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Why are fajitas so freaking sizzling hot when they come out of the kitchen at mexican resturants?
[2009-11-17 13:36:56]
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What do they do to them, and why?


They take a hot skillet put a little fat on it for the sizzle effect, then put the meat and extra on the skillet and carefully bring it out to your table.

Heavenly Southwestern cuisine in Santa Fe

SANTA FE – It seems almost inevitable that Tabla de Los Santos restaurant in the Hotel St. Francis would be run by chef Estevan Garcia. Like the rest of the property, the “table of the saints” has an austere Spanish Colonial decor that suggests a monastery — and Garcia is a former Franciscan friar.

Garcia grew up in New Mexico’s upper Rio Grande valley, watching his mother cook for a family of 11. Before entering the religious order, he honed his skills as a line cook in Santa Fe restaurants. “I learned French technique from the chefs,” he explains. “When you put that together with an understanding of the basic foods people have been eating in New Mexico for centuries, you can do anything.”

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What did Gordon Ramsey of Kitchen nightmares mean the best Mexican food is in LA not Mexico as he helped turn?
[2010-04-15 16:41:43]
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What did Gordon Ramsey of Kitchen nightmares mean the best Mexican food is in LA and not Mexico as he helped turn around a Mexican restaurant in LA ?
He created all new Mexican dishes and the Latino owners were impressed and their place filled


I saw this show. The Lady ran a catering business and then invested over 1 million in this super deluxe Mexican restaurant. The mexicans in the kitchen were clueless and making and freezing food that went back as far as 2 years.The latino woman who ran

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I am redoing my kitchen with a mexican theme?
[2007-04-18 11:58:50]
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I am using handpainted tiles. Any ideas for cabinet hardware? HAS TO BE INEXPENSIVE. Thanks!


Take your existing hardware off and paint in corresponding colors to your tiles. Mexican design is all about warm welcoming colors.

It sounds beautiful.

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