You might be surprised how many great Mexican recipes you can make with a single pound of ground beef! It's one of the most versatile protein sources you can buy and I use it all the time. The key is to season it with chipotles, so no more seasoning packs! Once you get hooked on...
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Picadillo Stuffed Poblano Peppers
These Picadillo Stuffed Poblano Peppers want to be part of your life! They're a great curveball for your weeknight kitchen rotation and will instantly light up the faces at the dinner table. Including yours 🙂 How To Make Stuffed Poblano Peppers If you're new to Picadillo, it's a hearty beef mixture that will quickly become...
Easy Ground Beef Burritos
The combo of chipotle-infused beef and Pico de Gallo is all you need for a quick, satisfying batch of burritos -- that's the key to these Easy Ground Beef Burritos! Sure, you can load them up with other fixings if you want, but I regularly come back to this simple combo when I'm craving a...
Easy Ground Beef Tostadas
I've been in tostada heaven the past few weeks! These Ground Beef Tostadas are the latest incarnation -- they are tremendously satisfying and a welcome upgrade to the beef hardshell tacos I grew up with 🙂 How To Make Ground Beef Tostadas So why so many tostadas lately? Well...I think it's the ratio! The fixings-to-tortilla...
Birria de Res Recipe (Beef Birria)
After weeks of making vegetarian dishes I started to crave this rich, succulent Birria de Res for some reason 🙂 And while Birria is traditionally made with goat in Mexico, I get way more mileage from a batch of Beef Birria so I used beef brisket for this batch. This 3 lb. recipe makes...
Albondigas Soup
This is a sleeper recipe on the site so I am reposting it! It doesn't get much attention, probably because of the strange name, but it's a real treat and I hope more of you consider making it. Yes, the meatballs are technically the star of this Albondigas Soup, but it's the veggies that have...
Dark Birria
Ever since making Mole Poblano I've been enamored with the chile combo used in that recipe: Anchos, Mulatos, and Pasillas. So it was inevitable that those chiles would make their way into a batch of Birria right?! How To Make Dark Birria Yes, this Dark Birria is unconventional and it may get a ticket from...
Ground Beef Chili con Carne
Need a faster Chili con Carne recipe for weeknights? Make it with ground beef and you can have dinner on the table in about 30 minutes if you're in full Ninja mode 🙂 And if you don't have the exact chile combo on hand please don't let that stop you from making it! There's lots...
Tacos de Alambre
Looking for an easy one-pan dinner to spice up the weeknight meal routine?! These Tacos de Alambre will fit the bill as they are wildly satisfying and more than willing to accommodate what you've got in the fridge. How To Make Tacos de Alambre Think fajitas or kebobs in taco form and you're right on track. ...
Chili con Carne
Hello Chili con Carne! Did you grow up with Chili on the weekly meal rotation? I certainly did and I was never a huge fan of the dish until I tried it with dried chiles as the foundation. Using dried chiles will give you a massive upgrade in flavor and will most likely put this...