On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 13:49:11 GMT, April Grunspan
> wrote:

>Many years ago there was a small chain of restaurants in Guadalajara
>called Gemma. Their most popular item was tortas (ahogadas) sitting in a
>type of tomato-based sauce.
>
>Unfortunately, Gemma's is gone now and we no longer live in Guadalajara.
>
>The question is, does anybody here have a recipe for the Gemma torta
>ahogada sauce? Does anybody here even remember Gemma?
>
>Thanks to everyone is advance!
>April G.
>San Antonio, TX


I lived in the area 1995-6 and remember the ahogadas as being pork
(pierna) and the sauce based on chili de arbol (as Wayne indicates).
He mentions frying after the dunking, but I never saw that done, just
the soak.


jim