Wednesday, March 6, 2019

Enchiladas verdes

She's speaking a fer'ner language but the thing says "facil" and that means you can follow along. Plus she's cute.

I'm a bit surprised she skips roasting the jalapeños as Mexican like to do. They're unripe and they need that singe and blistering.

Obviously you can make a milder version by using poblanos instead of jalapeños or serranos as she suggests. Both of those are mid range on the Scoville scale but with so many you might find them uncomfortably hot.

And there's nothing worse than a mild jalapeño. Those vapid things have no reason for being.



I thought of this because someone from Essex England likes Mexican food and posted a video he made, calling himself Essexican. 

It makes me sad.
So much trouble for Mr. Hands and not even close.

* Flour tortillas instead of corn tortillas.
* Misses the point of blanching the corn tortillas in oil then soaking them in the sauce.
* All that trouble with dried chiles because fresh are most likely not available.
* All the mess with seeding fresh tomatoes then blending and adding tinned tomato and soaked sun dried tomato.
* Cilantro is known as coriander on fer'ner-island.
* Mexican cheese is unavailable.

Then only two. 

Not all that bad actually, for a couple burritos. Probably better than Chipotle's.



The Mexican girl does it with ease and the result is great.

The British lad does it with great superficial difficulty and the result is ersatz.

That's the thing about us cook types. We become critical of efforts worse than we can do for ourselves. 

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