Food Mike Curl Eats

I don’t know much at all about Mexican food, so I ended up unknowingly making juevos rancheros while trying to get rid of my salsa and guacamole for breakfast.  I’m pretty sure there are numerous ways to make juevos rancheros, but like I said, I wasn’t intending to make anything specific and did not know until I showed it to someone that that was in fact what I had made.

Fry two small corn tortillas in vegetable or corn oil until crispy. 

Spread re fried beans on top of one and then place the other on top, making a sandwich.

Fry two eggs sunny side up with a piece of pepper jack on top.

Place the eggs on top of your tortilla re fried bean sandwich.

Top with salsa and serve with guacamole, sour cream, and hot sauce.

Guacamole

Chop 2 avocados and as much cilantro as you like. Dice 1/2 of a red onion. Mince or smash 2 cloves of garlic and 1 jalapeno pepper.  Smash everything together in a medium sized bowl with the juice of 2 limes, and season with a decent amount of cumin, chipotle powder, cayenne, paprika, a little black pepper, and little curry powder.  Chop two more avocados and mix them into the bowl with everything else until the newly added avocados begin to blend in and the chunks are not as large.  Adding the two chopped avocados at the end allows you to make sure that the flavoring ends up throughout all of the guacamole while a decent level of chunkiness.

For the Salsa I used canned tomatoes which is something I normally don’t do for salsa, but this worked out great.  I took one 28 oz can and one 12 oz can of whole peeled tomatoes and strained the juice from them.  I placed the tomatoes in a blender with 2/3 of a red onion, 4 serrano peppers, 2 cloves of garlic, a 1/3 cup of olive oil, a half bunch of cilantro, the juice of 2 limes, and some salt and pepper.  I blended it until it was a reasonable texture and it turned out great.

To make the tortilla chips I just took corn tortillas and cut them into chip sized pieces and fried them in vegetable oil until they were golden and crispy, placed them on a paper towel to dry, and seasoned them with salt while they were still hot.

I didn’t make the sour cream or re fried beans, but I was starving and wanted more than just the chips, salsa, and guacamole.

This is from the superbowl so yeah it is pretty old.  First time ever making fried chicken.

Marinade the chicken in buttermilk and lemon juice for a few hours/overnight.

Take it out of the marinade and let the excess drip off.

Dredge in flour with lots of garlic powder, paprika, cayenne, salt, and whatever other spices you want.

Fry at around 375 turning the pieces over half way through if you have a shallow pan like I do.

I’ll put a recipe up for jalapeno poppers when I have a more successful method, but they were still pretty good.

Baked Beans

Blend 1/2 cup molasses, 1/4 cup ketchup, 3 tablespoons dijion mustard, 1 small can chipotles in adobo, salt and pepper, and 1 jalapeno. This will make a little more of the sauce than is needed though.

Mix into 2  28 oz cans of cannellini beans in a baking dish. 

Cover with strips of thick uncooked bacon and a few sprigs of rosemary. 

Bake at 350 for about 25 minutes.

Chicken and bell pepper fried with a habanero, two Thai peppers, 2 cloves of garlic, a few tablespoons of papaya hot sauce, crushed red pepper flakes, salt, and lime juice

This is how you clean a frying pan after making wings in my kitchen. Don’t worry you do wash it afterwards though.  This eliminates the need to scrub it a lot.

I LOVE WILLIAM SONOMA

But I can’t afford anything from it

MORNING STAR BRAND FROZEN SPICY BLACK BEAN BURGERS ARE AMAZING.

This is two of them fried with garlic and placed upon a toasted whole wheat bun spread with spicy brown mustard and ketchup, and topped with sliced avocado, sliced red onion, sliced tomato, lots of spinach, and some pepper jack cheese.