Elotes y Eskites

One of the delicious and personally fav snack its the local famous Eskites and Elotes, you will find that corn (elotes) is a common snack and mealtime staple. In Mexico people sell them on streets, carrying the hot pots of salted water along and yelling -Elotes!!-

Sometimes the corn is cut off the cob and put in a cup then the mayo or cream, cheese, a few drops of lime juice, chilli powder are put on top of it. Sometimes they leave it on the cob and just pour the chile pepper and squeeze lemon juice onto it. Here`s the recipe:

Ingredientes

3-6 Corns (whole) Boiled into water

(add 2 Ts of sugar to boiling water to sweeten it)
1 lime cut half
6 tea spoon of Mayonnaise
1/4 t. spoon of chilli powder
1 Cup of Grated Parmesan Cheese


Boils the corns and add 2 tables spoon of sugar to boiling water. Let them air cool!! Put the cheese over a flat plate, rub the lime over the corn, with a spoon rub the mayo all over the corn. Roll every corn on the plate with the cheese on it, sprinkle the chilli powder and salt –to ur taste- ( u can also use the valentine sauce), and voilà!

Derivated from the nahuatl name, “Mina place”, in honor of the revolutionist Francisco Javier Mina.

Minatitlán is a city in the southeastern part of the Mexican state of Veracruz. It serves as the municipal seat for the surrounding municipality of the same name; it stands on the railway and on Federal Highway 121. The city had a 2005 census population of 109,791, while the municipality had a population of 151,983. The municipality has an areal extent of 4,123.91 km² (1,592.25 sq mi) and includes many small outlying communities such as Cosoleacaque.

Much of the city sits on reclaimed marshlands, and many new homes built on this reclaimed land have a tendency to sink as much as several feet before settling. Much of the surrounding undeveloped land is marshy, especially toward the northeast en route to Coatzacoalcos.

There is a large Zapotec indian (often referred to colloquially as "Tec(o/a)s" or "paisan(o/a)s") population in Minatitlan. They are easily recognizable in their traditional Zapotec clothing. Most speak Spanish, but their traditional Zapotec language is still in common usage among them.

There`s another city with the same name Minatitlán in the state of Colima, on the other side of the country.

One of Mexico's six oil-refining facilities is located there. The refining complex processes 291,000 barrels a day and produces diesel, fuel oil, and gasoline. The local economy basically depends on the petroleum industry. But some fruits are also cultivated in the area.