It's pronounced Moh-lay

A mole is the little vermin digging a tunnel through your back yard that causes your dog to begin excavating cubic yards of material in a futile attempt to remove that scourge from the face of the earth. Mole (pronounced moh-lay) is a central Mexican sauce that is a mixture (in the local language mole translates as "mixture") of various types of ingredients.

Several years back, I took Ms Cocktail on a surprise trip to 10,000 Waves, a truly wonderful Japanese resort/spa nestled in the hills outside Sante Fe, New Mexico. It is the kind of place that one goes to unplug from the world and do a complete reset of your nervous system. However, one of my co-worker's daughter's roomate (how do ya like that for several steps removed) was the maitre d' of a little restaurant in the historic section of Sante Fe named Cafe Pasqual's. I was told that it would be worth visiting this restaurant and was I ever not disappointed. It was here that Ms Cocktail and I were first introduced to the gastronomic delight that is mole.

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