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read more Enchiladas Around the World »   Today is the release date for my newest cookbook, The Tex-Mex Grill and Backyard Barbacoa Cookbook. Here’s a new recipe video in honor of the [...]  At left, Mariano Martinez visits the world’s first margarita machine which he donated to the Smithsonian Institute. For the full story, read the account by Rayna Green, a curator in the Division of Home and Community Life at the National Museum of American History. Its in her blog for Cinco de Mayo. Here’s an excerpt: “I am [...] 
I was talking to Lori Moffat at Texas Highways Magazine about Houston’s wacky ethnic fusion dishes yesterday. I thought of Kaiser, the lovable head chef at Himalaya on Hillcroft. Kaiser served me a plate of his wildly spicy Pakistani fajitas the other day. Kaiser calls the dish “steak tikka” on the menu and serves it with [...] 
The Bandito plate at the new El Toro location on Kirkwood and Westheimer features a fajita enchilda in salsa, a cheese enchilada and a ground beef enchilada in chili gravy, and a chicken enchilada in sour cream. The enchiladas were good, but the made-to-order corn tortillas that came on the side were outrageous. We drove to [...] Praise for my new book The Tex-Mex Grill and Backyard Barbacoa Cookbook from the Cowboys & Indians C & I blog: Regardless, next time I’ll be prepared having just read Robb Walsh’s The Tex-Mex Grill and Backyard Barbacoa Cookbook, which recommends five mariachi songs to request when you need a quick diversion. My next getaway song? [...] 
Chile relleno was the Wednesday special at Mi Abuelitas Homestyle Mexican Restaurant on 45th and Avenue O 1/2 in Galveston. It was served with beans and fideo for $7. Owner Sara Asocar worked as a waitress at El Nopalito, one of Galveston’s most popular Tex-Mex restaurants, for 17 years before Ike took that restaurant out. [...]  Fruit stand at the Airline Flea Market in Houton The “Flea Markets” on Airline Drive in North Houston form a giant mercado that draws some 50,000 Latino shoppers every weekend. Each flea market has its own taquerias and food stands.  Agua Fresca de Tamarindo De Buey Y Vaca is the most famous taqueria. (Buey y vaca means ox and cow, or steer and cow.) My favorite dish there was the barbacoa soup. Barbacoa soup belongs in the family of menudo, posole, and caldo de res. It’s a weekend breakfast soup eaten with a squeeze of lime, chopped onions and cilantro and a stack of tortillas. If you like barbacoa, this stuff will knock your socks off. read more Houston’s Airline Flea Market/Mercado »  
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Most people make masa from powdered instant mix these days. Real nixtamal is getting pretty rare–but if you find it, buy it. It makes the [...] |
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