SIMPLE huevos rancheros
A very simple way to make "huevos rancheros" (ranch eggs) as they are known in Mexico and offered for breakfast. The simple ingredients are corn tortillas and eggs, the "salsa" can be bought in the...
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Frijols from the campo of Juanito and elotes from the campo of Hector.
Shuck, dry, soak in cal, rinse, dry, grind on a mano y metate, pat by hand then cook the cakes over a lumbre de guixache wood on a comal de barro, while frijoles de la olla are cooking alongside in a olla de barro will satisfy me three times a week -- just as it has for fifty years when I can find the food.
Tortillas de la tortillaria are wonderbread twinkie gag-o-rama. The inequality of mano y metate grinding, the patting by hand that leaves one end of the disc thinner than the other, and wood smoke affects the flavor of the tortilla.
Genuine frijoles de la olla cooked unevenly where some of the beans are cooked dry and crusty and then vary all the way to runny but thoroughly cooked is unparalleled. Again wood smoke blends into the food.
Machine made. Yeah it's like comparing TANG to fresh squeezed orange juice, a loaf of farmhouse fresh from the oven bread to Wonder/Bimbo.
What has degraded Mexican food is disgusting. My daughter and oldest granddaughter agree that if pester them too much about this I may end up with a plastic bag over my head. La femme de Mexico are violently militant about not returning to a back breaking chore.
Shuck, dry, soak in cal, rinse, dry, grind on a mano y metate, pat by hand then cook the cakes over a lumbre de guixache wood on a comal de barro, while frijoles de la olla are cooking alongside in a olla de barro will satisfy me three times a week -- just as it has for fifty years when I can find the food.
Tortillas de la tortillaria are wonderbread twinkie gag-o-rama. The inequality of mano y metate grinding, the patting by hand that leaves one end of the disc thinner than the other, and wood smoke affects the flavor of the tortilla.
Genuine frijoles de la olla cooked unevenly where some of the beans are cooked dry and crusty and then vary all the way to runny but thoroughly cooked is unparalleled. Again wood smoke blends into the food.
Machine made. Yeah it's like comparing TANG to fresh squeezed orange juice, a loaf of farmhouse fresh from the oven bread to Wonder/Bimbo.
What has degraded Mexican food is disgusting. My daughter and oldest granddaughter agree that if pester them too much about this I may end up with a plastic bag over my head. La femme de Mexico are violently militant about not returning to a back breaking chore.
