Croswell couple shares Mexican heritage with others through new food truck

A Croswell woman is sharing her love of cooking and her Mexican heritage with other individuals through a new food truck.

Cynthia Mendoza opened Mama C’s North of the Border meals truck with her husband, Scott Lerma, late past month.

The truck serves traditional Mexican food items, these kinds of as tacos, burritos, tostadas, enchiladas, quesadillas and a lot more. Mendoza said she also makes her possess fresh tortilla chips.

Mendoza acquired her enjoy of cooking from her mother, who shared her Mexican heritage with her through cooking. Mendoza helped her mother cook tamales when a 12 months just before Thanksgiving, when her mom took orders from locals in their own tiny cottage marketplace.

“I appreciate cooking,” she said. “I just take pleasure in it.”

Mendoza and Lerma give up their total-time jobs to open the truck. When Mendoza has catered private occasions before, this will be their first time running a food items truck.

“I figured, why not check out it? Why not consider that leap of faith and just try anything different?” Mendoza claimed. “So I did.”

Mendoza reported she enjoys the flexibility and lower overhead price tag of the foods truck, exactly where she can select the functions she would like to show up at. A brick-and-mortar restaurant has to have regular hrs and isn’t going to lend her the very same liberty.

Mendoza stated she strategies to attend occasions in the Blue Drinking water Area, such as the St. Clair Art Good, Summerfest in Marysville and extra.

Croswell resident Stacie Bales stood in line for the foodstuff truck whilst it was parked outside the house the Social gathering Retailer Marathon gas station in Lexington Monday. She mentioned she is thrilled to have much more food choices in the space.

“It really is reliable and very great food,” she claimed.

The truck will up coming be open from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at the Marysville United Methodist Church, 721 West Huron Blvd.

To come across updates on the truck or to ask for its companies for a personal occasion, get in touch with (810) 357-4162 or verify out their Facebook site at Mama C’s North of the Border.

Get in touch with Laura Fitzgerald at (810) 941-7072 at [email protected] 

This report at first appeared on Port Huron Occasions Herald: Croswell few opens Mexican food truck