Cinco De Mayo

[filkertom]

Here's the skinny, and here is the fattening stuff.

What's your favorite Mexican or Tex-Mex food? I adore huevos rancheros, practically live on chips and salsa, and can't imagine life without crunchy tacos (especially with really good beef or shredded turkey, and using Ortega mix, which may not be strictly authentic but has excellent flavor and salt as the third ingredient, unlike pretty much every other taco seasoning mix out there which has salt as the first).

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[trdsf.livejournal.com]

...he asks while I nosh on nasty 25c frozen Kroger's burritos. Such timing.

There is a Mexican place half a block from my apartment that has chicken fajitas that I can never get past on the menu. Every time I go there, I swear I'm going to try something different... and almost every time, I end up with their chicken fajitas.

The few times that I don't end up with their chicken fajitas, I end up with their shredded beef fajitas. Seriously, if you love your Mexican food, you gotta go there next time you're in Columbus.

Estrada's. King Avenue. Just killer.

[drzarron.livejournal.com]

Its hard to beat a good Taco. I'm also a fan of seafood nachos.

But the seafood chimichanga with a dab of sour cream.. yum. Hey, I said it was good, didn't say it was healthy.

[bald-ruminant.livejournal.com]

Carne asada.

[suburbfabulous.livejournal.com]

I know it's not quite Mexican, but there's a local place that makes pulled-pork nachos...and they're so good it should be criminal!

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

Pollo mole y cerveza. Yum!

[sydb42.livejournal.com]

Today is also my younger daughter's first birthday! :)

As for my favorite mexican food, I'm going with the burritos. Boring, yes, but very yummy.

And, in honor of the day, I'm having breakfast Taquitos (ok, really it's because they're in the freezer and a quick and easy breakfast). ;)

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday to the young'n!

[annechen-melo.livejournal.com]

Baja-style fish tacos.

[brithistorian.livejournal.com]

Mmmmm. Tacos, taquitos, flautas, chiles rellenos, soapapillas - I love it all! I don't know what you call them, but once in a while when my mom was feeling ambitious she'd make tacos where she'd put the already-cooked meat in a flour tortilla and then fry it; that was really good, but since it was so much more work than just opening a box of shells we rarely had it.

[ladysprite.livejournal.com]

Homemade chicken enchiladas. A heck of a lot of work, and almost impossible without a decent sous-chef, but so incredibly worth it in the end....

[dr-zrfq.livejournal.com]

In a close three-way race, pollo mole wins by a nose over grilled fish tacos and by a head over New Mexico style green chile stew.

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

Crunchy tacos, almost any kind. Carnitas, 'cuz pork fat rules in any country! Baja-style fish tacos, despite the obvious crude jokes.


It bemuses me that the ingredients for Mexican food are almost universal in US grocery stores now. We used to have to mail care packages of taco seasoning from Los Angeles to our relatives in Upstate New York, 20 years ago.

[beldar.livejournal.com]

A good chili relleno, especially since so few Mexican (or Tex-Mex) places prepare them correctly (hint: bathed in scrambled egg is WRONG)

I'm also a sucker for anything with mole or chorizo.

And if there's Gringos in the kitchen (unless it's an Americanized chain)-- I'm outathere!

[palenoue.livejournal.com]

Picadilo is my fave. Whenever I mix that up I always make extra to make taco/burrito snacks later on. Ceviche is a close second.

And beldar, don't be a culinary bigot ;-) The best Mexican (and generally south american) restaurant food I ever had was from a Canadian chef, and the absolute worst was from a place run by a mexican family. I mean it, students would eat there so they could get sick the next day and avoid tests. Really!

[wouldyoueva.livejournal.com]

If the place is called "Salsa Grill," you'd be crazy not to have the salsa. Which is how I discovered their great salsa, even good on the Utz's tortilla chips they serve them on.

I appreciate what you have to say about Ortega. I feel the same way about McCormick's fajita seasoning.

[greenlantern-oa.livejournal.com]

From greenlantern_oa 's wife.........

For me I love anything that is authentic Mexican food, especially since my grandma and mother can cook pretty much any food dish that is Mexican (we are from Mexico)! =D I would love to learn how to cook them all but I can make huevos rancheros with some salsa that will make heads spin! Oh, and I love Barbacoa which is shredded beef but made with certain seasonings...I would kill for some of those right now!! Too bad many people don't really know why Cinco de Mayo is actually celebrated...since many believe its Mexico's Independance. =(

it WAS a good tamale!

[birder2.livejournal.com]

I bought an expensive, authentic-looking, wrapped-in-what-LOOKED-like-cornhusk tamale at the supermarket yesterday to have for Cinco de Mayo. It was very good. Had it with a quite decent guacamole since the avacado I bought several days ago had finally gotten ripe.
Inspired by a cookbook by R. Bayless called "Mexico One Plate at a Time" I plan to have a chicken/onion/green pepper quesidilla for supper.

Fresh Tortillas

[ixias.livejournal.com]

Not so much a particular dish, but my father makes the best homemade flour tortillas. Uncle Richard worked in construction some of the Latinos on the crew taught him the recipe and he taught dad.