Tex-Mex
Chilaquiles
Chilaquiles recipe video – scroll down for printable recipe Chilaquiles are known throughout Mexico to be the best, most reliable hangover cure that exists (especially when paired with a michelada, wink wink!). They are probably one of the simplest Mexican breakfast recipes around, too. It starts out similar to making migas, with frying some corn…
Read MoreEnchiladas Bandera! Vegetarian Enchiladas
This year, for Cinco de Mayo, I finally managed to get it together enough to plan (a whole 48 hours in advance) with our friend Carlos to share his mom’s avocado enchiladas recipe — aka Enchiladas Banderas. We’ve been talking about doing this recipe for over a year, since the first time he made these…
Read MoreMexican Pizza!
Hey what’s round and fried and red all over? An anthropomorphised beach ball who fell asleep in a tanning booth as if that were even possible? Wrong! It’s a Mexican Pizza, duh. What the fudge is a Mexican pizza, you ask? Oh my gawd. HAVE YOU EVEN HEARD OF TACO BELL??? A Mexican pizza is…
Read MoreGorditas
Gorditas roughly translates into “little fatties”, which is a reference to their appearance — fat, stuffed corn tortillas — and possibly your appearance as well if you eat too many. A play on my “Healthy vs Hell-with-it” theme, these are basically Tuesday’s very healthy, low-fat and wholesome corn tortilla recipe turned into fried corn dough…
Read MoreCorn Tortilla Recipe
Making corn tortillas in many ways is easier than homemade flour tortillas. The traditional corn tortilla recipe is only three ingredients: masa harina, salt, and water. Masa harina is a dry flour made from masa, which is a dough made from dried corn that’s been treated with a strong alkalizing compound (usually lime — calcium…
Read MoreFlautas
I surely can’t be the only one to whom chicken flautas are a serious, dedicated food love. Corn tortillas rolled tightly around filling of your choice (chicken here, but beef or potato fillings are common) then fried until crispy golden delicious is achieved?? I mean, COMEON. This video was the second collaboration we did at…
Read MoreMini Burgers on Salad
Last week we went back to Santa Monica to shoot some collaborations with other YouTube cooks at the Tastemade studio. I met one of my new favorites, Ariyele Ressler, a gluten-free cook who’s just started her channel. I fell in love with her personality and recipes at first look and she proved to be just…
Read MoreQueso!
Queso Dip Video (scroll down for queso recipe) If you’re not from Texas, you probably have no idea what the hell queso is. I know, I know, you think you know that it means “cheese” in Spanish and you are correct in that. But to a Texan, queso means something completely different. Sometimes called chili…
Read MoreTurkey Taco Salad
It’s “Healthy Food Resolutions Month” again! Every year like clockwork — and Truck Month and Toyotathon — January shows up and makes us all feel bad about eating s’mores for dinner. Admittedly, January has a good point there. Marshmallows are bad for your teeth. But January’s advice is not good if all the healthy crap…
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