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Easy recipes to make at condo - 6/5/2012 10:28:09 PM
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TwistedDrum5
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Just as the title says, what are some easy recipes me and the wifey can make in our condo? Breakfast, lunch,dinner, anything. :)
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RE: Easy recipes to make at condo - 6/8/2012 6:58:02 PM
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snowbound
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Here's some of our favorites when staying "off the reservation"...
Breakfast:
1) Huevos Revoltos (old family hunting camp recipe ). Saute up some onions, sliced bell peppers, seeded & sliced jalapenos and anything else that sounds good or can be easily captured. Scramble up some eggs, add the previous mixture, any leftover diced meat (pollo, carnitas, pavo, res, Spam...) from the night(s) before. Wrap in warmed flour tortillas along with some queso fresco and serve with salsa or home-made pico de gallo as well as fresh pineapple, papaya and any other fruit you can find at the Akumal Farmer's market on Saturdays and Wednesdays (I think).
2) Loncheria breakfast (even a favorite at home). Fry and drain well some crumbled chorizo, heat up a can of La Costena refried black or regular beans, and warm some corn tortillas. Smear a layer of beans on the warm tortillas sprinkle on some chorizo and queso fresco, top with an egg fried to your liking and some salsa verde o rojo. Serve with the requisite fruit medley mentioned above.
3) Take a morning off and head over to Turtle Bay Bakery for the "Ex-Pat" breakfast and a cinnamon roll, or hit the Loncheria Akumalito for their breakfast chilaquiles. 
Lunce & dinner ideas to follow...
Snow(chowtime!!!)bound
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RE: Easy recipes to make at condo - 6/9/2012 8:47:19 AM
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snowbound
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ORIGINAL: barata
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Breakfast:
anything else that can be easily captured.
Snow(chowtime!!!)bound
Like coatimundis???
Actually, I was thinking iguana.
The coatis can get sorta mean when cornered by a man wielding a chef's knife...
Anyway, lunch.
We eat most lunches out at the Loncheria, the taco place next to Lol Ha or we've even tried the HMB food truck. However, seeing that most of the local restaurants serve you more food than a reasonable person can consume in one sitting, Leftover Dorado Tacos do make for a tasty lunch!!! We also had a calabasitas squash, more jalapenos and a yellow pepper that worked well with the fish...
As for dinner, our cooking motto in Mexico seems to be "Everything is Eventually Fajitas". Beef, pork, chicken, fish... Combined (or not - veggie fajitas are also great) with a medley of whatever is available at the Farmer's Market and served with flour or corn tortillas is hard to beat for simplicity, taste, some variety and often better nutritional value (and far less salt) than the restaurants. More beans and fresh fruit round out the meal. Oh, and more wine.
Compared to the North American Mega-Farms, the Mexicans also have a "novel" approach to fruits and vegetables...
They pick them when they're ripe!!!
Sure beats the hell out of our bland, pithy, U.S. supermarket tomatoes, peaches, melons, etc. 
As you can see from the pictures, we go through a lot of corn (our preference over flour) tortillas - at home as well as in Mexico. But for some reason, Tortillas de maiz are hard to find in the Akumal & PA stores.  However, we found that the Loncheria Akumalito would sell us 2 dozen for $10p.
Snow(will cater for airfare)bound
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RE: Easy recipes to make at condo - 6/10/2012 10:48:38 AM
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Badger
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ORIGINAL: TwistedDrum5
Just as the title says, what are some easy recipes me and the wifey can make in our condo? Breakfast, lunch,dinner, anything. :)
When we stay at a condo, we always stop on the way & buy...
Tortillas
Cheese
Ham
Salsa
Eggs
Onion
Vegetable oil
With these few ingredients, we can make several different meals..
For breakfast, we usually scramble some eggs and add some of the other ingredients on the list, then wrap the mix in tortillas.
For an easy Lunch, we use some of the same ingredients to make quesadillas.
And, like Snowbound, we frequently have leftovers from dinner the night before that we can make use of for either breakfast or lunch. 
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RE: Easy recipes to make at condo - 6/10/2012 12:44:01 PM
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snowbound
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ORIGINAL: Badger
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ORIGINAL: TwistedDrum5
Just as the title says, what are some easy recipes me and the wifey can make in our condo? Breakfast, lunch,dinner, anything. :)
When we stay at a condo, we always stop on the way & buy...
Tortillas
Cheese
Ham
Salsa
Eggs
Onion
Vegetable oil
With these few ingredients, we can make several different meals..
For breakfast, we usually scramble some eggs and add some of the other ingredients on the list, then wrap the mix in tortillas.
For an easy Lunch, we use some of the same ingredients to make quesadillas.
And, like Snowbound, we frequently have leftovers from dinner the night before that we can make use of for either breakfast or lunch.
You two got off easy!!!
For our November trip to Mi Casa Del Mar, we dropped around $3,000p at Soriana. 
Chicken pieces, a bottle of tequila, steaks, beer, sliced deli meats & cheese, a bottle of vodka, chorizo, beer, eggs, canned frijoles, a few bottles of wine (OK, several), tortilla chips, ground coffee, assorted tetra boxes of salsa, beer, flour tortillas, long-lasting fruits & veggies like onions, garlic heads potatoes, pineapples, a few roma tomatoes, several tetra boxes of fruit juices, a big bag of limes, beer and whatever else looks tasty for a ten-day stay. Beware, the panaderia at Soriana is extremely hard to resist!!!
When we get to the condo, we freeze half the fresh meats (and thaw them as needed the 2nd half of the trip) and hit the Farmer's Market both days it's open for fresh fruits & vegetables. There's also a couple of Super-Minis along the HMB road for safe ice (hielo purificado) and more beer and wine if you run low...
Oh, and as several of you already know - I bring my cooking "stuff":
Snow(luggage PLUS groceries, we're gonna need a bigger van)bound
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