The last week was torture, but now that it's all done and official, I simply don't know how to go about to tell you! So, I'm going to spit it out plain and simple:
My Mexican Shop Ltd.
is open for business!
A month ago, shortly after returning from my summer in Mexico and totally out of the blue, the lovely people from Almacen Latino asked us if we were interested in buying the Mexican Food side of their business as they wanted to concentrate their efforts on their Argentinian side and felt they couldn't give the Mexican side the attention and loving care it required. So after recovering from the shock, the other half and I sat down and had a few scary nights weighing the options.
Food has been a passion of mine for the last decade and sharing the joys of cooking authentic Mexican food (and non of that 'Tex-Mex' nonsense that often misrepresents Mexican cuisine) was the reason why I ended up writing my blog. So all of a sudden, I could find a way to do what I love (in a round about way) and get some money out of it (or so we hope!).
As many of you who follow my facebook page and the twitter @MexicancookEire account know, the last three months of my life have been a roller-coaster: The day my parents got their tickets to visit me in Ireland, my mother fell suddenly ill in Mexico and for a while it looked like she wasn't going to make it; the days and weeks were filled with worry and anxiety, torn between wanting to be by her side and not wanting to add to the panic that was setting in across the family. She had always been a healthy lady so to see her and hear her so weak and fragile was a terrible thing, a shock to my system. I, like many of us do, felt mam was invincible, mine forever and there for me always. Realization knocked on my door to tell me she won't be there always and all of a sudden, their trip to Ireland was the only thing I could hold onto to keep faith. She will pull through -I would say to my self - she will pull through...
And she did. And they both came. And the last month has been the most wonderful time for me. A chance for her to recover gently and for me to spend time with both my parents without having a hectic holiday schedule: we took gentle drives and even gentler walks, she slept a lot and we chatted quite a bit, we cooked together and we ate some more. We took the chance to show them all the foodie spots we now know and we shared with them some of the amazing friendships we have formed over the past five years. We ate our way through middle Ireland and we had a ball while at it.
