On Friday night Gemma’s train arrived 10 minutes late, and due to this delay we were both ravenous by the time we dropped her stuff off and headed out to dinner. I had noticed a few weeks before that there is a Mexican restaurant only a few blocks from my house. With little debate, we walked over.
The restaurant, Dos Reales, is on University Ave., in Urbana. We were greeted with a friendly staff and a very young waiter who was ridiculously pleasant. A slight man of probably only eighteen. We decided it was worth going if only to make the acquaintance of the young man. Our feelings of fondness, thought to be at their peak, increased drastically when he walked over with two enormous mugs overflowing with horchata. Usually you get a small glass full of ice. But here we had Imperial Pints worth of horchata, and at only 1.50!
For those of you who do not know, horchata, also know as aguas frescas, is a drink usually made with rice and flavored with cinnamon, sugar, and/or vanilla. It is smooth and thin like rice milk with a perfect balance of sweetness and cinnamon. It is the perfect drink to go with Mexican food.
Gemma and I have been wanting to try to make horchata from scratch for quite some time and when we do I will certainly post what recipe we used and how it turned out.
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