mmm-yoso!!! is a blog. About food. Kirk, ed (from Yuma), Cathy and a few others just write about what we eat. Today, Cathy is is writing. Primarily because Kirk is on his way to Guatemala and ed (from Yuma) is…well, in Yuma.
Hi. It really hit 100 degrees in the East County on Monday. Dry, dry heat. It was exhausting to be outside, dangerous to touch anything inside the car and kind of miserable.
I didn't want to cook and was not that hungry.
OK. I lie. I am pretty much always hungry. But, well, not as much as usual. I needed something refreshing. As soon as it kind of sort of started too cool down, I headed West, toward the 15 and then one exit South, to Clairmont Mesa, took a left at the second light, Ruffin Road, by the Registrar of Voters and a right into the parking lot. Palominos #2. I've posted about this place before (when it was cold out, and I wanted something to warm me). It is a great taco shop. Satisfies many cravings as well as weather related meals…
I ordered, grabbed stuff from the "salad bar" area…which is really a salsa bar area, (but there are neon signs above it with "salad" above it) 
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Then waited for our meals to be ready.
The Mister got a shrimp salad ($6.35).
Lots of lettuce, tomato and cucumber, 12 fresh cooked, fresh chilled, sweet, large shrimp, a whole avocado, some shredded cheese. Served with the white dressing and sauces shown. I always need to mix the sauces and some of the "Palomino" salsa from the bar to get the flavor I want. Everything tastes good on its own, though.
I ordered the campechana coctele ($10.50). More than 16 whole, fresh cooked and chilled shrimp, a good portion of fresh cooked and chilled, tender octopus and at least one, maybe two chopped avocados in a wonderful tomato based sauce with cucumber. I tasted all the ingredients individually and only added hot sauce (and salsa) to the last half of the large, pretty solidly filled coctele bowl. Just for a variation.
This was a very refreshing meal. Hope you are getting through this heat wave.
Palomino's #2 9353 Clairmont Mesa Blvd., Suite I, 91911 (858)292-8470