Sanchez Tortilla Soup
Based on the recipe from Lorena’s parents, the best tortilla soup of all time. Possibly the best soup of all time. I modified slightly to use a rotisserie chicken, because I’m lazy, and rotisserie chickens are awesome.
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Based on the recipe from Lorena’s parents, the best tortilla soup of all time. Possibly the best soup of all time. I modified slightly to use a rotisserie chicken, because I’m lazy, and rotisserie chickens are awesome.
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The Chicken Milanesa was the best dish at CiUDAD, a Latin American fusion restaurant Diane and I used to go to even though we totally could not afford it. The key to the dish was the roasted garlic-ancho sauce. We tried to reverse engineer it several times when we lived in LA, but never came up with something quite like it. Years later, long after CiUDAD had closed, I contacted the manager of the restaurant that had replaced CiUDAD—it was a long-shot but I thought maybe they would at least have some information on the dishes of the former restaurant (which had been owned by the same owners as the new restaurant.)
(more…)We found this recipe in Cooking Light, which seems totally implausible, but no matter - all the meats are cooked in bacon. And then they stew in the slow cooker…
I tore this recipe out of the October 2011 issue of Esquire and stuck it on the refrigerator, where it taunted me for several months. I finally made it when…