Thursday, July 27, 2006

Chilaquiles are a traditional Mexican dish consisting of fried tortilla chips, bathed in green or red salsa or mole. and broiled or grilled with a cheese topping. Sometimes chicken strips are mixed into the sauce, or the dish can be served with a fried egg on top or a strip of meat alongside.
They are most commonly eaten at breakfast time.
Unlike nachos which are served as a crispy snack, chilaquiles are a main dish and are not served until the tortilla chips are thoroughly soaked and softened by the salsa. This makes them a popular recipe for stale chips or those with a bad taste as the other flavors mask the chips
Those wacky guys are at it again at wikipedia
Chilaquiles are the traditional mexican breakfast that can be bolsterd by any number of meats and vegi

Chilaquiles ala Gringo
  1. Cut corn tortillias into triangles and fry un till just barley crisp
  2. Next cube up some leftover steak ,roast, or use some caned roastbeef drained and rinsed
  3. Fry up some chrorizio
  4. Add one can mild diced chiles
  5. And one cup of good fresh salsa
  6. Toss in your cooked beef And add your chips
  7. Then add some canned enchalada sauce and cook for five minutes stiring often
  8. Empt this mix into a baking dish and add cheese on top and bake at a high temp 400 for a
  9. few minutes untill the cheese has melted
  10. Pull it out wack you self off a chunk and top sour cream
  11. Goes great with eggs anyway you like them.

Monday, July 24, 2006

Ceviche

Grab your self your favorite Mexican beer and get ready for a great summer time treat. there is no cooking involved but it dose take 24 hours in the fridge


This recipe starts off with a salsa base so let starts off there.
Salsa fresca

  1. Take 5 to 7 roma tomatoes dice finely
  2. Finely diced yellow onion (or white just not the red kind)
  3. Finely diced garlic 2 cloves to a whole head of the stuff I like it strong!
  4. Add two large jalapeƱos
  5. Dice five or ten or radishes depending on size
  6. Peel and seed then dice one large cucumber
  7. Fire roast 1 or 2 ears of fresh corn (what? Just peel and clean corn then roast over burner for a few
  8. inutes till it just barely burns)
  9. Dice one each small red green yellow bell pepper
  10. Juice 2-3 limes
  11. And salt and pepper to taste
  12. This mix will marry over night in the fridge or use it right away

    Next the sea food mix
  13. Some fresh white fish diced finely
  14. Nice small bay shrimp
  15. Fresh small bay scallop
  16. The juice of 10 to 15 limes
  17. You can always buy a nice jug of fresh juice its ok
  18. Now you need to marinade the fish in the juice for at least 24 hours
  19. The acid will cook the seafood.
  20. Drain the seafood and ad this to the salsa mix
  21. Then give it a generous glug of catsup (a glug is a technical term for when you turn a bottle of catsup upside down and shake it till you hear glug then stop about 4 table spoons)
  22. I like to ad a finely diced avocado
  23. Then and here is the important part
  24. Make sure you have your beer on ice and some tortilla chips kick back and enjoy.