a customer brought me lunch yesterday and it was darned good!

[NMDemDist2]

she called it "Taco Soup" and it's easy, fast and yummy! here's the recipe she gave me:

2 lbs ground beef
1 onion
3 cans stewed tomatos (chopped corsely)
2 cans pinto beans (drained and rinsed)
2 cans hominy (drained and rinsed)
1 7oz can of green chilis (hot or mild)
1 pkg Taco Seasoning
1 pkg Ranch Dressing Mix
2 1/2 cups of water

brown beef and onion and drain fat, combine with other ingrediants and simmer for 30 minutes. serve with flour tortillas

while it's not "haute cuisine" it's a fast easy dinner for four when your day has been hectic :hi:

[Warpy]

1. A Native American friend did something similar

only she chopped onions, garlic, and celery and sauteed it with the hamburger, threw in some sliced carrots, added a quarter cup of chile powder, hominy, chopped broccoli, sweet corn, summer squash, and water. She slightly thickened it with a mixture of blue cornmeal and water. It was super quick and very good. Flour tortillas completed it.

It also got me over being such a wimp with chile powder. A teaspoon, my ass!

[NMDemDist2]

6. that's a much more substantial hearty stew than this recipe

but 1/4 cup sounds about right. a packet of Taco Seasoning is about 1/4 cup dry weight

[wildeyed]

2. Sounds yummy!

I will give it a go when I am a bit more mobile.

What kind of customer is this? did you get a new job? Not to be nosy or anything..... :hi:

[NMDemDist2]

5. i'll tell you if you tell me ;)

how did your surgery go? what did the Docs say? how's your pain level and management going?

as for me, (you're gonna crack up)






























I'm tending bar again after a 15 year break at the local Elks Lodge. :rofl:

but it's fine, good clientele, GREAT tippers and very very few problem drinkers and for $300-400 a week for 3 nights a week I'm grateful to have it. It's probably the 2nd best resturant gig in town and I just 'happened' to stumble into it. What cracks me up is I'm making almost as much doing that for 25 hours a week as I did working for the county 40 hours a week. No beneys of course, but with DH working 12-14 hours a day, I need to be home to keep the household running and supporting him.

:bounce:

[wildeyed]

7. Bartending!

At the Elks lodge? :rofl: Too funny! Sounds like the money's good and so are the hours. :hug:

Surgery went fine. There was some miscommunication about pain management and the recovery involved way more percoset than I would have liked. But I am fine, just like you said. No desire to abuse at all. I am still beat, but feel a little better every day. Next week I go for a check up and to get my hard cast, so I will know more then, but everything seems to be going fine.

[NMDemDist2]

10. truly!

i'm glad I got so connected to the program again when I moved here. it gave me the courage to take the job and now that i'm doing it, it's not an issue at all

i'm so glad you are on the mend, sorry about the first couple days but glad it's over and behind you

:hug:

[hedgehog]

3. Hominy? Is that grits?

[NMDemDist2]

4. no, they come in cans. Hominy is the whole kernal

grits is just the part that attaches to the cob

it looks like fat white corn kernals

[troubleinwinter]

8. I really aint much for hominy, but corn would substitute, eh?

[NMDemDist2]

9. i don't care for hominy either

but it really worked in this recipe! truly!

i'd go with potato or rice if you omit the hominy since it is the starch of the soup