Spicy: This is What for Breakfast

Excellent breakfast: scrambled eggs, dry roasted jalapenos and shredded jack cheese added at the end. Soft corn tortillas. Pickled lemon/cabbage/carrot slaw. Windows widely opened into the early summer.

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Beef Ranchero

Very quick and a great flavor. Tiny dice of skirt steak flavored with poblano, dry roasted garlic, fire roasted tomatoes, oregano, and some chipotle, very subtle.

served with charred scallions, sprinkled with salt and lime juice; cabbage/carrot/pickled serranos slaw, panela.

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Duck Pasilla Tacos

Yesterday, sort of mexican Duck a l’Orange: tacos of mock duck confit, pasilla, orange, oregano. Nice but i should have added less sauce – the meat was drown. Mock confit was a good idea though – three duck legs were slowly cooked stove skin down to start the fat rendering process then flipped, unpeeled garlic [...]

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More Carnitas

The carnitas description from Nopalito’s menu sounded sounded lovely: Long braised pork, orange, bay leaf, cinnamon and beer; cabbage salad, pickled jalapeños, tomatillo salsa.
Using Kennedy’s recipe from her red book as a base, the only thing i changed was to skip oranges and milk and use 1 1/2 cups of dark beer – Sam Smith [...]

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Chicken Tinga, via Rick Bayless

Definitely one of my favorites. A pleasure to cook – the aroma of dry roasted (think charred) garlic cloves is intoxicating.
Used white sweet potatoes, for wonderful aroma and flavor.
The original recipe calls for mixing everything together – shredded chicken, sauce and potatoes. I decided to serve potatoes on the side – delicate strands looked too [...]

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Goldwell Open Air Museum

After out visit in 2007 i dreamed to come back. And we made it happen. Haunting place in Death Valley.

It’s sad that Desert Flower was destroyed by a strong wind last year. RIP, the strange flower, you’ll be missed!

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Reunited in Beatty

Two years later we came to Death Valley again, eager to see the green truck among other things – fortunately it was still there. Wish i could take it home with me.
Now:

and then:

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