Ingredients: Pulled Pork Can Black Beans Red onion Red pepper Spicy Brown Mustard Tortillas – Corn or flour, or both Pepper Jack Cheese Olive oil, Worcestershire, Cholula Spices Green onion Cilantro Salsa You Just Can’t Get Enough Pulled Pork Pork Butts went on sale again and you had no choice, you had to buy a [...]

Carnitas Means Pork Okay, you knew that. And you also know how to roast or smoke (for those of you who have smokers) a pork butt and turn it into that most delicious and succulent dish we call PULLED PORK. And when it’s done, and you’ve pulled it and sauced it to perfection, and certainly [...]

Ingredients: 1 sweet potato – diced 1/2 red pepper – diced 1 slice red onion – diced 1 green onion – diced 1 spoon chopped jalapenos in vinegar 2 spoons orange marmalade or apricot preserves Juice of one lime Cholula Chili Lime – a couple squirts to taste Salt and pepper to taste Won’t Find [...]

Ingredients: Beans and rice – red or black (see Roscoe’s Red Beans and Rice) Turkey Mole’ (see Sandy’s Mexican Fiesta) Tortillas (see your grocer) Cheese (Roscoe recommends shredded pepper Jack) Enchiladas Are Easy You go to a Mexican restaurant and order an enchilada, and you get a big plate that looks like it was really [...]

The Menu: Turkey Mole’ Roasted Chicken Enchiladas Carne’ Asada tacos Grilled Quesadillas Carnitas Beans and Rice Guacamole And for Dessert: Grilled Chocolate Quesadillas topped with pina colada ice and vanilla ice cream! Roscoe Was There We all know Roscoe’s lament on the paucity of good Mexican restaurants in the Detroit area. And don’t start talking [...]

Ingredients: Pork Tenderloin (1 for every 3-4 people) Rub: Montreal Steak, smoked paprika, Cholula powder Marinade: Olive Oil, Worcestershire, Cholula tortillas – corn or flour Guacamole’ Salsa 1 hot grill Beer or Margaritas (to stay hydrated while grilling) Another Kind of Carnitas When you’re talking pork, it doesn’t get much more tender than pork tenderloin. [...]

Cinco de Mayo – It’s Not Mexico’s Independence Day Which is what most people think. Cinco de Mayo celebrates the poorly armed and understaffed Mexican army’s victory in 1862 at the Battle of Pueblo over superior French forces, sent by Napoleon to collect a debt. Kind of a reverse Alamo. And eventually (a year later, [...]

It all starts with a beer (preferably Mexican). Crack it open, take a sip, begin: 2-3 ripe avocados (soft but not mushy) 2-3 garlic cloves (minced) green onion (chopped fine) red onion (chopped fine) tomato (1/4 -1/2) (seeded and chopped) cilantro (a few chopped sprinkles) salsa salt pepper smoked paprika chopped jalapenos (optional) cayenne (optional) [...]