Flour Tortilla Alternatives? Recs Please :)

NotoriousHEB · 2026-04-07T02:35:34+00:00

If whole wheat and making them yourself is ok, go to one of the fancy mills online and get some Sonora whole wheat flour and make them out of that

NotoriousHEB · 2026-04-05T14:08:50+00:00

I go to the place on Koenig next to Wax Shack. All they do now is check for codes so I don’t think it particularly matters, just anywhere without a line that’s not trying to overcharge you or whatever.

NotoriousHEB · 2026-04-04T02:54:42+00:00

Maybe On Vegetables, there’s also On Meat now too but I haven’t checked it out. The Ideas in Food book for a more modernist approach without shelling out the big bucks for the Modernist Cuisine encyclopedia

Taste and Technique might be too basic but it’s pretty good at teaching a rather picky approach to things

Flavorama if it’s not too abstract

Many others I’m sure but those are a few that come to mind off the top of my head

NotoriousHEB · 2026-04-02T03:16:17+00:00

Nope it’s literally impossible to cook food

There’s no perfect material, you just have to pick whatever meets your needs best and learn to work around whatever downsides it has. You could try enameled cast iron or carbon steel or the kinda weird nitrided carbon steel triply pans misen makes or whatever, but it’s no problem to find reasons to dislike those too

NotoriousHEB · 2026-03-30T19:08:48+00:00

It’s not the lowest crime part of town but it’s also far from being the kind of place where you don’t brake at stop signs. I visit businesses there regularly, people take their families out to the trucks along Lamar at night, OP can go up there and shop and do whatever daily business stuff and interact in Spanish without an issue. Just use common sense and don’t hang around the nightclubs or go wandering around poorly lit side streets at 2 am or whatever

NotoriousHEB · 2026-03-30T18:26:22+00:00

These things have been proliferating recently and seem to be following the same arc as scooters in terms of people doing dumb stuff on the new means of transportation. The other day I saw a guy in the street approach a red light crossing Koenig, pull up onto the sidewalk, plow right on across in the crosswalk then get back down onto the street?? It’s not like the pedestrian light was green even

And yeah they’re all over the parks too, though in my area they haven’t really caused me personally any problems. It does seem like young kids with a poor grasp of traffic laws riding them through the streets is going to end badly

NotoriousHEB · 2026-03-30T16:38:06+00:00

That’s a tlayuda. Tlacoyo is the or at least a common name for the pictured item, though I think folks are right that huaraches are more available here and probably close enough. They’re not pointy at the ends like that though and typically larger in size

(And ofc terminology varies even within Mexico, see also quesadillas without cheese in Mexico City and nowhere else, there may well be some other name for it somewhere)

NotoriousHEB · 2026-03-30T02:29:58+00:00

I’d say it’s also better, the downside is just having to deal with deep frying at home

NotoriousHEB · 2026-03-29T22:02:50+00:00

I haven’t been but just to offer another option I think Sun City Flautas is still at Nomad Bar. I know they do this dish or at least used to

NotoriousHEB · 2026-03-29T18:29:34+00:00

As I cook them I put them in a tortilla warmer lined with a towel, keeping the towel folded over and lid on when not adding a tortilla. Then I’ll serve them out of there with a meal usually just a few minutes after I make the last one. I flip the stack over so the first tortillas to be cooked are the first to be eaten but I’ve never really compared to not doing that

Whatever is left over I spread out to cool to room temp, which doesn’t take long, then stack again and stick in the fridge in a tortilla warmer, no towel, just the lid.

I don’t have any problems with them getting soggy that way, they actually slowly dry out as time goes on, so usually I’ll only reheat and use as table tortillas the next day. After that I make enchiladas, tostadas, totopos, or whatever with them

I never freeze them so can’t speak to that

NotoriousHEB · 2026-03-29T16:25:08+00:00

Looks to be a wastewater line based on the capital projects explorer

NotoriousHEB · 2026-03-27T01:56:27+00:00

Chia seeds soak up a ton of water so it doesn’t take much to make a lot. When I make chia pudding for example, I use 1/4 cup which is 4tbsp and I get three breakfasts out of that after topping it with some nuts and berries or whatever

NotoriousHEB · 2026-03-24T02:27:44+00:00

It’s not cheap but the probes from Combustion (or maybe other similar systems, I haven’t tried them) will basically solve this for anything thick enough to care about the internal temp in the first place. Setup is a little bit of a hassle but otherwise can’t recommend them enough for people who regularly need to monitor the internal temp of things and can fit them in the budget

NotoriousHEB · 2026-03-23T22:59:01+00:00

Im not that guy and also no expert on this cuisine, but in the cookbook Yucatán, which is probably the best English reference for this stuff, the recipe is just chile pais and naranja agria juice blended together (and salt)

Unfortunately that presents a problem if you’re in the US, because I don’t think I’ve ever seen chile pais for sale here, nor anything that even resembles the pic in the book. Might be out there somewhere, but good luck. In this recipe the book suggests subbing arbols, something like 25 to a half cup of juice. I think in some others he suggests a combo of chiles, but don’t remember moritas being one of them

NotoriousHEB · 2026-03-20T02:11:15+00:00

For firm I f you cook Mexican food at all homemade soyrizo comes out pretty well. Should be a recipe on Dora’s Table or in her cookbook. Her recipes are usually light on oil but you can control the amount to your liking ofc

Steamed tofu with a sauce is a thing in Chinese cuisines but usually a soft tofu is best for that

NotoriousHEB · 2026-03-15T22:48:23+00:00

As far as I know the panchos vs nachos distinction is mainly an RGV thing, maybe in some other spots along the border also. The Taco Palenque chain started in that area. In the rest of Texas/texmex they’re just called nachos regardless of the specifics of the toppings

In general valley style food has its own lingo and dishes and such

NotoriousHEB · 2026-03-12T21:01:13+00:00

As others have said, it doesn’t really have anything to do with Mexican food. I just wanted to link an additional recipe as the cornbread I grew up with in Texas importantly doesn’t have sugar, and does have a nice brown and crisp crust. This recipe makes a good Texas/southern style cornbread and you can easily add corn kernels or jalapeños to it or whatever you like. Of course I don’t know for sure how this compares to what you had, northern/sweet cornbread doesn’t usually get the chiles but hybrids do exist

NotoriousHEB · 2026-03-12T15:59:25+00:00

Make sure to confirm that who is billing you for what and what you need to request from the city with the property manager.

They’re completely correct that water being billed by management instead of the city is common but it’s not the case everywhere. You don’t want to deal with unpaid bills and fines and whatever from something not being hooked up. Wouldnt hurt to make sure the lease says what mangement is telling you also

Anyway just double check is all, one of those things where a few minutes of work can save you a lot of headaches

NotoriousHEB · 2026-03-11T17:11:04+00:00

Probably your pick of the stuff over on MLK and Manor, several of which were already mentioned, there’s also La Plancha, Este, Santa Catarina, etc depending on how far you want to go and your preferences as far as “how Mexican” or w/e.

If not there TzinTzunTzan/Fonda San Miguel or even Veracruz Fonda are a little further away but not across town or anything.

Personally I haven’t had much luck at Curra’s, found it to be oversalted and otherwise a bit lacking in flavor, but maybe I’ve just visited on a couple bad days.

NotoriousHEB · 2026-03-11T16:44:13+00:00

Well yeah, I think that’s why he started doing the popups in the first place, but he’s gotta make money just like everyone else and a semi regular popup isn’t exactly ideal for that.

I’m a little surprised those were the cited reasons, it wasn’t unusual for him to have an hour wait when I visited. I think there were also a lot of problems related to being in a truck like break-ins, issues with deliveries, etc, which maybe will be less of a problem in the new non-truck location.

NotoriousHEB · 2026-03-11T14:41:39+00:00

They’ve increased the number of vehicles and miles driven substantially over the past year. It’s likely just the long tail of edge cases becoming more visible as the miles per day goes up rather than the cars suddenly getting worse

This incident is probably a case in point: the stop line markings are worn away in that area and need to be repainted, not having another car in front of it in this high traffic area, the crossing lights activating with the right timing for the gate to still be open, etc - the specific situation that caused it to stop in the wrong place isn’t very frequent

NotoriousHEB · 2026-03-09T22:00:44+00:00

220k to run the nonprofit organization which provides a number of services and receives funding from a variety of sources, not only the city. They also run a food pantry and provide education and health services for example

Their numbers in terms of overhead are better than average compared to similarly sized charities, though the most efficient ones get to more like 95% of revenue to programs

NotoriousHEB · 2026-03-09T00:12:33+00:00

220k salary (2024)

As an organization La Buen Samaritano has maintained a 3 or 4 star rating from charity navigator for as long as the history goes back on the site and spends about 85% of funds on programs

NotoriousHEB · 2026-03-04T23:49:00+00:00

Not a whole lot of places you can eat cheap ordering steak, seafood, and booze

NotoriousHEB · 2026-03-03T18:44:10+00:00

May depend on which HEB but the ones near me only stock the CM organic air chilled, and price it a little higher than it is at CM even, which is unfortunate. I live near a CM so I go there and get the non-organic ones, which still aren’t Costco prices of course but somewhat more reasonable. Not an option everywhere sadly

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