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Chicken Fajita Salad Recipe

Kickin’ Chicken Fajita Salad

So there I was, standing listlessly in the kitchen, staring at a frozen, vacuum-sealed chicken breast and a head of lettuce , trying to figure out how to make them into dinner. Lettuce wraps? Ain’t nothing but taco-impostors. Chicken caesar salad? Uuuggghhh. Sounds like girl-food. Then it hit me! Lime! A lime hit me in the face, [...]

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Flan Recipe

Flan

Cinco de Mayo is this weekend and if you’re not familiar, it’s kind of a big deal around these parts.

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How To Make Crispy Beef Tacos

Crispy Beef Tacos

We never, ever had McDonald’s when I was a kid, but Taco Bell was on the “okay sometimes” list. I don’t remember ever eating Taco Bell when we weren’t in the car, so it must have been some kind of back-up plan for food emergencies on the way to important places like the post office, [...]

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Chile Relleno Recipe

Chiles Rellenos

I was talking to my friend Estrella the other day and remembering the first time we made these together with her mother, Adriana. Estrella and I were in our early twenties, maybe even just twenty years old. It was my dad’s birthday dinner and you know, the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, I [...]

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Huevos Rancheros recipe

Huevos Rancheros

I know you know I love tacos, but what maybe you did not know is that I also love tostadas which are like tacos, but flat and hard to eat. Or flat and FUN to eat if you want to think positively about it, which I do. This thing I have for tostadas is the [...]

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Chicken Enchiladas Recipe

Green Chicken Enchiladas (Enchiladas Verdes)

A couple months back, I received an email that gently pointed out to me that there was not a chicken enchiladas recipe to be found anywhere on my site. Sacrilege! I was utterly mortified and sought to remedy this egregious oversight post haste! (“Post haste” in this instance evidently means more like what “post haste” [...]

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Cheese Enchiladas with Red Sauce

This was one of my favorite meals growing up. Corn tortillas filled with cheddar cheese and diced white onion, covered in red sauce, and heated just long enough for the cheese to melt, leaving the onions still crisp. My little brother hated onions when he was a kid, but my dad always insisted on putting [...]

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Tortilla Soup Recipe

Chicken Tortilla Soup

I have no idea what to write about this recipe except that it’s the best in the world and you must believe me. Please, do not turn your ear away from the apparent arrogance in my self-serving claim of it being the best chicken tortilla soup recipe in the world and just listen to this [...]

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