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I love Mexican food more and more as time passes. I have cooked it, but I prefer eating it out. Let somebody else do all the work. I don’t need to roast tomatoes and chiles just to make salsa. I don’t need to boil a chicken, shred it and then wrap it in a fried corn tortilla in order to make enchiladas and then make the rice, the beans, the guacamole, etc. It’s all too much for one.
I have made tamales (a family effort), corn tortillas (hours of practice), salsa, flan, chili sauces, breakfast dishes and a few others. I’ve done prep work assembling enchiladas. My favorites, though, are making main courses like shrimp or fish a la Veracruzana, using butter, capers, tomatoes and green olives in the sauce.