Beef and Tomatillo Salsa Tacos

Homemade corn tortillas. Chuck roast cooked at 140 degrees for 24 hours and thinly sliced. Homemade tomatillo salsa from last season's harvest. Homemade mozzarella. Diced avocado and rice.

So much for a recovery meal. 4.5 hours running followed by insanse food prep means it's time to eat again. Oh and I had 4 of them.

Recovery Dish

Left over chhicken with baked sweet potato fries topped with avocado, salsa, and fresh ricotta.



Chipotle Potato Salad with Avocado, Bacon, and Fresh Ricotta

The avocado craze continues in the form of a potato salad that will make you forget your grandmother's nasty mayonnaise laced dish with the hastily dice celery. This potato salad takes the cake. The smokiness of the chipotle peppers mixed with the creaminess of the fresh ricotta and avocado makes a positively delightful side dish.  No holiday gathering will be the same without it. You will long for it. You will talk about it. And most importantly you won't forget to make it, share it, and eat it.

2 pounds red creamer style potatoes. Cooked until soft

2 avocados diced

1 C. fresh ricotta - the store bought blob will never do. Skip the ricotta if not using fresh.

6 strips of bacon cooked and crumbled

1/2 red onion finely diced

2 T. pureed chipotle in adobo

1/4 C. sour cream

2 T. lime juice

Salt, fresh ground pepper, lemon zest

Corn, Pepper, and Potato Soup

Corn Cakes

Corn. Corn on the cob. Creamed corn. Corn and lima beans. Corn syrup. The list could go on and on and on. I have shied away from corn recently but decided to give corn cakes a shot after finding masa harina (corn meal treated with lime) at the grocery. It was an impulse buy. As I type that I laugh. How many people buy corn flour on whim as if it were a creamy chocolate mousse or velvety red cupcake?

Corn cakes are quite simple:. Corn flour, corn kernels, course corn meal, baking powder, salt, water, almond milk, and honey. You could also mix in an egg if you wanted.

 Stir the dry, stir in the wet and then pour on the griddle. Despite their simplicity I screwed up as I was initially going to make corn tortillas. I mixed the corn meal and water only to have visions of fluffier corn cakes fill my head.

Despite the screw-up the batter came together after some aggressive mixing.

They turned out ok.

Corn Cake topped with Braised Red Cabbage, Pulled Pork, and Mustard BBQ Sauce