Why oh why did I read this thread right before dinner?
All I can think of is a thick prime rib with plenty of au-jus, baked potato with sour cream/chives/cheese, maybe a half artichoke or artichoke dip before the meal arrives, salad dripping in bleu cheese dressing. Garlic bread too. And fresh hot dinner rolls.
Or lobster so fresh the poor thing's screams are still echoing around the kitchen
One of the nice things about my vacation in Mexico (the fun low-budget kind you do right after college) was the fact that each place we stopped to camp or go diving, if we couldn't catch our own seafood, a nice local vendor would eventually wander past with fresh stuff for sale. We bought a dozen live lobster for about 50 cents each one night, gutted and roasted them over our campfire. Complemented our fish tacos and wine/beer/whatever perfectly. For entertainment, we watched pelicans dive on a school of fish trapped in the little bay we camped near.
We drove a few hundred miles down the baha peninsula and dove from a place called El Requeson. Beautiful little town that hadn't yet been ruined by the tourist industry, we made a trek to the "RO water" dealer every few days, hit the local resturant twice that week, and the rest of the time ate what we caught or bought from the vendors. Camped on the beach. Not one of us got food poisoning, although I caught the flu from another person on the trip.
I'm sure if we'd wanted dog, goat, pig, donkey, whatever, all we'd have to do is cough up the right amount of pesos or dollars
