Carne con chorizo tacos with homemade frijoles refritos

Staredge · Post by **Staredge** » May 24, 2008 1:55 pm

1 lb minute steaks (breakfast steaks, NOT steak-ums)
8 oz mexican chorizo

tomatoes
white onion
fresh cilantro
jalapeno or serrano peppers
fresh lime juice

corn tortillas
bottled taco sauce
mexican queso fresco

Chop tomatoes, onion, and peppers to fine dice. Eyeball ingredient amounts to make the mix you like for pico de gallo. Alternately, you COULD buy premade. Wuss. Remove seeds from peppers if you don't like it too spicy. Chop cilantro fine and add along with juice from a couple of limes (key lime, if you can find it fresh) Let sit for a day or so to merge flavors.

Remove casings from chorizo and fry, breaking apart. Remove to a bowl lined with paper towel to drain and wipe pan clean.

Season the steak well with salt & pepper, slice into thin strips and stir fry until done to taste. Add chorizo at end of cooking and mix together.

Take store bought corn tortillas and toast on dry pan until warmed and toasted (duh). Add spoonful of meat micture and top with pico de gallo, taco sauce (I use Cholula), and queso fresco. Eat with a good mexican beer (ok, if you insist you can drink Corona, but it won't taste as good) and a dollop of beans on the side

BEANS

1 can pinto or black beans
lard or bacon grease
garlic

Take a spoonful of grease or lard & fry up some garlic to taste. Take a can of beans & add to the pan, with liquid. Bring to boil and use a potato ricer/masher to mash beans. Turn heat down to medium hot & cook down until it reduces to the consistency you like.

Good mexican food, and WAY more authentic than anything Old El Paso puts out.

RinglingRingling · Post by **RinglingRingling** » May 24, 2008 2:42 pm

shoot.. my problem is that the chorizo never makes it to the taco..

Joetown Parrothead · Post by **Joetown Parrothead** » May 24, 2008 4:38 pm

Sounds Good!

flipflopgirl · Post by **flipflopgirl** » May 24, 2008 4:40 pm

Joetown Parrothead wrote:Sounds Good!

i saw this a few minutes ago and was wondering if YOU had seen it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Does sound YUMMY!!!!!!!!!!!!

Staredge · Post by **Staredge** » May 24, 2008 5:30 pm

They are really good, fairly easy to throw together, and really messy!!!!! (really good food is supposed to be really messy)

ragtopW · Post by **ragtopW** » May 24, 2008 9:45 pm

RinglingRingling wrote:shoot.. my problem is that the chorizo never makes it to the taco..

never knew....

do you Prefer the Basque?? (kinda dry in a skin like a Salame)
or the Mexican????

Staredge · Post by **Staredge** » May 24, 2008 10:00 pm

Never had a problem with my chorizo........never mind.

I've never had the Spanish style. Mexican chorizo is comfort food for me. Grew up in Arizona, so I ate a lot of it out there. Still not sick of it.

ragtopW · Post by **ragtopW** » May 27, 2008 11:39 pm

Staredge wrote:Never had a problem with my chorizo........never mind.

I've never had the Spanish style. Mexican chorizo is comfort food for me. Grew up in Arizona, so I ate a lot of it out there. Still not sick of it.

I was raised in Northern California..
but In Idaho we have a choice..
I like both..

flipflopgirl · Post by **flipflopgirl** » May 27, 2008 11:43 pm

still have to try making these!!!!!!!!!!!

Staredge · Post by **Staredge** » May 28, 2008 10:33 am

flipflopgirl wrote:still have to try making these!!!!!!!!!!!

Well WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?