mexican | tex mex

mexican | tex mex
Tacos with Sea Scallops Recipe

Tacos with Sea Scallops and Jicama-Peanut Slaw

This crazily creative departure from convention jumbles together scallops, jicama, peanuts, and pork rinds to stunning effect.

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  • 30 M
  • 30 M
  • 3
Homemade Limeade Recipe

Limeade | Agua de Limón

More tart than sweet is what you’ll find this perfectly puckery little limeade to be. That’s sorta the point, eh?

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  • 10 M
  • 10 M
  • 23
Chile-Spiked Margarita Recipe

Chile-Spiked Margarita

Subtly sweet with a defiant heat. If you’ve ever sought an excuse to start making your own margaritas, this is it.

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  • 25 M
  • 25 M
  • 2
Adobo Marinated Pork Chops Recipe

Adobo Marinated Pork Chops

There’s adobo and then there’s adobo. But let’s not get hung up on semantics. Not when these pork chops are waiting to be devoured.

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  • 15 M
  • 1 H, 30 M
  • 3
Cheese Enchiladas Recipe

Cheese Enchiladas

Got chile sauce? Corn tortillas? Cheese? Sour Cream? Limes? Good. Then you’ve got the makings for the easiest enchiladas ever.

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  • 1 H, 15 M
  • 1 H, 35 M
  • 15
Potatoes with Mexican Chorizo Recipe

Potatoes with Mexican Chorizo | Papas con Chorizo

Four words we love to see on a random weeknight recipe? “Crazy easy recipe alert!” Also, “Is really insanely satiating.”

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  • 25 M
  • 50 M
  • 14
White Bean and Chicken Chili Recipe

White Bean and Chicken Chili

Stop your scoffing. This may not be conventional chili, but it’s no sissy imposter. It’s just a little subtler, soupier, and smokier.

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  • 35 M
  • 1 H
  • 18
Sweet and Spicy Taco Recipe

Sweet and Spicy Tacos

Who needs those spice packets? There’s ample zing in these slightly citrusy tacos to be both sassy and sophisticated.

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  • 30 M
  • 30 M
  • 9
Molletes Recipe

Molletes

We may not know how to pronounce this insanely satiating comfort food fix, though we’ve certainly mastered tucking into it.

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  • 5 M
  • 15 M
  • 12
Braised Chicken with Tomatillos Recipe

Braised Chicken with Tomatillos

Slightly tart and eminently easy, this tomatillo sauce makes ample to stash some in the fridge for later. Cook once, eat twice. Whew.

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  • 25 M
  • 1 H
  • 22
Pico de Gallo Recipe

Pico de Gallo

A Mexican staple, this sauce of sorts is essentially fresh salsa that’s named, curiously, for a rooster’s beak.

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  • 15 M
  • 45 M
  • 11
Carnitas Recipe

Carnitas | Mexican Braised and Fried Pork

Get your pig on with chunks of crisp-edged, knee-wobblingly tender lusciousness. Sorta screams for some soft tortillas, rice and beans, and cerveza.

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  • 20 M
  • 2 H
  • 33
Michelada Cocktail

Michelada

Pronounced in different ways and made in countless incarnations, this storied cocktail has just one constant: its dedicated following.

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  • 5 M
  • 5 M
  • 11
Chicken Enchiladas

Chicken Enchiladas | Black Bean Enchiladas

Enchiladas that are not for the eminently indecisive, these offer you options galore–chicken, black bean, or some of each–tucked in a tortilla and smothered in sauce.

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  • 1 H
  • 2 H
  • 14
Mexican Chocolate Pops

Mexican Chocolate Pops

A little something dark and decadent to swoon over on a sultry summer afternoon. A little cinnamon- and cayenne-laced chocolate and cream never hurt anyone…

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  • 15 M
  • 15 M
  • 4
Chilaquiles

Chilaquiles

Essentially eggs scrambled with chips and salsa, chilaquiles is equally enticing in the a.m. as the p.m., with a cup of hot joe or a bottle of cold cerveza.

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  • 25 M
  • 25 M
  • 28
Spicy Mango and Hibiscus Ice Pops

Hibiscus Ice Pops

Think the color of these crazy crimson-colored, Caribbean-inspired ice pops is flamboyant? Wait until you experience the taste.

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  • 10 M
  • 1 H
  • 6
Rhubarb Tequila Cocktail Recipe

Rhubarb and Tequila Cocktail

Stunning and sophisticated, this cocktail relies on rhubarb for tartness, orange for intrigue, sugar for sweetness, and tequila for an afternoon nap.

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  • 10 M
  • 1 H, 30 M
  • 8
Hibiscus Ice Pops and Spicy Mango Pops

Spicy Mango Ice Pops

Yup. Ice pops. But forget about pleasing the kids. These lovelies have refined flavors—spicy mango with a lick of lime–sure to woo the sophisticate in you.

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  • 15 M
  • 20 M
  • 6
Barbecue Beef Brisket Tacos

Chipotle Maple Barbecue Beef Brisket

With its sweet heat and sigh-inducing tenderness, this brisket boasts all the messy, smoky goodness of a backyard barbecue–minus the messy, smoky backyard barbecue.

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  • 20 M
  • 4 H
  • 4
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