Tag: tex-mex
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Brisket birria tacos
This is a little something that won’t get a mention on a quick-and-easy Old El Paso authentic-Mexican-at-home shelf pack. This is the real McCoy, or the Mexican worded version thereof. This is brisket cooked down in a spicy, aromatic broth until its pull apart tender (and that broth is spicy and aromatic with things that […]
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Easy chicken crisp shell tacos
Some times when you take your children shopping with you they like to ask for things they may not normally be allowed to eat. Breakfast cereal that has more sugar than actual cereal, strange plastic looking loosely termed cheese slices, all of the confectionary section and crisp taco shells… they always want crisp taco shells. […]
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Beef shin chilli con carne nacho type things
Chilli is pretty simple. Fried tortillas are pretty simple. I am pretty simple. This is going to work out just fine. The thing about beef shin is that it scares a lot of people. Not like Jay Leno or carnival folk scary, but scary like changing a nappy for your best friends kid; it doesn’t […]
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The Twelve Days of Christmas (Ham Leftovers)… Breakfast Quesadilla
The Twelve Days of Christmas (Ham Leftovers) In our humble abode, post Christmas lunches, dinners and breakfasts are ofttimes (always) dictated by Christmas leftovers. There is always a tonne of cooked meats to get through as each year we seem to cook for ourselves plus a traveling troupe of carnie sex slaves… but the carnies […]
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Mango & Cactus Salsa… sure to improve your life
Salsa is a child of the summer. The moment I have made salsas three times in the same week is the exact same moment I swap my ensemble of a Darrel Summers’ jumper, sensible trousers and discount shoe mart runners for boardies, a singlet and thongs. When the salsas come out it means the weather […]
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The Pork Taco Challenge
Recently my friend Dana at I’ve Got Cake challenged me to a cook-off of an old school classic with a bit of new school flair. A bit of the old “take a dish everyone knows and loves and make it a little bit our own”. Well, at least that’s what I think we’re doing. I […]