Texas

• Breakfast Tacos on Flour Tortillas

  Flour tortillas rolled thin, cooked dry in a hot skillet, and filled from the same pan with potatoes, chorizo and soft eggs — the argument is the tortilla, and the tortilla is northern.

  Total

  1 hr 25 min

  Serves

  4

  Calories

  735 per serving

• Tex-Mex Cheese Enchiladas with Chili Gravy

  Corn tortillas rolled around grated cheese and raw onion under a gravy that starts as a roux: fat and flour cooked together, chili powder bloomed in the fat, beef stock whisked in after.

  Total

  1 hr 10 min

  Serves

  6

  Calories

  530 per serving

• Central Texas Brisket over Post Oak

  A whole packer brisket, salt and coarse black pepper and nothing else, cooked over post oak the way the Central Texas meat markets cooked what they could not sell raw.

  Total

  9 hr

  Serves

  12

  Calories

  505 per serving

• Texas Chili con Carne, No Beans

  Beef chuck cut into cubes by hand and simmered in a sauce squeezed out of whole dried chiles, built from the recipe the army printed in 1896: no beans, no tomato, no powder.

  Total

  3 hr

  Serves

  6

  Calories

  585 per serving

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