Mexican food...

[Tex]

You guys like it? Seem like everyone does, and every state has their own spin on it. Post up your favorit dishes...

My favorite Tex-Mex dish is beef enchiladas... Great with brisket... Here is how I rolled this past Saturday....

Cut it into 2 pieces...

Into a preasure cooker with water...

Use your favorite Chile mix or your won spices, I just bought 2 of these kits. Each for 2 lbs of meat, so I use 1 and .75 of the other kit...

Make sure pressure cooker has plenty of water, you can always boil it off later if too much. If you do it right, you can cook this like 45 minutes, I took longer because I was always checking it was worried about burning it... I cook it for while first with none of the spice, it gets some foam, I soup that out, after it cooks for a while, then I add all the spice less the flower/masa.

Testing here to see how done it is, not ready, I want it tender!!!

Oh yeah, this is what I want!!

Get those tortilats goiing, need to get them in hot oil to soften them up, otherwise they will break when you try and roll them up. You can put them in foil to keep them warm and good till read to use...

Side of refined bean...

My son said it was great, he is the enchilada connoisseur..

 

[slowrider]

There's a Mexican bakery in town, delicious.

 

[scott43]

I will say, it's TOUGH getting good Mexican food up here. I miss that from being down in South Colorado/Arizona/Florida. We have a lot of authentic cuisine up here in immigrant communities, but Mexican is hard to find.

Anyone got a good bowl of red recipe?

 

[Snowfan]

As a fellow Texan, I can confirm the above recipe is correct. And delicious. For days.

 

[Unpiste]

Hold on…

 

[Unpiste]

 

[wooglin]

Well that’s just downright cruel.

 

[Jacob]

Not many options here in the UK. I’m lucky if I can get mediocre Mexican food to hold me over. It’s one thing I miss from doing site visits in London for work. I haven’t had any Mexican food for a few months due to lockdown.

 

[fatbob]

Easy enough to make your own fajitas etc even in yookay. But I can't recall ever having had great Mexican food anywhere even hip places like Wahaca. Best concentrating on varieties of curry where we have a massive advantage over the US.

 

[Unpiste]

Never realized you had Five Guys over there. (Found the one next to Wahaca Islington by accident. Looks like a nice spot they have!)

 

[Jacob]

Easy enough to make your own fajitas etc even in yookay. But I can't recall ever having had great Mexican food anywhere even hip places like Wahaca. Best concentrating on varieties of curry where we have a massive advantage over the US.

I found a place by Covent Garden that is decent enough for me, and the prices aren’t too bad for central London. There’s also a Chipotle near one of the sites I cover (off Oxford St.), but I’ve never really been a fan of Chipotle. I prefer Taco Bueno for my fast food Mexican when I’m in the parts of the US that have Bueno.

 

[Jacob]

Never realized you had Five Guys over there. (Found the one next to Wahaca Islington by accident. Looks like a nice spot they have!)

Five Guys was expanding pretty rapidly before the pandemic. There are quite a few locations in the UK, and I walked by a couple of locations that were about to open up in Rome when I was there in October 2019.

 

[Jim Kenney]

need to invite @Tex with enchiladas to next May Gathering at A-Basin, probably 2022.

When they bury me cause of death will be Five Guys fries.

 

[Tex]

Anyone got a good bowl of red recipe?

Here is how I like to look at it. I actually have a big spread sheet, with a ton of chili recipies in it, and I put it all on a % basis. But get yourself a container, mark it off in sections (10ths or 20ths). Option 1 below, this is basically what Wick Fowlers, Texas Style chili kits uses. Option 2, small change I like to make is less Chili powder and more cumin. So this is how it works, say option 1, fill the container up 65% with chili powder, next 10% Cumin, etc....This is your chili mix. Take your cooked meat, add your chili mix to taste. Add water or maybe it is already in with the meat like I did above. Add flour (or masa) to thicken it up. And really this is it. Play around with different %, fine what you like. Instead of minced oinion or garlic powder, maybe use real onions and garlic. Also you say "red" in your post, some people add tomato sauce, or tomato paste, this makes it red. I think Texas style is to leave out tomatoes, I do. I have done it many times both way, my son likes it left out, my daughter likes it added, but she also really likes spaghetti sauce..

 

[ADKmel]

My stomach is growling... YUM!!!

 

[Unpiste]

 

[Tex]

Pics below my lovely and talented wife, salsa is her specialty... she has can tomatoes in there, half onion, several garlic cloves, fresh cilantro, taco seasoning, cumin, and there is 3 fresh jalapenos in there...

I posted this pic before, but my daughter made these tacos for me, she is very creative with her cooking, they were delish. She has speical way with the tortillas and her specialty sauce I do not know how she makes, if you are interested I will get her recipe for you, but it is so good!

I did this the chili the other night.. My spice mix...

2 lbs of meat, used this stuff my wife bought..

All ingredients above, with water...

I added 3 spoons of flour to thicken it up...so like 20 ml each, 60 ml total. Gradually do this and mix in water first to no drop in flower lumps...

Once you got this made, you can do anything with it...May creative daughter did this...

I did some nachos...You got to be careful your taste buds will OD with flavor!!

 

[crgildart]

There's no such thing as bad Mexican food.

 

[Tex]

There's no such thing as bad Mexican food.

Kinda hard to mess up, but it can be done. As soon as I want to just "go by feel" and not look at my notes, it turns out not so go. And I get an earful from my son, who is extremely meticulous with his cooking.

 

[Tex]

Few dishes lately... Love green chili sauce. You can put on anything. I have tried all kinds of ways of making it. This is my favorite recipe so far, I may have a better one for you in the future:

* 5 jalapenos, big ones...Slice, and wash out like half the seeds, depending on how hot you want it.
* 1 full clove of garlic..
* Probably 1/4 bushel of fresh cilantro.. No stems..
* Lime juice (half)
* 60ml olive oil
* 60ml water
* 1 tea spoon of 1) Chicken bullion, 2) Cumin, 3) pepper.

Blend in a blender...

Delicious!!