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Week 29, Meal 1: Salmacado salad and the no-oil salad dressing
I think years of processed and fast foods muddled my expectations of what food could be, because every time Chef Brian puts together an all-star dish, I’m like “Dang, this is the best thing ever....
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Week 30, Meal 1: Mean green enchiladas
She’s gonna get pissed when I write this, but oh well. Wifey Nadia has some weird hang-ups about her Mexican food. She hates enchiladas because of the red sauce and can’t stand fajitas because of the...
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Week 31, Meal 3: The fiesta bowl
When I first started this blog, cooking was one of the worst ‘chores’ I had to do. I always felt like it was such a pain in the ass to cook my own meals everyday, so instead, I would hit the...
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Enfrijoladas locas!!!
My buddy Dave introduced me to enfrijoladas recently at a Santa Ana restaurant called Potzol den Cano and I have a continual craving for this dish, which is essentially enchiladas, but with bean...
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Stretching your pesos: Fat Dude’s Mexican fiesta, Part 2—Rice bowl with...
My main problem with restaurant rice bowls is the amount of rice they use. I’ve flipped out a rice bowl from Flame Broiler before and counted full 2 cups of rice. That’s 400 calories of non-nutritious...
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Stretching your pesos: Fat Dude’s Mexican fiesta, Part 3—Poached shrimp and...
We wanted to add some variety to our list of Mexican leftover meals so I picked up a couple pounds of shrimp at the market to throw in the mix. I knew I wanted to use the reserved braising liquid from...
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Stretching your pesos: Fat Dude’s Mexican fiesta, Part 4—Chicken quesadilla...
If a quick meal is what you need, look no further than the versatile quesadilla. The quesadillas of my youth were nuked in the microwave and made with Mission flour rounds filled with a couple of...
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Stretching your pesos: Fat Dude’s Mexican Fiesta, Part 6—Oregano-lime shrimp...
If you’ve been following along with our improvised Mexican menu, you’ll be happy to know we’re coming to the end of our south-of-the-border marathon. I’m happy to say I used nearly every last...
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Stretching your pesos: Fat Dude’s Mexican Fiesta, Part 7—Shrimp fried Mexican...
This is the last post of my “Stretching your pesos” series, which I essentially wrote because I made too much chicken for Nadia’s cousins and I had to figure out what to do with it. On a small scale,...
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Yucatecan classico: Cochinita pibil
I’ve had a continual craving for pibil–the classic southern Mexican pork (cochinita) or chicken (pollo) dish of braised meat wrapped in banana leaf–ever since I was introduced to the chicken variety...
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