A few times a year this center has a fund raiser and I just happened to see a mention of it in the paper that it was being held this last Thursday! Not much notice there! What they sell are a few food items... Indian Fry bread, Tacos on Indian Fry bread, did I mention Indian Fry bread?
I had read a review recently on the Chowhound site. A traveler just stumbling over this sale last year when she was driving through town, & saw a 'sandwich board' sign out front advertising Indian Tacos. Her review & timely occurence of the sale convinced me I had to try it. I'd never had fry bread before-- it sounded good to me.
So I decided to get 2 to go & surprise John with lunch. I walked into the storefront center, into a room with dining tables all filled with happy eaters. A little confusion over who was taking orders, but finally a young girl came from the kitchen to help me. Another young girl was busy at one of the tables chopping up tomatoes-- seemed an odd place to be doing food prep.
But this was a real community place & the Indian community was supporting their center that day. In this part of Mendocino & Lake county we have the Pomo Indians and a reservation north of town also. Now that I think of it, there are also several casinos scattered around too!
It was a bit of a wait, but 2 large, heavy to-go styrofoam containers came out for me. $5 each... they smelled delicious. I ran John's lunch over to his office... he seemed to be waiting by the front door, but he says he just happened to be passing through the office!! HA
The Indian Taco was very good, had all the fresh ingredients... meat, real beans, cheddar cheese, lettuce, tomato. In my mind I pictured fry bread as being thin & crispy, but this was thick & doughy-- but hot & tasted great. it was way too much food for me and very filling. Next year maybe we'll share one. read more