Mexican Rice

I’ve been delinquent in talking about the Mexican feast Haley and I made for friends who were in town for a wedding.  We had a taco party with carnitas and chicken, and rice and black beans, plus lots of toppings.  And it was delicious.  I’m going to share the black bean and rice recipes with [...]

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Chipotle Chicken Quesadillas

I’m sure everyone has that go-to meal that when you have no idea what to make for dinner, you can always fall
back on this dish.  For some people that means a meal that can be made from ingredients you always have on hand (for me the only thing I could make at any given time [...]

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Grande Chicken Burritos

On Saturday night, Greg and I decided to eat in and I was going to make our old stand-by, quesadillas.  I wanted to make them a little
more special by making a chipotle chicken recipe for them,  but failed to find what I needed at the grocery store.  So I changed course and grabbed a copy [...]

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Chickpea, Chorizo and Chicken Stew

I had a link of frozen chorizo hanging around in my freezer and had been looking for recipes for a while that would inspire me to use it.
For some reason, this one caught my eye…maybe because it’s pretty South Beach and uses lots of protein and vegetables.  And maybe because all the vegetables kind of [...]

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Mexican Chopped Salad with Honey Lime Dressing

I’ll go ahead and get it out of the way- there’s going to be a dry spell around here for the next 2 weeks.  I’m going out of town for work
and have been working some late hours, so there hasn’t been too much notable cooking going on.  However, I do have this one good recipe [...]

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Willy’s Style Burrito Salad

Many of the salads I have on this site are adaptations of ones I like in restaurants- like the Raging Burrito Thai Peanut Salad and the La Fonda Tilapia salad.  Now, I decided to knock off the Willy’s Mexicana Grill salad.  It’s kind of like a burrito in a salad, with warm black beans and [...]

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Creamy Corn and Poblano Saute

We spent this weekend up in Virginia visiting Justine and Chris.  It seems this beautiful mountain town doesn’t have good Mexican food, and has what Chris described as “margaritas the color of 5000 Flushes.”  Naturally, we made a Mexican feast that night at their house to combat that.  The menu was shrimp and steak tacos [...]

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Vegetable (and optional Chicken) Enchiladas

You know when you ignore your cooking instincts and realize you shouldn’t have as soon as you try the dish?  A voice in my head said, “Sarah, sautee the vegetables, you know they won’t cook in 35 minutes and the dish will be watery!”  But I trusted the recipe and didn’t want to get another [...]

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Quick Black Beans

I make these beans all the time to accompany enchiladas, fish tacos and burritos.  They have a lot of flavor considering they’re canned beans.
Ingredients:
1 T vegetable or canola oil
2 cloves garlic, minced
2 14 oz cans black beans (with liquid)
1 t ground cumin
1/2 t ground chipotle pepper, or 1/4 t red pepper flakes
1 t dried oregano
Salt, [...]

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Grilled Tuna with Black Bean Chili, Avocado Puree and Tortilla Strips

Yes, it’s another Emeril Lagasse recipe if you can believe it.  This is a great one for entertaining- it’s elegant and very tasty.  If you made the Jambalaya Pasta I posted, this is a great way to use up some of the Emeril’s Essence (or you can just use any Cajun seasoning).  I also think [...]

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