My personal are:
Chiles Rellenos
Asado
Carne Asada
Sopes

back when i wasn't a veggiehead(we are talking around age 5 to 10)

i use to like

Posole
Chicken Mole(not mole as in a face-mark)
Tostadas de ceviche.
Flautas
Garnachas
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you can't really eat REAL mexican food if your a vegetarian.
you get something closely resembling tex-mex food..

weepingwall said:

True. Taco salads don't count!
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I know the best Asado chef in Israel, and I really wish I was ay so I could date him and have Asado every day.

Chilaquiles.

my wife made me some fideo for supper...

what i want to know is who here knows what it even is?

SlamGlam said:

fideo there like these noodles that are made usually with chicken tomato soup.
i use eat alot of that when i would stay at my aunt ranch in mexico.

SlamGlam said:

Fideo
Guest Author - Terri Perkins Fulton

Serves 4 as a side dish

2 tablespoons vegetable oil (olive or corn oil is fine, too)
3/4 cup fideo or vermicelli noodles, broken into 1-inch pieces

2 cloves garlic, chopped
1/2 cup onion, chopped
1/2 of a large tomato, chopped

1 1/2 cups hot chicken broth
1 tablespoon chopped cilantro

Salt to taste, depending on how salty your chicken broth is

Heat the oil in a heavy medium sauce pan and saute the fideo until golden brown. Stir in the garlic, onion and tomato and saute for about 10 seconds. Add the chicken broth and bring to simmer. Add salt to taste and about one tablespoon chopped cilantro

Turn the heat to low and simmer until most of the liquid is absorbed. (Do not cover.) Let the fideo stand off the heat for a few minutes and serve.

I have a middle eastern recipe similar. It calls for frying the thin pasta in butter add rice, then simmer in chicken broth. Yum.

weepingwall said:

YEP! my wife puts less tomato sauce that i would prefer but it still pretty damn good. mix in some re-fried beans and guacamole.... i am STUFFED....but not too stuffed for the pie in the oven!

SlamGlam said:

kool..enjoy.

I don't know where to start! Tortilla soup. I make the best.
Guacamole. Multiple recipes. Salsa! Hotter the better.
Machacca, Smoked beef used umpteen ways.
And tacos.
And home stewed pinto beans with yummy earthy Mexican beans. It really matters with the type of bean and the soil it's grown in.
LAST but not least: MOLE!!!!! It has 20+ ingredients, I like to make chocolate mole and it's a thick rich sauce served with chicken and delicious beyond belief.

xplnyrslf said:

my wife boils chicken with seasoning and with skin until it is cooked but not too tender and then takes it out and keeps the broth...let its it boil down some if it is too thin.... when the chicken cools she strips it and shreds it.. then she used the broth (well okay the chicken grease) to browns the fideo, and ads her seasonings, adds 8oz of tomato sauce and sometimes some diced tomatoes (you can also use rotel) fill the pan almost to the top with water lets it simmer until the water is absorbed....

xplnyrslf said:[


do you use mayo?



hummmm me too... i do not care for off the shelf sausa (vinegar YUCK) but when my wife lets me i make some with habaneros.... but they are so hot it gets in the air and bugs her.

xplnyrslf said:[quote.
LAST but not least: MOLE!!!!! It has 20+ ingredients, I like to make chocolate m.[/quote]

i love mole..especially with chocolate..i think the only i regret since going veggie.

weepingwall said:

i love mole..especially with chocolate..i think the only i regret since going veggie.[/quote]


i have never cared for it. or bunellos either... my wife's grandmother passed away last month... her cooking will be missed. (ecp her tamales)

SlamGlam said:

Never mayo with Mexican food. Unless with fish tacos, it's a recipe we learned fishing in Mexico on the boats. Mayo is mixed with chile sauce and other spices and put on the fish in the taco....
Salsa: I roast all ingredients and put in a blender. Can do chunky and just chop it all or puree it to a thick salsa consistancy. Always cilantro and garlic and lime and tomatoe and chiles, salt, onion
I sent Renegade a package of multiple salsas and bottles of hot sauce along with blue corn chips, regular tortilla chips and dried beef. Remnants of living in Arizona...

xplnyrslf said:[



really? my wife's late grandparents owned a restaurant for 20 years and they always used mayo in the Guacamole

SlamGlam said:

I love fideo, dont know how to make it but I love it

As for fav dishes well the list could go on and on but here are some

Pozole verde with chicken - its so delish
Tamales
Coctel de camaron
Ceviche
Gorditas
Pork with chile verde
Barbacoa
Tostadas
Mole
Menudo - no meat thank you
Carnitas - what we had today
Spanish rice and of course Beans

SlamGlam said:

A friend of mine uses mayo in her guacamole and she says it tastes great I myself have never put any in mine.

combination plate #2

It's all good...I love Menudo, Fideo, Mole...you can tell a lot about a Mexican restaurant by their tortillas.
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Revolution said:

Home made flour tortillas are the best

veronikka said:

I know that's right...My mom stopped making them because we used to eat them right off of the skillet. With butter or avacado and salt...
My brother in law's wife still makes them....she makes a combination flour and corn tortilla...it's actually very good. The restaurant the we like in Mexicantown (here in Detroit) make their own tortillas in the window.

My favourite Mexican dish ?

That would have to be Salma Hayek

Happy 5th May y'all

senik said:

If I was a man that would probably be my pick too

veronikka said:

Penelope Cruz yo! Either that or the girl from Spanglish and Talk to her, I forget her name but she and penelope look similar

karmatornado said:

Paz Vega