High fructose corn syrup flavored like maple syrup always looks like suspect coffee.

I hear what you are saying but it wasn’t an issue at all. Not sure why but it worked great.

I used to get 400 errors when posting pictures. I eventually tracked it down to image size. If I shrank it to under 500Kb it went through every time. Sometimes a little larger would go through but every picture under that made it.

Madness. Rice two days in a row?

Not an issue unless you have unusually thin chips.

A vegan senior citizen friend ended up with a bunch of free turkeys one holiday. He handed them off to me. I turned three of them into canned turkey meat and bone stock. I gave one away. If you think canned chicken is bad then just imagine how dry canned turkey is. It always needs to be paired with something moist like refried beans or Shakshuka to make it edible. But free protein is free protein.

Most of the cost here was the cheese and chips.

Normally I melt the cheese directly on the chips. I only did a small amount of that here. I typically don’t go with cheese sauce but because I was doing a meat and beans topping instead of straight meat. Beans always make things soggy.

I always heat them up in the oven on a baking sheet.

I thought about deep-frying them or brushing some bacon fat on them and tossing them in the air fryer but these were older tortillas that even when warmed weren’t as cooperative as they could have been and my wife kept asking when dinner would be done so I just went with the basic prep.

I hate it when that happens. But I’m leaving it so your comment makes sense.

That’s most burritos.

These tortillas were too small for another ingredient. However I have a pint of turkey meat left over and a whole lot of tortillas. Tomorrow is grilled cheese. Maybe the next day will be rice and turkey burritos.

That French toast is pretty low on sweetness. The bread has no sugar, the egg wash gets a little sweetness from the cinnamon but the overall effect is more savory. And I’m definitely not creating more dishes to do by segregating sweet and savory.

We hay chickens, ducks and geese. All the eggs taste exactly the same. The difference is the amount of taste. All the magic is in the yolk. A chicken egg is 30% yolk but duck and goose eggs are 50% yolk. And because of the size of goose eggs that means the yolk is the size of one and a half full chicken eggs. Duck eggs are better than chicken but don’t come close to goose eggs.

The obesity epidemic started with the flood of fat free foods in the 80s. It wasn’t the only cause but it played a part.

That’s definitely the goal.

Oh, then you got this. Easy peasy.

Oven broiled. Don’t want to mess with the texture of the beans or clean up the microwave if a bean explodes. The oven is already on to warm the chips.

It’s very basic. Take some dried guajillo peppers, like three or four decent sized ones. Cut off the stems, split them and deseed. Cut them into one inch sections with kitchen shears. Drop in a pot with enough water to cover them. Bring to a boil, remove from heat and let sit for 20 minutes. Put it in a blender and add like one or two garlic clove and maybe two tablespoons to a quarter cup of white onion. Pour in some of the water, maybe all of it? IDK. Blend until smooth. The important part: grab a mess strainer. Use a spoon or rubber spatula to push the liquid through it. Discard the solids. Done.

It’s all eyeballs and instinct. It always needs way less onion than you think. But every ratio is up for grabs. Want it extra spicy, add a deseeded arbol pepper.

Gonna make wing sauce? Double the garlic, transfer the blend to a sauce pot, add some vinegar and too much butter. Heat until the butter is melted. Dip or toss the cooked wings in it.

Want enchiladas? Simmer some whole tomatoes for 45 minutes. Make a much bigger batch. Add the tomatoes, stem holes and all, to the blend. Pour some oil in a frying pan, get it up to 350 and pour the blend in without the splatters giving you 3rd degree burns.

It’s basically a Mexican mother sauce.

It’s the default in this house.