Category: Mexican / Tex-Mex / Cali-Mex

  • Chicken Enchiladas Verde for 4

    Chicken Enchiladas Verde for 4

    Because I’m close to being a Pam Anderson groupie, I bought Perfect One-Dish Dinners: All You Need for Easy Get-Togethers, sight unseen. Didn’t even ask my library to get a copy first!  Her books have never disappointed me and only once can I remember making a recipe that wasn’t superb. (And it was superb later…

  • Fish Tacos and Rice with Lime and Cilantro from The Food Nanny

    Fish Tacos and Rice with Lime and Cilantro from The Food Nanny

    Tonight was another dinner taken from The Food Nanny Rescues Dinner: Easy Family Meals for Every Day of the Week. fish tacos with tilapia and homemade corn tortillas rice with cilantro, cumin and lime juice black beans (from a can, just heated) Homemade Corn Tortillas I used to make tortillas back when the kids were…

  • Gringo’s Huevos Rancheros from the Pantry

    Gringo’s Huevos Rancheros from the Pantry

    The other night I stopped by a neighbor’s house for some wine and bread and cheese with some neighbors.  It was 7:30 by the time I got home and I still wanted some dinner, but didn’t really want to spend a ton of time cooking something. Yet I wanted something warm and something more than…

  • Chicken Tortilla Soup Recipe

    Chicken Tortilla Soup Recipe

    I had some great homemade chicken broth, all jellied up and good, and poached chicken and I had a craving for some chicken tortilla soup. When I say chicken tortilla soup, it has to include lime juice and avocados (and chicken of course!). Much else is negotiable. I started here with a recipe for Chicken…

  • Sour Cream Chicken Enchiladas

    Sour Cream Chicken Enchiladas

    I’ve always loved chicken enchiladas with a green sauce at Mexican restaurants and was hoping this would be a good substitute! I found them lacking something, although my children enjoyed them. I think it was onions I was missing. But if I’d added them that might have meant the children did not like them, as they’re…