Describe really tasty Mexican food?!


Question: Describe really tasty Mexican food?
I'm doing this Spanish project where I have to make up a menu for a Spanish restaurant. Some of the food items have to have those outlandish restaurant descriptions, the ones that go "Try out sizzling ribeye steak, cooked to absolute tender perfection, with the most delicious baked potato on the side" blah blah blah.
Basically, I hate Mexican food. LOL. So I don't really know how to describe things like tamales or tacos or burritos and all the other things. I don't really know what they're made of or what they taste like, what sauce comes with them, etc.

Sooo just describe a bunch of awesome Mexican food everyone loves but me and you will be helping me out a ton with my project.

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Menudo is the soup made with tripes and hominy sold on Saturday and Sunday .You top your bowl with cilantro,chopped onions and more hot chile sauce. Corn or flour tortillas are dipped in the spicy hot soup as you eat the menudo and sweat out the toxins from the weekend of partying.Delicious



Here are some descriptors that I think would work well for you:
Tostada - crisp fried tortilla bowl filled with mildly spiced refried beans, shredded grilled chicken, garden fresh tomatoes, crisp salad shreds and creamy guacamole. Topped with finely shredded cheese and fresh sour cream. (Would probably work for tacos as well)
Tamale - spiced pork and masa wrapped in corn husks then gently steamed to perfection. Served with a spicy tomatillo sauce
Burrito - mildly spiced refried beans, queso fresca, roasted pepper salsa, chopped fresh tomatoes and crisp shredded lettuce wrapped in a steaming hot flour tortilla. Served wet, topped with more roasted pepper salsa.

I love Mexican food.



Tamales are delicious! A tamale is made of masa (a starchy corn based dough), which is steamed in a dried corn husk. The wrapping is discarded before eating. Tamales can be filled with meats, cheese, vegetables, chilies or anything you want. The most common ones my family makes have shredded beef mixed in a red chili sauce.



Just as long as it's tasty and affordable, you're usually going to get a thumbs up from me. ... suffocating paper-plastic sleeve would describe a Taco Bell Quesadilla. .... There's really only so much you can do with Mexican fast food. ..

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Im not a mexican restaurant fan but I make a good vegetarian burrito
make spicy refried beans(pinto), grate mexican cheese or Mont Jack and steam some spinach.
Spoon into wheat tortilla , roll up and pan fry til golden, serve with a hot salsa type sauce.

Veggie friends



The Quesadilla is so warm and chewy with cubed juicy tomatos with crisp culantro
The Taco shell is hot and crunchy with the spicy beef and cool sourn cream
The Salsa is so fresh with the mild hot after taste
bahahh thats all ive got good luck



If you hate Mexican food, why not choose other food from other countries that share Spanish ancestry?



This should help

http://restaurants.about.com/od/menu/a/M…



I lived in Mexico City for a while and not only was there great food all over the place they were fanatics about it being fresh. We could get freshly squeezed orange and grapefruit juice on our block, and there was a guy with a tortilla factory in his garage where we would get them as they came off the conveyor. One of my all time favorite meals wa freshly made string cheese (Oaxaca style), fresh tortillas and beer.

One thing we got addicted to was tacos al pastor. I have not had any here in the US that were even close. Layers of pork were put on a spike and there would be a heat source to one side. They would paint a sauce on the side and rotate the meat, then slice it downwards. You get thin strips of slightly burned pork with a sweet and hot sauce on it, two fresh tortillas, a bit of salsa and some cilantro. We'd get a couple of those, some grilled scallions and a coke for less than fifty cents. But that was a long time ago.



Tacos is one thing.But the Pizzas there are really good! Here's a little something I got from the web

Mexican food is widely available north of the U.S.-Mexico border. Cultural influences left from Spanish colonization of the Southwest and California remain not only in the names of places but also in the ingredients in cooking; these influences are strongly reinforced today by their proximity to northern Mexican states like Sonora, Baja California, and Chihuahuha. Prickly pears (often made into jams) are as popular a food north of the border as they are south. Ingredients common to both sides include chili peppers (the genus 'capsicum'), maize, beans, tomatoes, tortillas, tequila, and beef (both areas have a strong tradition of cattle ranching). However, there is an increasing American influence the farther one is away from Mexico, resulting in variations such as Tex-Mex cuisine. Nachos for example are rarely eaten in Mexico, whereas they are popular in the rest of North America; and the Chimichanga, a deep-fried burrito, is a Mexican-inspired dish popular in the United States.

Hope that helps.




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