There are Mexican restaurants here, I like the Mexican foods my husband brought me to eat.
However I had 2 Mexican girls in my class, one of them told me that she had trouble finding the ingredients she needed to make her country's food, more over she said "...And that the Mexican foods here is nothing like the real thing."
No.
IDK...do they got good French food in Mexico?
Different styles and different ingredients depending on where the early (and majority) of the immigrants are from.
Tex, Colorado, & New Mex areas are pretty similar. Green anaheim chiles, smothered burritos and the stew that we call green chili are very important. Refried pinto beans, "spanish" rice.
California is Mission style - fish tacos, rice and beans included in a handheld burrito, whole black beans.
In the Pacific North West (where I am now), "green chili" is a thinner, tomatillo based sauce, food is milder, more Americanized, *except* in the ever increasing number of "taco trucks" in parking lots. Real, honest, authentic Mexican tacos! Soft corn tortillas, cotija cheese, radishes and limes on the side. Yeehaa!
I would think TeX Mex, would be dishes that are American but using Mexican spices , or herbs to give it the Ethnic flavor, it may not be different at all, I lived in both Texas and Colorado, did not find much of a difference between each. It s just different from Mexican food, based on where the dishes originated from. That would be the difference.
Really as you said it is all prepared a different way, in different places. The color smell taste texture could be different it all depends on who makes it.
Tex-Mex refers to food from Mexico with a Texas flair.
Most of the cooks in Texas (esp. S. Texas are from Mexico).
I think we have the best Mexican food there is. I even don't eat Mexican Food if it is prepared North of Austin Texas.
I don't like the so-called Mexican food in California either.
Here's smethng you needn't look for place to buy Mexican foodies..
MEXICAN CHICKEN
Ingredients
* 1/4 cup corn oil
* 1/4 cup melted butter
* 1/4 cup white onion minced
* 2 tablespoons garlic finely minced
* 3 drops yellow food coloring
* 1/4 teaspoon ground cumin
* 1 teaspoon dried oregano
* 4 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
* 4 tablespoons fresh orange juice
* 3 pound chicken halved
Directions
1. Combine oil, butter, onion, garlic, food coloring, cumin, lemon and orange juices in a large shallow pan then add chicken halves and turn to coat well.
2. Cover and marinate several hours.
3. Remove chicken from marinade then cook over medium coals on grill or in a broiler 4 inches under source of heat for 25 minutes.
4. Cut chicken halves into pieces and serve.
Cream Corn Chicken Enchiladas
These enchiladas have a creamy richness that is hard to resist. They also have a nice tang from the tomatillo-based green sauce. Scrumptious and fast, the cream spinach and cream-style corn tucked inside make them even more luscious
Ingredients for Filling:
One small onion chopped (optional)
2 cups boiled shredded chicken
1 4oz. Can diced green chiles (mild)
2 teaspoons chili powder
1 can cream style corn
½ small tub of sour cream
1 cup shredded monterey jack cheese
½ teaspoon salt
About 18 or so corn tortillas
Sauce:
1 small can of salsa verde (not chunky)
½ small tub of sour cream
Shredded monterey jack cheese
½ cup finely chopped cilantro leaves
Instructions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees
Put down foil in a 9 by 13 inch pan.
Spray the foil with non stick cooking spray
Put small amount of vegetable cooking oil in pan
Saute onions until clear about four minutes
Add boiled chicken,,chili powder and chilis
Warm on low for about two minutes
Remove from heat and add corn, sour cream,cheese and salt
Place a stack of six tortillas at a time between two damp paper towels
Microwave them for about twenty seconds or until warm
Then fill each tortilla with filling and out in pan seam side down
Repeat until pan is full.
Cover with foil
Then bake about 30 minutes
Meanwhile make the sauce
Mix together the verdes sauce, cheese and cilantro,remaining sour cream
Pour over the enchiladas and bake about 10 more minutes
then make velveeta queso with rotel and serve with totilla chips. Yummy!
Try this great recipe for smothered burritos. It's YUMMY!
http://www.ehow.com/how_2318923_delicious-smothered-burritos.html
Since you are only 13 here are a few simple things you can make as far as mexican food:
Chicken Quesadillas
Flour Tortilla Shells
Chicken Breasts Cut up in Small Pieces
Packaged Mexican Cheese
Cook the chicken breasts in a pan sprayed with Pam or any cooking spray until it is done, you can add seasoning to the chicken such as salt and pepper, a little garlic, grilling the chicken is also good if you can
place the chicken pieces on a flour tortilla and cover with mexican cheese put another tortilla on top of this and microwave until cheese melts about 50 seconds to a minute.
Tacos
Taco Shells
Salsa
Hamburger
Can of Refried Beans
Taco Seasoning
Tomatoes
Sour Cream
Lettuce
Cheddar Cheese or Mexican Cheese
Onions If you like them
Brown hamburger in a frying pan, drain grease when hamburger is browned and done, add refried beans, and taco seasoning with a little water, mix well until heated through. Toast taco shells in the oven for a few minutes or you can put them in the microwave for about 50 seconds to heat, fill shells with hamburger/bean mixture, put on tomatoes, lettuce, onions if you like them, salsa, cream cheese and cheese. Tacos
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This recipe for Enchiladas is so simple you can invite your kids to join in. You can use beef or just cheese depending on your mood. The sauce can be a bit messy, so wear an apron!
INGREDIENTS:
12 corn tortillas
1 28oz can of red enchilada sauce
2 cups (16 oz) mozzarella or queso blanco
1 1/2 cups meat (optional) shredded beef or chicken
2-3 tablespoons oil
PREPARATION:
Coat each tortilla with oil using your hands or a brush. Spread out on a cookie sheet or baking dish and bake in a 500 degree oven for about 7 minutes. Take out to cool until they are warm to the touch.
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The cheese can be shredded, or just cut into slices 3-4 inches long, and 1/4 inch thick. (Or thicker if you like them really cheesy.)
Pour just enough sauce in the bottom of a 9x13 glass baking dish to cover the it. Pour the rest of the sauce in a large bowl. Dip tortillas, one at a time, in the bowl to coat with sauce.
Lay the tortilla in baking dish and if you're using the meat, put in about 2-3 tablespoons. Place the cheese on top of the meat. Fold one edge over the cheese, then the other one, then turn the whole thing over, folded side down, in baking dish. Repeat for each tortilla. Sprinkle any leftover sauce and/or cheese on top of enchiladas.
Place in 400 degree oven for 15 minutes or until cheese is melted.
http://mexicanfood.about.com/od/deliciousmaindishes/r/Enchiladas.htm
There you go, lots of mexican ideas for you.
Stay away from Taco bell if you want to learn about Mexican food. Open up a fast food restaurant that does not seem like fast food. Look at a restaraunt like Chipotle. They do a great job in making some good food. They even have barbacoa on their menu. But they keep their menu simple. That's what you must do. Pick a few recipes or dishes, get the most insane salsa recipes and perfect it. There is a reason restaurants like El Pollo Loco and Chipotle have done well. The are fast food, but they do not have that McDonald feel. Also look at the fish taco explosion by Rubios Fish Taco, Senor Fish etc.. People are going to Mexico, finding authentic dishes and finding a way to make Americans like them.
If you want to own your own business, you will need experience in management and business administration.
If you get a job at Taco Bell, you would get the full range of experience, starting with cooking. If you show promise, they'll train you for management. You could then save up money and buy your own Taco Bell franchise. You'd have the advantage of buying into a ready-made successful business.
My thinking is that people who want to own a restaurant but don't want to go to school for business/hospitality management would take an entry-level job in a restaurant and work their way up, getting as much experience as they can at different levels.
Someone who's taken college-level courses is likely to be moved more quickly through the different levels.
Well I am married to a Mexican and have been to Mexico many times and I will tell you, the food at taco bell is NOT Mexican. I make Mexican dishes almost every night and the basics are tomato's, onions and chili's(dried and fresh). Then you can add in herbs like cilantro, mint, Epezote and a few others I can't seem to remember. Spices like bay leaves(laurel), cumin, oregano, thyme, corriander and quite a few others. Google authentic Mexican and you can get lots of other ingredients to make your taste buds dance.
Last time I was in Sacramento, I seemed to see an awful lot of Mexicans around...Don't you have any Mexican friends or even neighbors you have not gotten around to getting to know and who you can invite to come over to dinner and bring their granny to show you a few things?
edit: Also, on a more business level...plan to attend the next food trade show in your area...I don't know if Sacramento has a convention center or not...but since I often work at our trade shows in Seattle, I know you can get a very good idea about costs for both equipment and food products. We have several a year here. (I am an electrician when I am there, but as a cook the food shows are my favorite ones...also at the end they often sell or give away stuff to save shipping costs...I got my favorite and most expensive knife for kess than 1/2 the price...(a Global)
I am from South America and I'm studying to be a chef, the secret that Mexicans have to make these meals is to make good "tortillas" (a flat bread) with the flour corn (is yellow and very thin) and have a "comal " Where they cook them.. and then to make sauces is a matter of putting pepper and chili on everything ... but there are some cases their use cheese or avocado sauce "guacamole" .. you should try to do in your house falling recipes from the Internet or make a trip to Mexico for a few months either and learn the techniques and also buy utensils necessary to use ..
Well, taco bell in my opinion isn't real Mexican food, it's an Americanized version and doesn't taste as good as fresh as homemade Mexican food.
Really to make your own Mexican creations, all you need is a bit of imagination and these ingredients:
Tortillas
Ground Beef (taco seasonings)
Cheese
Tomatoes
Re-fried Beans
Sauteed Onions
Some Hot Sauce
And then just create what you want.
Take yourself to mexico, and have a look at how the traditional dishes are made, there is a big misconception about what mexican food actually is, so maybe you would be more succesful if you opened something that was actually traditional?
I think the key to mexican food and all latin food is seasoning. Go to an international food store and look for spanish seasonings, I like a seasoning called Sazon goya, it usually comes in an orange box, perfect for enchiladas and soups.
I wouldn't even call the food they serve at Taco Bell real Mexican cooking!. Also I wouldn't try and open a Mexican restaurant unless it is a chain restaurant. Too hard to compete with the big guys. Try using this website for some
recipes
Stay away from Taco bell if you want to learn about Mexican food. Open up a fast food restaurant that does not seem like fast food. Look at a restaraunt like Chipotle. They do a great job in making some good food. They even have barbacoa on their menu. But they keep their menu simple. That's what you must do. Pick a few recipes or dishes, get the most insane salsa recipes and perfect it. There is a reason restaurants like El Pollo Loco and Chipotle have done well. The are fast food, but they do not have that McDonald feel. Also look at the fish taco explosion by Rubios Fish Taco, Senor Fish etc.. People are going to Mexico, finding authentic dishes and finding a way to make Americans like them.
If you want to own your own business, you will need experience in management and business administration.
If you get a job at Taco Bell, you would get the full range of experience, starting with cooking. If you show promise, they'll train you for management. You could then save up money and buy your own Taco Bell franchise. You'd have the advantage of buying into a ready-made successful business.
My thinking is that people who want to own a restaurant but don't want to go to school for business/hospitality management would take an entry-level job in a restaurant and work their way up, getting as much experience as they can at different levels.
Someone who's taken college-level courses is likely to be moved more quickly through the different levels.
Well I am married to a Mexican and have been to Mexico many times and I will tell you, the food at taco bell is NOT Mexican. I make Mexican dishes almost every night and the basics are tomato's, onions and chili's(dried and fresh). Then you can add in herbs like cilantro, mint, Epezote and a few others I can't seem to remember. Spices like bay leaves(laurel), cumin, oregano, thyme, corriander and quite a few others. Google authentic Mexican and you can get lots of other ingredients to make your taste buds dance.
Last time I was in Sacramento, I seemed to see an awful lot of Mexicans around...Don't you have any Mexican friends or even neighbors you have not gotten around to getting to know and who you can invite to come over to dinner and bring their granny to show you a few things?
edit: Also, on a more business level...plan to attend the next food trade show in your area...I don't know if Sacramento has a convention center or not...but since I often work at our trade shows in Seattle, I know you can get a very good idea about costs for both equipment and food products. We have several a year here. (I am an electrician when I am there, but as a cook the food shows are my favorite ones...also at the end they often sell or give away stuff to save shipping costs...I got my favorite and most expensive knife for kess than 1/2 the price...(a Global)
I am from South America and I'm studying to be a chef, the secret that Mexicans have to make these meals is to make good "tortillas" (a flat bread) with the flour corn (is yellow and very thin) and have a "comal " Where they cook them.. and then to make sauces is a matter of putting pepper and chili on everything ... but there are some cases their use cheese or avocado sauce "guacamole" .. you should try to do in your house falling recipes from the Internet or make a trip to Mexico for a few months either and learn the techniques and also buy utensils necessary to use ..
Well, taco bell in my opinion isn't real Mexican food, it's an Americanized version and doesn't taste as good as fresh as homemade Mexican food.
Really to make your own Mexican creations, all you need is a bit of imagination and these ingredients:
Tortillas
Ground Beef (taco seasonings)
Cheese
Tomatoes
Re-fried Beans
Sauteed Onions
Some Hot Sauce
And then just create what you want.
Take yourself to mexico, and have a look at how the traditional dishes are made, there is a big misconception about what mexican food actually is, so maybe you would be more succesful if you opened something that was actually traditional?
I think the key to mexican food and all latin food is seasoning. Go to an international food store and look for spanish seasonings, I like a seasoning called Sazon goya, it usually comes in an orange box, perfect for enchiladas and soups.
I wouldn't even call the food they serve at Taco Bell real Mexican cooking!. Also I wouldn't try and open a Mexican restaurant unless it is a chain restaurant. Too hard to compete with the big guys. Try using this website for some
recipes
