Monica Loera Sanchez 🌹🇲🇽🇺🇸

Momma, New Grandma, Guerrillera Chichimeca y Tejana, Author, Grant Writer, Helper, Adventurer, Learner, Creator, Traveler, ♉, Jokester, BS Detector & Friend.

[Monica Loera Sanchez 🌹🇲🇽🇺🇸 @mlosan]

Why yes, @GregAbbott_TX @KenPaxtonTX that is my leftover commissary money debit card & yes I did just spend it all in one place like your 🐷 instructed me to: 1 of my favorite ATX bud dispensaries for a delicious refill. #ComeAndTakeIt
#Texas
#TexasGOP
#VetoAbbott
#FuckYou

[ESPN FC @ESPNFC]

The backdrop of Monterrey's World Cup stadium is STUNNING 🤩🇲🇽

[Monica Loera Sanchez 🌹🇲🇽🇺🇸 @mlosan]

@edgarantonioloz Yummy!! I was just thinking I need to learn how to make gorritas!

[Monica Loera Sanchez 🌹🇲🇽🇺🇸 @mlosan]

1st time making chicharrón en salsa roja and its delish!! 😍😋

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

When you eat Mexican food, your brain releases endorphins and dopamine. Capsaicin, the compound in chili peppers, binds to pain receptors in your mouth. Your brain reads this as a threat and counters with feel-good chemicals. The burn in a good salsa triggers the same pathway as a runner's high.

This is all happening on top of a food tradition more than 3,000 years in the making. The tortilla in a chicharron taco exists because of nixtamalization, a process Mesoamerican cooks developed roughly 3,200 years ago. Corn kernels are soaked in lime water, which releases niacin, a B vitamin that corn otherwise locks away in an indigestible form. Without this step, corn-heavy diets cause pellagra, a B-vitamin deficiency that killed around 7,000 Americans per year at its peak in the early 20th century. Southern sharecroppers were eating corn without the process Mexico had preserved for three millennia.

In 2010, the UN added Mexican cuisine to its Intangible Cultural Heritage list, the first year any national food culture had ever qualified. The application covered seed preservation, farming customs, ritual preparation, and thousands of years of cooking knowledge passed through communities.

The diversity inside that designation is hard to picture. Mexico has 59 varieties of heirloom corn, more than 60 distinct chili pepper types, and 32 states with cuisines different enough that Oaxacan mole negro (a dark sauce from dried chili and chocolate) and Yucatecan cochinita pibil (slow-roasted pork in a smoky red spice paste) share almost no ingredients. Oaxaca alone has more than 20 types of mole. Mole poblano uses more than 20 ingredients, including several chili varieties, dark chocolate, and cinnamon, in a single sauce.

Chicharron fires three systems at once. Fat carries flavor deep into the palate. The crunch comes from pork skin dried, then dropped in 375-degree oil. The trapped moisture turns to steam, puffs the skin, and produces thousands of flavor compounds through the same browning chemistry that makes coffee and seared meat smell incredible. Then the salsa lands capsaicin on top of everything and the dopamine kicks in.

The "best food ever" reaction has a chemical basis. You are tasting dopamine from capsaicin, browning chemistry from pork fat at high heat, and a tortilla built on a process 3,200 years old. These flavors were engineered to do exactly this.

[You Had One Job @YouHadOneJ0B]

Mexico fan getting searched before going into the stadium at the World Cup. 😂#WorldCupRussia2018

[YSN Sancho🇲🇽🇺🇸 @YSN_Sancho]

Incase anyone wants to help out and get some good food.. it’s for my nephew that passed away during the honking on military…

[Monica Loera Sanchez 🌹🇲🇽🇺🇸 @mlosan]

many other white women exactly like you @VikkiGoodwinTX who like to think of yourselves as our saviors?? You reside over Travis County hun, STFU with this crap. Such caucacity!!

[Monica Loera Sanchez 🌹🇲🇽🇺🇸 @mlosan]

FFS why is it always the white blonde woman who doesn't even live in the city where this happened inserting herself into this situation thru a mediocre statement?? What is your constant need to feel like the woman who's going to fix this for everyone?? What is it with soooo

[Rep. Vikki Goodwin @VikkiGoodwinTX]

Please see my statement regarding the Karmelo Anthony ruling today.

[Monica Loera Sanchez 🌹🇲🇽🇺🇸 @mlosan]

@DealinRugs @socalsalty get out more. 🤣🤣🤣

[Raúl Flores @raulflorescoy]

¡Ah raza! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Paul Robertson 🇺🇸 @ShadeSalvo]

🚨SCREWWORM

Photo sent to me by a veterinarian friend of mine. A deer has been found in the central Texas area that has been infected with screwworms

Below is a photo of the aftermath

This ain’t good, guys. Please share so your rancher friends know it’s quickly moving north

[Monica Loera Sanchez 🌹🇲🇽🇺🇸 @mlosan]

@HildaVi27188251

[Sérgio Santos @ZAMENZA]

Os mexicanos sabem comemorar.

[Ban @BanButterfly]

Gracias a este partido inaugural me enteré que Sudafrica es algo así como la Argentina del continente africano

Todos sus vecinos los odian

[Marie🌸 @ma_fe79]

El diluvio que está cayendo y aún así la gente celebrando en el Ángel 😭🫶🏻🇲🇽✨

[Rafael, um socialista de iPhone @tuitero_rafael]

na moral quem teve a ideia de colocar eua e canada nessa copa é inimigo da felicidade e deveria ser preso

[Nicolás Cadena @nicocadena_]

🔥🇲🇽 Maná se pasó el juego de la vida del cantante.

Increíble ambiente y extraordinaria energía.

TODO EL ESTADIO AZTECA CANTANDO EL OYE MI AMOR.

[Monica Loera Sanchez 🌹🇲🇽🇺🇸 @mlosan]

We're at the point where every single day I am ghosted by a @capmetro bus. Its like they just gave up completely. The app is nowhere near accurate. @capmetroceo continues collecting her taxpayer funded paycheck with zero service improvements. Things that make you go hmmmmmm.

[MedioTiempo @mediotiempo]

Dos MEXICANOS que nacieron donde se les dio la gana 🇲🇽 🔥

📸 Reuters

[El Guarromántico @Guarromantico_]

Todo México en estos momentos 👏🇲🇽

[Monica Loera Sanchez 🌹🇲🇽🇺🇸 @mlosan]

This "real Mexican" told work I have a headache, watching #México 🇲🇽 WIN is better than work!!! Vamos!!!

[Max Bean(er) @maxbeanrr]

Real Mexicans will be watching from work not calling out