Ever have a dish that you feel way too much emotion about? For some reason this dish has evoked everything from wistfulness to almost rage in me and it isn’t the dish’s fault at all. It all started when I saw the gorgeous photos in Real Simple magazine for this Camarones Enchilados recipe and immediately bookmarked it to make in the future. Not for the first time, the photo sold me on the dish before I’d even read the recipe. Then I found out that the recipe is from one of my favorite food bloggers, Always Order Dessert (otherwise known as Alejandra Ramos) and it made me even more convinced that I had to make it ASAP. I went right out after work to gather all the ingredients and called my friend at the last minute to see if he wanted to come have dinner with me. He couldn’t make it and I felt like the dish got rejected. So about a week later I decide to make it again, and by some cruel twist of fate, the friend I invited THAT night canceled on me at the last minute! I realize that I’m projecting my own feelings onto the dish but I feel bad for it and have been hoarding it for myself ever since for fear of hurting its pride even more. Those people don’t know what they’re missing! Maybe one day I’ll manage to throw a gathering and serve this dish to people who actually show up . . .
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