Tacos (Ruidoso: to eat, best, dinner)

[JDTH]

I love the carne asada with the flour tortillas and pico de gallo. Steak tacos. Yum!!!

[Poncho_NM]

Originally Posted by desert sun

you got to be kidding me, those are tacos, thats the way they are served, you squeeze some lime on them and fold them yourself.

No, I am not kidding, if they are not folded or rolled up they are not tacos. Read up on the original Spanish meaning of the word Taco (A plug, a wad, folded etc). The picture you show comes from a site which calls them Tacos, they say use "Tortillas" but never mention what type, they say heat the "Tortillas" and put the items on, that's it...

Originally Posted by desert sun

Have you ever ate at a little Mexican restaurant, order Carne Asada tacos and they will look like this, I've had them in Portales,Albuquerque and El Paso.

At a little Mexican restaurant? Yes. I have driven from Juarez, Mexico to the Panama Canal with three other friends, which goes completely through Mexico, about 1,500 miles and about 1,000 miles after that. I have been on every Mexican border town of Arizona, New Mexico and Texas several times at one time or another.

Originally Posted by desert sun

tostadas are on a crispy yellow corn tortilla

Tostadas began as stale tortillas, and that's why they don't fold well, they were heated by toasting or deep frying and then the fillings were added on top. They are usually corn tortillas but in some areas flour tortillas are common. Some places they are stacked...

Rich

[lalahartma]

Soft corn is the only way to go. I was hoping it was New Mexican!

[jaxart]

This is digressing, I know, but I just thought of something. I was born and raised in El Paso and spent nearly half my life living there (35 years) and there was a restaurant chain called LEO'S Mexican Food that served a #3 combination plate that became the standard for competing restaurants. They served chips and salsa before the meal and a sopapilla with honey for desert, always a part of any meal ordered from their menu - no added cost.

The chips they served with salsa are tostitos (corn tortilla chips), which are similar in texture to hard shell tacos and the flat corn tortillas used for making tostadas.

Sopapillas can be more like pita bread, but I much prefer the very light crispy ones that have a large air pocket into which honey can be poured. And please hold the cinnamon and powdered sugar on mine!

[Poncho_NM]

Originally Posted by jaxart

Sopapillas can be more like pita bread,

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And please hold the cinnamon and powdered sugar on mine!

Why? When I break my diet, I go full bore


I just have to keep away from Sopapillas, but I do like them...


Rich

[jaxart]

Originally Posted by Poncho_NM

I just have to keep away from Sopapillas, but I do like them...

I don't imagine anyone eating in a Tex/Mex restaurant is worried about DIET!

Indian fry bread (NOT Nat. Amer. fry bread) is somewhat similar to sopapilla, and seems to be a staple sold to tourists on the nearby Mescalero reservation. I see signs on small buildings advertising it. And of course the fry bread is always found at state and county fairs and pow-wows in NM.

[karmathecat]

Another use for stale tortillas...chilaquiles..not too easy to find in NM, but there are a couple of places here in ABQ that have them on the menu ( Mariscos Altimar is one )

[mike b 1]

In Baja the street taco's are called 'taquito's. used to be 'five for a buck', and the fish taco's in Ensenada were 35 cents. (thats where they originated).

[karmathecat]

And in Ensenada the fish in the fish tacos was usually caught that morning.

[AlisonL]

Ok I am curious about fish tacos. They don't even sound good to me.
What kind of fish do they use in them? Are they made the same way only with fish instead of beef??

I just cannot bring myself to try one.