My family loves Mary's frozen diced hash brown based meals, and it's been a while since we had one. It's a real stretch of the imagination to call this any kind of Mexican food, but it is tasty and each family member can choose how spicy they want their own dish of it to be.
Potatoes Mexicali
Servings: 6
Preparation time: 5 minutes
Cooking time: 30 minutes
6 cups frozen hash brown potatoes
2 2/3 cup water
1 tablespoon canned chilies
1 tablespoon soy sauce
1 teaspoon chili powder
1 teaspon ground cumin
1 teaspoon dried oregano
1 teaspoon parsley flakes
Place all ingredients in a medium saucepan, bring to a boil, and cook uncovered for 25 minutes, until the potatoes are tender and the liquid has evaporated. The potatoes will be very mushy.
Serve with salsa and chopped green onions, stuffed in a pita bread or rolled up in a tortilla shell.
The McDougall Program for A Healthy Heart
John McDougall, M.D. and Mary McDougall
(1996), ISBN: 0-452-27266-1
page 346
We had enough for 6 tortillas with about a half-cup left over, which hubby ate on a plate. I rounded the meal off with some baby carrots and a big pile of paper napkins. As usual, hubby used hot salsa and poured a liberal amount of sriracha sauce on his and I used the mildest salsa I could find.
So sloppy! We're not tortilla or burrito people, and the second we picked these up the filling starting falling right out of it until more was on the plate than in the tortilla. It tasted just as great either way.
Our son took one look at it, grimaced, then went and made himself a box of Road's End mac & chreese. I now buy these by the case from Amazon. He uses rice or almond milk and skips any instructions to add margarine to it. It may not be a "plant perfect" or even "plant strong" food, but it's still better than the store brand mac & (gooey dairy and high fat) cheese he used to eat. Almost 30 and he still eats like a little kid.
He does not like sloppy food, even as a toddler and throughout his childhood and now young adulthood. This kid wouldn't even eat pizza until he was shamed into it in college, then he became addicted to it. He would never attempt anything as sloppy as this meal was, even after I suggested he just eat it from a bowl. Oh well, his loss is our gain.
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