Something Delicious

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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.

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

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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.

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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.