Category: Mexican / Tex-Mex / Cali-Mex

  • Fastest Way to Shred Beef

    Fastest Way to Shred Beef

    This is the fastest way yet I’ve found to shred beef for enchiladas, tacos and so forth.  I had some leftover pot roast and decided to make beef enchiladas. Usually I would use two forks to pull the beef apart into shreds or I would get lazy and just chop it up. But I do…

  • Chicken Burrito Bowls

    Chicken Burrito Bowls

    I made the chicken burrito bowls again and played around with a different way to dress up the canned black beans for a day when I didn’t have time to caramelize the onions. You just add some dried spices and a minced clove of garlic and voila!  Dressed up black beans.  Of course, if you were…

  • Leftover Flank Steak Turned Into Tacos

    Leftover Flank Steak Turned Into Tacos

    I think it’s a good sign when something was so good I couldn’t wait to make it again!  That’s how it was with the steak tacos I posted about earlier.  I’d mentioned them to my sister who told me she’d made them and loved them. She added a bit of brown sugar to the steak…

  • Steak Tacos with Lime Mayo from Cooking Light

    Steak Tacos with Lime Mayo from Cooking Light

    I’m on a taco roll. The spicy shrimp tacos were so good that I wanted to try the steak tacos with lime mayo. The current issue of Cooking Light is full of tacos! I don’t know if I’ll make my way through all ten recipes but these first two are definitely repeats. Tacos work well…

  • Spicy Shrimp Tacos

    Spicy Shrimp Tacos

    These came from the latest issue of Cooking Light, one of the few magazines I subscribe to off and on.  The latest issue has a bunch of taco recipes and this one caught my eye tonight.  Yowza!  Really good. I made an avocado salsa rather than just using smashed avocado and diced tomatoes. I also used…