Chipotle?

Had lunch at Chipotle today, Sam's choice.  The flavors we are achieving at home are so much better, but I knew that going in.  At the start we agreed to making Mexican for dinners only, but all of our leftovers are...Mexican, and I, for years have eaten burritos for my 4th meal after work.  Jill has been cooking some chorizo with eggs in the morning(s), and what did we choose for our lunch today?  burritos and tacos.  This "challenge" that we created for ourselves, so far, is not challenging.

Really, what we are cooking and eating is pretty domesticated.  We have mostly used Rick Bayless's book, which uses traditional ingredients and methods, but doesn't call for much lard.  Diana Kennedy's, and the recipes in the other books we have often use lard, which we would like to avoid.  I say that what we are doing is domesticated, but, Mexican food is such a integral part of our lives, that maybe I'm taking for granted aspects of what we are cooking.

homemade tortillas every day
buying and using entire bags of various dried chiles, again and again
roasting tomatoes and fresh chiles under the broiler
we usually have 2 or 3 different homemade salsas and/or sauces in the fridge
queso fresco crumbled on everything
homemade chorizo
I'm too much of a beer geek to get into it, but we have Tecate in the house...bland watery Mexican lager

more later, Sanford