Mexican Pastries

I am not a huge fan of pastries. Donuts? Cinnamon buns? Most baklava? Powered sugar-covered anything? Yech. I can’t really take it. It’s not the dough; it’s the sugar. Too much concentrated sugar, too much glaze, too much sweet sticky syrupy stuff.

But here in Texas, we have MEXICAN bakeries. Who sell MEXICAN pastries. And they are oh-so-delicious. No glaze, no syrup, no overwhelming sweetness. Just yumminess. Every time we visit Corpus (or they come here), Jose’s mom gets us a big box of stuff from La Michoacana, which is down the road from her house. You can eat most of the items for either breakfast OR dessert.

So when we went to Mi Tierra for lunch last Saturday in San Antonio, I thought that their panaderia (bakery) was pretty much the most awesome thing that I’d seen all week.

The smile on my face is because I’m thinking about all the pastries I’m going to get after I finish my tacos. (Hmm. Perhaps I should have skipped the tacos to have more room for sweet breads. Oh well, too late. The tacos were yummy too.)

And here’s the other thing. Mexican pastries are super cheap! When I lived in my old apartment, there was a Mexican bakery down the street and when my mom visited, she’d stop there each morning when she got back from walk. You can get a whole bag of sweet bread and assorted goodies for something like $2.
YUM.