If you love to cook, then chances are, you’ve fantasized—at least once—about having an enormous, extensively-stocked kitchen with every tool that a chef could ever need (or want). Some dishes are difficult, frustrating, or even impossible to make without the right equipment, and many others can be improved exponentially when certain utensils enter the fray. Tex-Mex cuisine is no exception …
Some great tex-mex recipes for cinco de mayo
April is more than halfway over, and May will soon be upon us. That can only mean one thing: Cinco de Mayo! This holiday is a great opportunity to appreciate Mexican culture, whether it’s by studying history, attending music and dance recitals, viewing artwork, or—of course—eating traditional food! Many folks are content to just patronize Tex-Mex restaurants on May fifth, …
Tips for Cooking Healthy Tex-Mex Food at Home
Tex-Mex fans know how good Tex Mex tastes, but that great taste sometimes comes at the expense of our waistline. When you add all that cheese and sour cream and those refried beans and beef, that’s a big dose of foods that are anything but heart healthy. So, if you are cooking Tex Mex at home, and you want to …
Cinco de Mayo Party Tips and Food Ideas
Cinco de Mayo is just a bit more than a week away. If you’re planning on celebrating by having some friends over, read below for some ideas about what to do and what to eat during your fiesta. Consider decorating your party space with red, white and green (the colors of Mexico’s flag). String crepe paper chains in these colors …
The cheeses of Mexican food
Mattito’s Tex-Mex Restaurant offers a unique dining experience for children and adults who enjoy Mexican food or dishes. We serve a large selection of delicious cuisine for breakfast, lunch, and dinner with a variety of Mexican cheeses. Tex-Mex entrees are Mexican cuisine made with United States food products whereas Mexican dishes are authentic dishes made with Mexican ingredients. Our decades-old …
Much Ado About Mole
The last time you enjoyed our delicious Pollo Con Mole, you might have wondered-Where does delicious and dark mole sauce come from? What’s it made out of? Called “The National Sauce of Mexico”, mole is a generic name for a family of sauces used in Mexican food. The word mole comes from the Nahuatl word “milli” which means sauce or …
The Scoop on Salsa
Have you ever eaten so many chips and salsa at Mattito’s that you weren’t able to finish your food when it came? Don’t lie. We’ve all been guilty of that at some point. That may be one of the reasons that for the last 14 years, salsa sales have actually surpassed ketchup sales, just like tortilla sales have surpassed bread …
How to Make Flour Tortillas from Scratch
Here’s a fun fact: did you know that in 2008, tortilla sales actually surpassed bread sales for the first time ever? Because of tortilla’s vast popularity, September has been declared ‘National Tortilla Month’! We all know that there are as many variations on tortillas as there are on sliced bread. At Mattito’s, we see many of our guests enjoy them …