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Sweet potato tacos with marinated peppers and cabbage, three of them, nestled together on a plate, garnished with white shredded cheese and bright orange hot sauce.

Sweet potato tacos with marinated peppers and cabbage

April 21, 2017by Mike Bierschenk 2 Comments

Not any one taco style, these are a mashup of some of my favorite things: warm corn tortillas, lightly marinated cabbage, sweet juicy peppers, warm velvety sweet potatoes.

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Close-up on a bowl of quick and lazy pozole, deep brick-red broth studded with brown chorizo, bright red tomatoes, yellow-green chiles, and pale yellow hominy. A small pile of cheese sits near a dollop of sour cream near the upper edge of the bowl.

Quick and lazy posole

February 10, 2017by Mike Bierschenk 1 Comment

Pozole is one of the classics of Mexican cookery, a rich and hearty hominy stew. It’s also a time commitment, so this weeknight version uses fresh, spicy chorizo to shortcut both time and spicing.

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Main Dishes, Soups
A plate of migas, crumbled tortilla chips softened by scrambling in eggs, with a stainless steel fork buried in them. Dashes of bright red hot sauce dot the dish, and a mug of coffee stands at the ready plateside.

Cauliflower migas

December 1, 2016by Mike Bierschenk 1 Comment

Migas are a great way to use up old corn tortillas, or for that matter old corn chips. This version used sauteed cauliflower for a quick, satisfying vegetarian breakfast.

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Breakfast, Main Dishes, Veg*n or veg*n-possible
Closeup on masa harina biscuits with spicy chorizo topping. Two halves of a biscuit are each covered in a generous scoop of chorizo topping that spills over onto the plate; the left half is topped with a fried egg, and the right with sour cream and guacamole; crumbled cotija cheese is sprinkled over the whole plate.

Masa harina biscuits with spicy chorizo topping

April 8, 2016by Mike Bierschenk 6 Comments

Sweet, flaky biscuits with the flavor of corn tortillas. Salty, spicy chorizo. It’s a breakfast worth getting up for, even for a night owl like me.

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Breakfast, Main Dishes
A serving of Sweet potato-black bean enchiladas sits on a small plate, with one bite already taken and a fork lying where the bite had been.

Sweet potato-black bean enchiladas

October 22, 2015by Mike Bierschenk 1 Comment

Little cubes of sweet potato jostle with black beans and diced poblano pepper in rolled corn tortillas with a gentle drape of cheeses and a velvety brick-red sauce. Yowza.

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King Ranch chicken, a little gussied up

April 29, 2015by Mike Bierschenk 8 Comments

King Ranch casserole is a Texas classic, creamy and chickeny and just barely spicy. My version keeps all the things that make it great, while also brightening it up a bit for modern tastes.

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Pumpkin-turkey tacos on a plate with bottles of hot sauce in the background

Pumpkin-turkey tacos

November 23, 2014by Mike Bierschenk 1 Comment

One of the reasons I started this blog was to track my own cooking. I have trouble keeping track of the things I cook, because my cooking is a mix […]

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