Cheese Enchiladas

[Cajun 11772]

1 hour ago, horn4life said:

Coming in late the the foodie spatula duel, I think I have one thing we can all agree on.  Finishing this meal and heading back to Austin could make it potentially one of the most memorable drives of you life!  I can almost hear in my head..."Goddamnit! (gurgle)I should have stopped in Kingsville..."

If you've hit Kingsville going north then you've already gotten past the highway Danger Zone.

[deft 7056]

[tx 3 putt 78664]

6 hours ago, Cajun said:

If you've hit Kingsville going north then you've already gotten past the highway Danger Zone.

RiP Brush Country (I think that was name) damn epic cfs and great enchiladas. Huge biscuits 

[tx 3 putt 78664]

6 hours ago, Cajun said:

If you've hit Kingsville going north then you've already gotten past the highway Danger Zone.

to be fair @Brisketexan has to sweat out that check point stop 

[Celery Man 21093]

who dares to defy the texas chili reinheitsgebot

[SydneyCarton 49475]

21 minutes ago, Celery Man said:

who dares to defy the texas chili reinheitsgebot

@Bozo_Casanova on a frequent, almost four-female-roomates-on-the-same-cycle predictability. 

Edited June 20 by SydneyCarton

[Deej 77793]

On 6/19/2024 at 8:17 AM, closetojumping said:

I went out of my way to go there in May while in town, based off of the recs from this thread. 

The restaurant itself is a hovel and obviously a roach motel. The clientele were fatties and poors, mostly wearing t-shirts, cutoffs, tank tops and flip flops. There was a line with people waiting outside who mostly stank of BO and urine. 

The chips and salsa were excellent. The enchiladas were tough but otherwise tasted fine. The margaritas were mediocre, as was the queso and service. 

It’s basically a middle of the road greasy spoon that apparently is situated near some posters’ houses who don’t get around to other texmex shops much. It would be like a Houstonian pushing Spanish Flowers or one of 50 taquerias. 

In conclusion, I wouldn’t rec or go again and I now question the foodie rundowns on this board. I’m guessing Dart Bowl and the San Antonio school district enchiladas or whatever the fuck are also overrated in memory due to boomer nostalgia. 

You sound like someone who would heckle a team about their dead bat boy. 

[Brisketexan 106873]

6 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

RiP Brush Country (I think that was name) damn epic cfs and great enchiladas. Huge biscuits 

The Brush Country Inn in Riviera.  One of the greatest losses in Texas history.  A CFS for the ages.

[Bozo_Casanova 26830]

1 hour ago, Celery Man said:

who dares to defy the texas chili reinheitsgebot

In much the same way that the original, much hated and widely ignored (and for favorites of the nobility much excepted from) reinheitsgebot was implemented by an alarmed nobility to control and appropriate the food culture of the peasantry, so too does the the unhistorical and oppressive rule of no beans implemented by Texas’ white elite of the 1950’s attempt to separate chili from its source, once again in the name of “purity.”

Beans are not required in Texas Chili but they are indeed authentic, just like the suet and tough odd and ends of mixed meats and wild game sifted and stolen from butchers bins and buzzards by a the poor women who invented it, and enjoyed by the almost-as-poor men who paid to eat it. 
 

I take great pleasure in knowing that the often plump and reddish men who insist that others not eat chili with beans are the same ones who cower from their wives in “man caves” and put the American flag spartan mask or punisher sticker on their F250 to cover the fragile being in the driver’s seat. 
Beans are not required, but they are authentic. Enjoy your wagyu ribeye and saffron stew!

 

Edited June 20 by Bozo_Casanova

[Celery Man 21093]

[Cajun 11772]

Good grief

[thunderlounge 8407]

[Texzilla588 772]

You haven’t answered my question, but sure as hell giving up evidence to my suspicions. 
 
(Olive Garden)

Any place that had a “martini menu” of cocktails just sold me a beer. But then again that’s all I drank was beer.

[dcbc 14644]

On 6/19/2024 at 12:00 PM, Brisketexan said:

You should be negged for failing to reference "the rules-based TexMex order."

Refresh my memory.  Is it when at a new TexMex place, always order the Number 1 plate?

Edited June 21 by dcbc

[hornmpa96 2655]

Trying to get this back on track. Pic is from stop at Y Mas last month.

 

[Brisketexan 106873]

And for the sake of memory, and a reminder of what’s gone:



Pour one out for the Dart Bowl.

[DalTxHornFan 3130]

25 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

And for the sake of memory, and a reminder of what’s gone:



Pour one out for the Dart Bowl.

That reminds me that I need a set of those!  Thanks!

[deft 7056]

Ctj can go fuck himself

[closetojumping 65379]

8 hours ago, deft said:

Ctj can go fuck himself

There’s a shot you’re taking things a bit too seriously. 

[Deej 77793]

8 hours ago, deft said:

 

[Hook1997 5509]

Archy’s in Cotulla is damn good if you are ever  in that area.  In town for work and it’s what the locals at the courthouse suggested.  

[hookemATL 12240]

[Texzilla588 772]

Does anyplace like this still exist?

When I was a kid and we went to eat Mexican food, a lot of places would not only give you a basket of chips with a jug of hot sauce (some places it was refrigerated, some room temp, some warmed), but a bowl of escabische pickled jalapeños, carrots, and onions. Also a bowl of butter pats to go with the hot corn tortillas on the table. If you asked they might have a green hot sauce in the back. It all came with the flagon of iced tea or Dr Pepper.

While waiting on my cheese and onion enchiladas and beef tacos or bean and beef tostadas, we’d eat a ton of the hot tortillas with butter, salt, and escabiche rolled into a delicacy. If they had flour tortillas we’d butter them and add a packet of sugar to each.

I know food costs and waste management ent have killed these practices but if one exists I might make a trip of it. Obviously the cheese ench gotta be right.

[Elvis 3437]

I was craving a perfect plate of cheese enchiladas from my favorite local spot Casa Garcias.  It's Friday night and we walk in to a hot-as-shit dining room full of people.  I look at the thermostat and it's 86 degrees.  There's no way I could enjoy my perfect plate like that.  

So we move on to Lupe Tortilla which is jamb packed on a Friday night.  I tried their Tex-Mex enghilada plate that looks like cheese enchilada plate.  It is not.  It was garbage.  It also took forever and cost a fortune.  

 

[PilotsError 2336]

la tapatia in leander doesn't believe in an a/c either.  but i eat there anyway.

[Texzilla588 772]

Lupe is only good for grilled meats. The Tex Mex just ain’t.

[dcbc 14644]

35 minutes ago, PilotsError said:

la tapatia in leander doesn't believe in an a/c either.  but i eat there anyway.

I was going to mention La Tapatia and La Mexicana in the Montrose both used to do this.

[DalTxHornFan 3130]

I went off the menu tonight and had white cheese enchiladas with mole sauce and a cup of Borracho beans at Jardin Corona in downtown Marble Falls.  Paired with a Mexican Martini (limit 2, of course!)  It was perfecto!

[irishtexan 11707]

On 6/30/2024 at 5:00 PM, Elvis said:

I was craving a perfect plate of cheese enchiladas from my favorite local spot Casa Garcias.  It's Friday night and we walk in to a hot-as-shit dining room full of people.  I look at the thermostat and it's 86 degrees.  There's no way I could enjoy my perfect plate like that.  

So we move on to Lupe Tortilla which is jamb packed on a Friday night.  I tried their Tex-Mex enghilada plate that looks like cheese enchilada plate.  It is not.  It was garbage.  It also took forever and cost a fortune.  

 

If you're talking about the location at William Cannon and Manchaca, La Posada's around the corner at William Cannon and West Gate and the food is comparable in my experience. 

[luke duke 6449]

Has anyone assembled the NEISD enchiladas and cooked them the next day? How did they turn out?

[DalTxHornFan 3130]

24 minutes ago, luke duke said:

Has anyone assembled the NEISD enchiladas and cooked them the next day? How did they turn out?

I've frozen them and cooked them weeks later with good results.  I think freezing them keeps the tortillas from turning into mush.

[luke duke 6449]

I've frozen them and cooked them weeks later with good results.  I think freezing them keeps the tortillas from turning into mush.

Do you thaw them before cooking or cook them frozen?

[DalTxHornFan 3130]

Cook them frozen -- just like most old-school Tex-Mex joints do.  That's why they always say "no substitutions!"  They make up the enchilada plates in advance, cook them in an oven and then put a blap of rice and beans on the super-hot plate before serving.

[Deej 77793]

Maudies

 

[Celery Man 21093]

I would eat the shit out of some Maudie’s right now.

[Celery Man 21093]

To be clear, I’m talking about old ladies. Also Austin white people Tex Mex.

[Steamboat1874 4319]

5 hours ago, DalTxHornFan said:

Cook them frozen -- just like most old-school Tex-Mex joints do.  That's why they always say "no substitutions!"  They make up the enchilada plates in advance, cook them in an oven and then put a blap of rice and beans on the super-hot plate before serving.

The Tex-Mex restaurant I waited tables at never did that.

The corn tortillas were pre-rolled with cheese, beef or chicken.

They were then put on a plate, covered with enchilada gravy and cheese and put in the oven.

No frozen bullshit ever.

[futureman 22691]

On 6/30/2024 at 3:00 PM, Elvis said:

So we move on to Lupe Tortilla which is jamb packed on a Friday night.  I tried their Tex-Mex enghilada plate that looks like cheese enchilada plate.  It is not.  It was garbage.  It also took forever and cost a fortune.  

On 6/30/2024 at 4:36 PM, Texzilla588 said:

Lupe is only good for grilled meats. The Tex Mex just ain’t.

garbage my ass.  you two idiots are such slapdicks.  Lupe may not be the top of the mountain but those cheese enchiladas are fine. 

Edited August 11 by futureman

[futureman 22691]

also sorry you’re poor. 

[Elvis 3437]

16 minutes ago, futureman said:

garbage my ass.  you two idiots are such slapdicks.  Lupe may not be the top of the mountain but those cheese enchiladas are fine. 

Late night enchiladas hate talk not going away. Take your meds.  

[Txslnghrns 1357]

Had to be in Wichita Falls last night. Made a stop in pioneer on maplewood.



I went rice and beans as sides instead of the coleslaw and fries.

[RMac5 1557]

You chose correctly, damn that looks good.

[deft 7056]

Enchiladas with coleslaw sounds weird AF

[Brisketexan 106873]

3 hours ago, deft said:

Enchiladas with coleslaw sounds weird AF

Perhaps you are unfamiliar with the place called "Wichita Falls."

[Texzilla58 4787]

On 9/7/2024 at 7:47 AM, Txslnghrns said:

Had to be in Wichita Falls last night. Made a stop in pioneer on maplewood.



I went rice and beans as sides instead of the coleslaw and fries.

That appears to be a Wichita Falls red draw in the background, like a knowing stamp of approval to that enchilada plate.  Awesomeness.  
 

my old man made his with Snap E Tom, and Heileman’s old style beer.  

[ztejas 44223]

On 9/8/2024 at 2:47 PM, Brisketexan said:

Perhaps you are unfamiliar with the place called "Wichita Falls."

For his sake let's hope so.

[tx 3 putt 78664]

On 9/8/2024 at 2:47 PM, Brisketexan said:

Perhaps you are unfamiliar with the place called "Wichita Falls."

 

fuck that place !!!!!

 

[baboso 6105]

On 9/7/2024 at 8:47 AM, Txslnghrns said:

Had to be in Wichita Falls last night. Made a stop in pioneer on maplewood.



I went rice and beans as sides instead of the coleslaw and fries.

Red draw!!

[Txslnghrns 1357]

That appears to be a Wichita Falls red draw in the background, like a knowing stamp of approval to that enchilada plate.  Awesomeness.  
 
my old man made his with Snap E Tom, and Heileman’s old style beer.  

There’s a few things WF is known for. The Littlest Skyscraper. Wichita Trucks. Old High Coyote football. And of course the red draw. There’s some disagreement where it actually originated but I always preferred them from Bar L. I don’t even know if that place is open anymore. But you can’t go to pioneer and get the cheese enchiladas without a red draw. Other than that, WF sucks.

[pch 1264]

6 hours ago, Txslnghrns said:

There’s a few things WF is known for. The Littlest Skyscraper. Wichita Trucks. Old High Coyote football. And of course the red draw. There’s some disagreement where it actually originated but I always preferred them from Bar L. I don’t even know if that place is open anymore. But you can’t go to pioneer and get the cheese enchiladas without a red draw. Other than that, WF sucks.

From '72-75, my college room mate (a Rider grad) went to Memorial Stadium to watch the November bloodbath between Old High and Rider.  This was preceded by a visit to the Pioneer which resulted in a double win three years in a row for food and football.  The best thing about WF when I lived in dry Nocona was that 48 mile drive to the package store to fill orders for my relatives and myself.  Other than that, WF was never worth a visit.