Mexican Food Part 2

As mentioned earlier Mexican food here is almost non-existent…So we have taken to making our own thanks to the help of the Tex Mex cookbook. On Sunday we had a little Mexican Fiesta for one of Jess’ colleague’s birthday. We made the tortillas, spanish rice, and guacamole, while they provided the chicken and beans for fajitas (or as close as you can get to fajitas).

We had attempted to make tortillas once before with mild success, but this time they really turned out well. Making tortillas is a two person operation (for us anyway) – I would roll them out and Jess would heat them in the skillet. We had quite a nice assembly line working. The key this time was rolling them out to be nearly paper thin and heating them just right in the skillet. The Spanish rice turned out to be surprisingly easy to make and tasted fantastic.

The guacamole also turned out well – but homemade guacamole runs in my family – my brother was the winner of the 1st Annual Kingwood Area Sadaam Hussein Memorial Guac-Off. For my recipe I used 5 large avocados, 1 qtr onion diced, 1 half tomato diced, fresh lemon juice, cumin, garlic powder, salt, & pepper to taste. The key here is the perfect avocados – which are readily available in Australia at the moment (for a price - $2.50 each!). Also I used a potato masher to get the perfect consistency – smooth and creamy with medium sized avocado chunks…yum!