Category Archives: Recipes

1.5 kilos Top Chuck Roast (I used an oyster blade roast) , cut into 1.5cm cubes vegetable oil 1 large onion, chopped 1 anaheim pepper, chopped fine (1 Jalapeno and 1 green Bullhorn chilli) 3 large cloves garlic, minced 5 Tbsp Real Chilli Powder … Continue reading →

Ingredients 1 K black beans  (i get ’em at Fiji Market in Newtown for cheap) 3 medium-to-small onions 2 jalapeno peppers, stem removed (Woolies usually) 6-7 cloves garlic salt Instructions 1. Soak the black beans 8 hours or overnight.  Discard liquid. … Continue reading →

Some people call them Breakfast Burritos. To me, a Burrito is something made in a large flour tortilla that’s at last 9 or 10 inches (25-30cm) across, and rolled up into something quite thick.  It can be hand-held, but in … Continue reading →

In Australian butcher cases there is a cured meat sausage called chorizo, but sources tell me that its chorizo in the Portuguese style. In Texas breakfast tacos, chorizo is a spicy, so chili-laden that it’s brick red, uncured fine mince.  … Continue reading →

For Roasting: 2-3 lbs Roma tomatoes 6-12 fresh jalapeno peppers 2 bunches garlic Other Ingredients Salt, to taste Roma tomatoes work best for this recipe. Cut and seeded, they have much more body and density than regular tomatoes. Their flat … Continue reading →

This is a more Australia-friendly alternative to the Tomatillo salsa recipe.  If you can’t get the real deal, this suffices.  Or you can go out and buy a jar of salsa verdes at Harris Farms. Ingredients 1 dozen small Green … Continue reading →

Jalapeño Sauce Australia Note – this is entirely doable in Oz.  The main problem I find is that Coles and Woolworth’s are unable to keep jalapeños in stock (Woolie’s is slightly more reliable). The secondary problem is that pepper heat … Continue reading →

Salsa Verdes (Roasted Tomatillo Salsa) Note for Australia: If there *were* any tomatillos on this continent this year, I have reports that they’ve been wiped out in the Queensland flooding. So yeah, this recipe calls for a fair amount of unobtainium.  Please see … Continue reading →