casa de suenos (tularosa)
One thing that I have learned is that the farther you are away from the Rio Grande Valley in New Mexico, the farther away you are from good New Mexican food. Even in the Cloudcroft-Alamogordo area, one basin to the east of the Big River, NewMex is mostly miss. And to the east of the Sacramentos on the Ogallala plains? Forget about it. That's why I was overjoyed to find Casa de Suenos, the House of Dreams, in Tularosa. Our neighbor in Cloudcroft turned us on to the Casa. After listing places to avoid in Alamogordo (in short, avoid them all), our culinary Mr. Rogers recommended Casa de Suenos. A town of about 2,500, there ain't much to Tularosa, but it is super quaint. Named after the rose-colored reeds that line Rio Tularosa, Tularosa was established in 1860 with an adobe core of its Catholic church and collection of original homes. The river still flows, feeding the acequias that spider across the old town core, creating an oasis of cottonwoods. Started in 2002, Ca...