Texas and Tex-Mex recipes

Colorado red chile sauce is a basic Mexican red chile sauce, used with enchiladas or similar Mexican dishes. The sauce is basically made with pureed, re-hydrated, red chiles and a garlic puree. This recipe will make 8 cups of red chile sauce. You can use as much of he sauce as you need and keep the remaining in the refrigerator for 1 to 2 weeks.
 

Traditional Texas style beef chili made with chili peppers, spices, herbs, coffee, beer and Mexican chocolate. This delicious beef chili can be served with flour tortillas, cheddar cheese, onion slices and sour cream.
 

Crispy taco shells filled with a spicy ground beef mixture and topped with shredded cheese, lettuce, tomatoes and salsa. A simple Mexican favorite dish that is easy to make. The beef mixture can be made ahead and preheated just before serving.
 

Soft flour tortillas topped with melted cheese and scrambled eggs with onion, tomato and jalapenos, great for breakfast or brunch.
 

A recipe for Texas style beef chili that can be ready in 1 hour. Coarsely ground beef is first browned, then cooked in a chili paste together with Mexican spices and beer.
 

An easy cheese dip ready in a couple of minutes, great with tortilla chips and beer.
 

An easy Mexican green sauce made with tomatoes, avocado, jalapeno garlic and sour cream. This sauce can be used as a dip for tortilla chips for a great appetizer.
 

Easy homemade flour tortillas made using ingredients that can be found at home any time. You can increase the amount of ingredients to make more tortillas; the quantities in this recipe are eough to make 8 tortillas.
 

Texas style barbecue beans, very similar to the Yard House restaurant recipe.
 

Kolaches is a type of pastry filled with different types of filling (sweet or savory), very popular in Texas. Originally, kolaches was a Czech sweet but it soon became popular in Southern Texas in sweet and savory versions.