Recipes & Cooking Notes
Recipes & Cooking Notes
Made chicken quesadillas largely following this recipe: Chicken Quesadillas Prep: 10 Minutes Level: Easy Cook: 30 Minutes Serves: 6 Ingredients 3 whole Boneless, Skinless Chicken Breasts 2 Tablespoons Taco Or Tex-mex Seasoning Vegetable Or Olive Oil For Frying 1 whole Large Onion 1 whole Large Bell Pepper (color Of Your Choice) 12 whole Small Flour […]
Made White Chicken Enchiladas largely following this recipe: http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/white-chicken-enchiladas/ White Chicken Enchiladas Prep: 45 Minutes Level: Easy Cook: 30 Minutes Serves: 6 Ingredients 2-1/2 cups Cooked, Shredded Chicken 2 cups Reserved Broth From Chicken 3 Tablespoons Canola Oil 12 whole Corn Tortillas 1 whole Large Onion, Diced 3 whole 4 Oz Cans Whole Green Chilies, […]
20160214 After finding copycat recipes of barbacoa using butt roasts, which I’m sure are good, but are not what I’m going for: http://www.thekitchn.com/recipe-to-feed-a-crowd-slow-cooker-barbacoa-beef-165301 This is a rather inauthentic recipe.^^ I finally found out how to make the “real” tex-mex barbacoa that are often found at restaurants the secret is BEEF CHEEKS! or Cacheta de rez: […]
Made some pretty good tex-mex chili the other day. Used 2 lbs of dry pinto beans, almost 3 lb of 73/27% ground beef. Made the beans the day before. Browned the beef the day before with salt, pepper, garlic, onion. Reheated the ground beef in pot while sweating 1.5 onions and two large jalapenos (diced, […]
Shrimp tacos: http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/shrimp-tacos/ actual recipe located here: http://tastykitchen.com/recipes/sidedishes/shrimp-tacos-3/ chicken tacos: http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/my-brothers-chicken-tacos/
Made Avocado “green sauce” largely following this recipe: Didn’t use cilantro, but this is pretty much the green sauce that I see at coco loco! Hooray! -Isaac 20150801 http://laylita.com/recipes/2013/01/29/avocado-sauce/ Avocado sauce Yield: ~2 ½ cups of avocado sauce Creamy avocado sauce recipe made with avocados, limes, cilantro, hot peppers, garlic, olive oil and cumin. This […]
To go with the tamales I made salsa de aguacate/avocado salsa. I was hoping the make the southwest green salsa I keep getting at restaurants, but it ended up more like an avocado sauce with some tang due to the tomatillos. It’s still good. update 20141215: I asked Reina how she makes her green salsa, […]
update 20141214: Made the tamales! They are quite tasty! First successful batch. Mostly followed the advice from the youtube video. You should definately watch the whole video before trying the first time. Tamales are a time consuming food, so a 30 min how-to video is worth it. Joepastry was a good start, but not the […]
20141109 Tried to make tamales this past weekend. I think the filling turned out really well, but bread-and-butter of a tamale is the masa. And we had two failed attempt at it. Most of the info is based on joepastry: http://www.joepastry.com/2012/making-classic-tamales/ But the more experience I get, the less I trust joe pastry’s tamale instructions. […]
Made borracho beans based on an amalgam of recipes, probably mostly followed the first one below, then derived inspiration from these other ones: http://www.insockmonkeyslippers.com/borracho-beans-pinto-beans-in-broth http://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/pinto_beans_with_bacon_and_jalapenos/ Borracho Beans with Shiner Bock Beer I soaked 1 lb sorted pinto beans overnight with 6 cups water. I then brought 8 cups of water to a boil, added the […]