spicy food – Page 3 – Mikey’s Kitchen

Here is another killer recipe I posted on Grub for Guys a couple years ago….

You want something the morning after a night of, um, sipping a few cocktails? Yeah, usually what you’re craving is not just a giant glass of water and some coffee, but some protein to soak up the residual alcohol. Well, here’s a bonus…even if you don’t drink, my Huevos Rancheros recipe tastes good, and it’s a quick, easy and healthy breakfast any day of the week.

Ingredients:
2 six-inch corn tortillas
2 eggs
½ cup refried beans
Hot sauce to taste
Chopped cilantro (optional)

Directions
Put the tortillas in a toaster oven at 300 degrees for about 5 minutes, or until they start to become brown and crisp. Another option is to fry them quickly in a non-stick skillet coated with cooking spray for maybe 30 seconds on each side. The key is to make sure they are crispy and not still limp (no blue pill jokes, please).

Put the refried beans in a microwave safe bowl and nuke them for about 45 seconds. Spread ¼ cup beans on each tortilla.

Then fry the eggs in a medium size skillet until the whites begin to set—that means they are safe to eat and the yolk will be slightly runny. Those yolks will also be delicious and may be enough to cure your hangover alone. Put an egg over the beans on each tortilla, douse liberally with hot sauce and cilantro, and serve.

This recipe serves two people or one really hungry dude. Heck, some guys could probably down three or four of these, but the recipe is easy enough to adapt if that’s the case. Enjoy!

If you’ve been to a good Mexican restaurant before, you’ve seen it on the table–Cholula Hot Sauce. With all due respect to all of the great ones like Tabasco (delicious but thin) and Frank’s (only good on wings), Cholula is the ultimate hot sauce–it’s thick, perfectly spicy and goes with anything. Well, except maybe in chocolate milk.

When the NHL season kicked off recently, Cholula began a campaign for tailgating and recipes on Facebook that can be found here.

Meanwhile, these fine folks sent us a 4-pack of the sauce–all four flavors. I’d had the original flavor and in fact you can almost always find it in our fridge. Here is a review of all four:

Cholula Original–Awesome bright flavor and just the right amount of heat, and all from a simple list of ingredients–mostly peppers, vinegar and salt. And what you taste most is peppers, and that’s how it should be. This is the best hot sauce on the market today, in my humble opinion.

Cholula Chili Lime–The same bright flavor as the original, but with a slightly smoky flavor from paprika, and a big hit of lime juice. Pour this one into your salsa to wake up your taste buds, or in your bloody mary.

Cholula Chili Garlic–Wow, a big hit of garlic and of course the same heat from the original Cholula. But the thing is, the garlic is out front but yet not too overpowering. This is the kind of hot sauce used in many Oriental recipes, but it would also wake up just about any dish.

Cholula Chipotle–Pretty much the same ingredients as the original, but included in the pepper batch are some chipotle peppers, which are dried and smoked jalapenos. So the smoky flavor is even stronger than in the Chili Lime, but very different.

My verdict? I like them all a lot, but I still love the original. But if you haven’t tried Cholula, go buy yourself a bottle or 4-pack, and let me know if it’s not the best hot sauce you’ve tasted.

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