Something Delicious

[ruffryder]

Some of the best food I've had was homemade and came from my grandmother. She was from New Mexico so I got the fresh tortillas, tamales, fresh salsas, and your typical tex mex food using New Mexico fresh chiles. I remember my grandfather cooking on what is called a "disco". It is an outdoor cooking disk, fired up with charcoal or a propane tank. It resembles a giant wok. He would cook up steak with onions, tomatoes and that NM chili and we would eat it hot on warmed up corn tortillas.





I've been to North End in Boston and ate cannolis.. mmmmm!

Some of the best bbq I've ever had came from KC Missouri.

The best pizza I've enjoyed has been made on wood fire and I had some in WA. It had feta cheese on it. yum! Some other good pizza recently was in St Augustine Florida at a Meat Market called Caramelos. They used fresh deli meats and cheeses and the slices are huge! Delish!

As for comfort food and my fav, it has to be Mexican! I'm always looking for a good mexican restaurant and trying to perfect my red chile enchiladas. I am a taco freak also and love anything from crunchy hard shell to traditional ones made of tripe, steak, marinated pork, and even found I love fish tacos. I also enjoy making and eating these lil things I call fresh Jalapeno poppers. includes Fresh jalapenos stuffed with cream cheese and wrapped in bacon. I love bacon!!




My fav meal to cook, if I have to choose is breakfast, and it can include any kind of huge spread. I like to think this is my best meal to cook and enjoy with others! Traditionally it's Eggs (omelette, scrambled with cheese, or over easy) hash browns or diced potatoes with onions, tomatoes, jalapeno, bacon cooked just right, chorizo (which is a mexican sausage, mild or spicy) I taught one of my gfs to cook bacon. She was ecstatic. It's all in not turning up the heat so high. Many people fall in love with my chorizo and egg or potatoes in tortillas.

[Sun]

Originally Posted by ruffryder

Some of the best food I've had was homemade and came from my grandmother. She was from New Mexico so I got the fresh tortillas, tamales, fresh salsas, and your typical tex mex food using New Mexico fresh chiles. I remember my grandfather cooking on what is called a "disco". It is an outdoor cooking disk, fired up with charcoal or a propane tank. It resembles a giant wok. He would cook up steak with onions, tomatoes and that NM chili and we would eat it hot on warmed up corn tortillas.





I've been to North End in Boston and ate cannolis.. mmmmm!

Some of the best bbq I've ever had came from KC Missouri.

The best pizza I've enjoyed has been made on wood fire and I had some in WA. It had feta cheese on it. yum! Some other good pizza recently was in St Augustine Florida at a Meat Market called Caramelos. They used fresh deli meats and cheeses and the slices are huge! Delish!

As for comfort food and my fav, it has to be Mexican! I'm always looking for a good mexican restaurant and trying to perfect my red chile enchiladas. I am a taco freak also and love anything from crunchy hard shell to traditional ones made of tripe, steak, marinated pork, and even found I love fish tacos. I also enjoy making and eating these lil things I call fresh Jalapeno poppers. includes Fresh jalapenos stuffed with cream cheese and wrapped in bacon. I love bacon!!




My fav meal to cook, if I have to choose is breakfast, and it can include any kind of huge spread. I like to think this is my best meal to cook and enjoy with others! Traditionally it's Eggs (omelette, scrambled with cheese, or over easy) hash browns or diced potatoes with onions, tomatoes, jalapeno, bacon cooked just right, chorizo (which is a mexican sausage, mild or spicy) I taught one of my gfs to cook bacon. She was ecstatic. It's all in not turning up the heat so high. Many people fall in love with my chorizo and egg or potatoes in tortillas.

ruffryder! Welcome! You are killing me with this post!

Anyone who knows me in r/t or on Facebook knows that I too am in love with Mexican food. How cool for you that you were able to experience so much good food from New Mexican roots. I was blown away by the food in New Mexico. Especially in Santa Fe. Wow, what a great melding of cultures. My favorite Chili is the Hatch Green medium mild variety because it is packed with flavor and once roasted, seeded and pealed I can use it in a variety of different ways.

Ok now I am hungry.

The fresh poppers are a great idea! We could probably have a thread just for Mexican food and another just for bacon. LOL

Right now I am in AZ and have sampled the taco's that you mention. Cant get real fish taco's anywhere but the border states and NM as far as I can see though Denver does some pretty good food as well.

My favorite Chef, Silvana Salcido of Barrio Cafe' in Phoenix was just interviewed by Eaquire magazine and she was quoted as saying "Its time for the Taco to take over America".

I could not agree more.

[easygoingfemme]

Mmmmm I lived in Albuquerque for a couple of years. Chili roasting season... those fresh tortillas...

[Sun]

Originally Posted by easygoingfemme

Mmmmm I lived in Albuquerque for a couple of years. Chili roasting season... those fresh tortillas...

Hatch just had chili season and I missed it this year.

Nothing like those big baskets of chilis being roasted over fire. The gas units are not the same, but a good fire...wow.

[Sun]

Adding..I have seen that disk around AZ before and never knew what it was called. The ones that I come across are big and silver, maybe stainless steel or aluminum not sure.

ruffryder- that disk in your pic looks like cast iron. Is it?

The whole portable deal with the propane tank would come in very handy for outdoor parties.

[Canela]

Originally Posted by ruffryder

Some of the best food I've had was homemade and came from my grandmother. She was from New Mexico so I got the fresh tortillas, tamales, fresh salsas, and your typical tex mex food using New Mexico fresh chiles. I remember my grandfather cooking on what is called a "disco". It is an outdoor cooking disk, fired up with charcoal or a propane tank. It resembles a giant wok. He would cook up steak with onions, tomatoes and that NM chili and we would eat it hot on warmed up corn tortillas.





I've been to North End in Boston and ate cannolis.. mmmmm!

Some of the best bbq I've ever had came from KC Missouri.

The best pizza I've enjoyed has been made on wood fire and I had some in WA. It had feta cheese on it. yum! Some other good pizza recently was in St Augustine Florida at a Meat Market called Caramelos. They used fresh deli meats and cheeses and the slices are huge! Delish!

As for comfort food and my fav, it has to be Mexican! I'm always looking for a good mexican restaurant and trying to perfect my red chile enchiladas. I am a taco freak also and love anything from crunchy hard shell to traditional ones made of tripe, steak, marinated pork, and even found I love fish tacos. I also enjoy making and eating these lil things I call fresh Jalapeno poppers. includes Fresh jalapenos stuffed with cream cheese and wrapped in bacon. I love bacon!!




My fav meal to cook, if I have to choose is breakfast, and it can include any kind of huge spread. I like to think this is my best meal to cook and enjoy with others! Traditionally it's Eggs (omelette, scrambled with cheese, or over easy) hash browns or diced potatoes with onions, tomatoes, jalapeno, bacon cooked just right, chorizo (which is a mexican sausage, mild or spicy) I taught one of my gfs to cook bacon. She was ecstatic. It's all in not turning up the heat so high. Many people fall in love with my chorizo and egg or potatoes in tortillas.

Hi 5 to you buddy!

My grandmother (Guelita) was a very good cook. When it rained and we had to stay in was the only time she turned on the oven and baked out here. She'd make raisin oatmeal cookies. On cold mornings, she'd make atole, oatmeal with raisins and cinnamon stick chunks in it. OMG, I still love finding restaurants out here who make that...I made it for my children when they were small, but now not so much.

Tamales was a production with several women all coming together to "embarrar" (spread) the softened corn husks and catch up (gossip) then later make chocolate de la Abuelita to have with the tamales when they were ready. I learned very early to be quiet and they'd let me participate. I miss those times. I tried to get my girls involved in that, but they just didn't get it...it's alot of work, maybe that's it? LOL--of course, that's it!

The disco, my uncles used to fry fish! They were pretty good fishermen, so every weekend was a fish fry. I learned to eat huachinango (red snapper) fried, head and all in that type of disc...they'd slice it in the middle after it was all crispy and pull out the bones, then open it, squeeze lime all over it and pull the meat out and throw it in a corn tortilla with some avocado...original fish tacos! That, with a cold Tecate--ay Dios!

The other thing they made regularly in that disco was the tripas...ugh...those were gross...lol

Jalapeno poppers! You are so right! They are fantastic! A friend of mine out here makes his with fish in the cream cheese or shrimp. They are delicious! He is an incredible cook, by the way...

In Chicago, they make a cannoli cake that is amazing! I didn't even know they could do that, but the filling for cannoli is used as filling in a white cake...then strawberry glaze is piped into the cake itself, like with Tres Leches cake...it is amazing...I'd much rather have that than the cannoli dessert itself. But then again they also make Italian cakes that have the same effect as cotton candy--they melt on your tongue! As far as Italian food goes, a very sweet Italian granny taught me to make meat sauce with neck bones. Apparently, this is Sicilian? I thought it was kind of unusual but boy is it delicious!

In South Texas, fajitas are a staple. They are made to order any way you like but grilled is my favorite. With a fresh pico de gallo, as I'm not into alot of different hot sauces and until recently started using Lousiana hot sauce...that took a little getting used to. I was raised on chile piquin in a molcajete with fresh tomatoe and salt. That was the best and only chile I ate until I left South Texas and I must have been about 20 some years old...It is still the best dang salsa I have ever tried. And you can out it on anything and it's perfect!






My favorite mexican food has to be the chicken enchilada casserole I learned to make many years ago. Instead of rolling tortillas you layer them like lasagna and yes, that is so easy and so delicious and less mess....I like paella, too...but then I'm partial to rice and rice dishes. I make an effort to avoid them and now make steamed tilapia al mojo de ajo--tilapia with garlic or baked lemon pepper chicken instead of fried or guisado...unfortunately, my regional cuisine is at the root of THE largest population in the United States with diabetes. So healthy eating is important. But I will indulge occasionally in that chicken enchilada casserole or other dishes just because they ARE my comfort food.

I like Chinese food but usually opt for the grill at the restaurants to make something fresh and with no real sauce but flavor and lots of lime. I love lime on everything! lol...otherwise, dishes with nuts of any kind are the norm for me.

Gee, I am writing about all these foods and I'm not even hungry...lol...had dinner with my family and the girls cooked and I got to make dessert. Strawberry shortcake. These days I try to take shortcuts when cooking if possible so that it doesn't take so much prep or cook time and clean up is also a factor. I'm trying really hard to learn to cook smaller portions and healthier but it's coming along a little slower than I'd like.

I'm glad this thread is here. I'm learning just by reading everyone's posts! Thanks everyone!

[Sun]

Good Morning!

So glad to wake up in a nation that has restored some sanity to our political process!

Ok I am sipping a huge cup of Espresso roast coffee and trying to recover from only getting 3 hours of sleep. Good coffee is something that I love and take very seriously.

I just want to thank you all for your stories and willingness to share them with us. This is the kind of thing that I love to read and learn from. This thread is only 2 days old and is already so rich in fabulous information and inspiration. So thank you!

How very cool for me that my love of Mexican and southwestern food is being indulged by you fabulous people as well. Surely many will enjoy reading these posts.

As my brain is waking up I can not help but be so happy for those couples in the states of Maine, Maryland and Washington DC, who can now marry legally. I am so glad that Minnesota defeated an anti marriage equality initiative that would change the constitution. I let all of my friends know that I expect to see wedding invitations arriving soon! After all that work there better be some great celebrations!

Canela I find it charming that tacos and cannoli can wind up in the same conversation. Love that. I also put lime on everything. Well, almost everything.

When I was a kid my Italian Nana would have me help her mix the cannoli filling then fill a pastry bag and pipe it into the cannoli shells. What I created was quite a mess but she was so charming and kind about it. Very patient with me and never seemed to mind. The filling is very simple but requires good riccota cheese that has to be beaten into a lighter consistency which occurs as air is incorporated. Sugar, vanilla, a little milk. Some add cinnamon. My family liked chocolate chips in the filling, me not so much. The shells can be made by hand but a lot of people just buy them from a bakery. Very rarely have I come across a sweet that so many people love so much. A platter of cannoli brought to the table at my Grandparents home always created such excitement. Sweet memory. Literally.

As much as I love to cook I am not enjoying cooking alone or just for myself. I had become used to cooking for my little family. That made the separation that much harder on my spirit. How I loved making dinner at home and having that time together to talk, check in about the day. Discuss homework or whatever went on at work for us. Sitting down to a meal together is so important to me. It is probably the most essential part of my day. Or was. This bachelor life is not so much fun. And my ex was a great cook. What a blessing.

So onward and into the future. I am eating a lot of raw vegetables these days and making a lot of simple soups. Rice and beans are a staple for me. As is fish. I'm always looking for new ways to grill and bake things. Marinating is a favorite technique to add flavor and its so easy to do.

Ok back to coffee and email.

I am so grateful for you all and for this thread that is turning out to be so much fun!

Good morning foodies!

[Sun]

Paula Deen posted on Facebook that she is taping "Best Dishes" all week and would like to know what yall would like to have her make. I love that word yall. Love "all yall" even more. I love the south. Minus the racism.

So what do you all want Paula to make?

You know how she loves her some butter and bacon! lol

[Sun]

Here is a link to the Barrio Cafe, Phoenix menu that I like so much. You have to download the file to read it. Not a great web page, sorry.

Has anyone is this thread made Salsa Verde? I am wondering what you can add to the mix if using Tomatilios and jalepeno as the base. Thinking garlic, lime, cilantro. Any ideas?

[Daywalker]

Originally Posted by Sun

Paula Deen posted on Facebook that she is taping "Best Dishes" all week and would like to know what yall would like to have her make. I love that word yall. Love "all yall" even more. I love the south. Minus the racism.

So what do you all want Paula to make?

You know how she loves her some butter and bacon! lol

Something riddled with Linguica!

[Sun]

Ok Day I am going to send a note to Ms Paula Deen and tell her you want her to go wild with the linguica!

How about Portugese Kale Soup have you had that?

[girl_dee]

i love Linguica! it's very similar to our Andouille sausage.

i bought some Chorizo today!