Trout Tacos with Braised Chard

Excellent tacos tonight, from unassuming ingredients really. Trout fillets pan roasted on high heat to crisp the skin.
Niman Ranch bacon cut into strips and browned. Red onion sliced and added, then garlic, fire roasted tomatoes and chile chipotle, then 1/4″ sliced chard stems, and finally leaves. Perfect side, quite rich in a good way. Fire [...]

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Albondigas en Salsa Verde, with Some Vegetables

Nice recipe for meatballs in tomatillo (with some chipotle) sauce. Couple problems – the color of cooked sauce – on the pic it was pretty and clear. In reality it came out grayish, apparently from the juice leaking from meat. Possible remedy? Cook meatballs in stock and add the sauce at the end. Or even [...]

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Chicken Wings with Mexican Type Fixins

Wings marinated with chipotle, oregano, garlic, olive oil and some miso (oy). Roasted with sesame seeds.
Tomatillo/avocado salsa – broiled tomatillos/jalapeno, white onion whizzed with cilantro and avocado.
Kohlrabi slaw with crema.

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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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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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Shrimps in Pumpkin Seed Sauce

Kennedy’s blue book. Used creme fraiche. In my previous version in roasted shells and heads for the stock – bad idea in this case, the sauce should be delicate.
Served with jicama/carrots/tomato/arugula salad with marjoram pesto. Not sure what went wrong but marjoram flavor was non existent, though it’s a pretty strong herb.

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