Tex-Mex staple

Usage examples of tortilla.

On the exhausting ride home from Modena on the autostrada we stopped at a service area, where I bought Cesare a bag of American tortilla chips.

If none of you are familiar with Mex cooking, I suggest you let me order you some arroz con pollo, which tastes like plain American grub, only more so, with some tortillas which are sort of a cross betwixt pancakes and soda crackers, in taste at least.

They went to work on the green colts daybreak Sunday morning, dressing in the half dark in clothes still wet from their washing them the night before and walking out to the potrero before the stars were down, eating a cold tortilla wrapped around a scoop of cold beans and no coffee and carrying their fortyfoot maguey catchropes coiled over their shoulders.

Use the strips for a Chili Lime Pork Salad or a Chili Lime Pork Omelet, or just wrap them up in low-carb tortillas with a little salsa and sour cream.

Casually, Charley sauntered down to the end of the street of square two-story adobe buildings on which he lived, looked in every direction, ducked into the old kiva to pick up the tortillas and the canteen, and ran off into the scrubby underbrush that bordered the pueblo.

If none of you are familiar with Mex cooking, I suggest you let me order you some arroz con pollo, which tastes like plain American grub, only more so, with some tortillas which are sort of a cross betwixt pancakes and soda crackers, in taste at least.

I immediately work out a tasty pesto-tomato bruschette, quesadilla with garlic chicken, green chile enchiladas, a chili-stuffed steak, arroz verde and a nice quasi-Mexican cinnamon-sugared tortilla cup in which to serve ice cream.

They spent a few moments of silence wrapping flour tortillas around the succulent beef, grilled onions, and assorted fajita fixings.

So the Herrera home was filled with fresh flowers and the caterers set up a Mexican lunch of beans, rice, fajitas and tortillas.

For forty years he had been folding tortillas at the same location, and in an identical white polyester guayabera shirt.

When the last mule headed toward Jalapa, I walked over to a nearby indio hut and purchased a tortilla as my breakfast.

For the tortillas and refritos whipped up by her former Jicarilla kinswoman had hardly any taste at all.

Then a tureen of albondigas soup, and afterward tortillas, tacos, a decent turkey mole.

Carmelita bustled about the room, pouring Wine, passing platters of steaming tortillas and trays heaped with spicy meats and chilis, along with slabs of roast beef.

Tortilla after Tortilla, she ignored me, and then kept right on ignoring me through cutting up vegetables for the colache and frying the chorizos in vinegar and brandy.