Essential Cooking Tools for Making Tex-Mex at Home

Posted in Tex Mex Recipes

hot fajitas pan

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

Posted in Tex Mex Recipes

chorizo

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, …

Cinco de Mayo Party Tips and Food Ideas

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tequila shot

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

Posted in Mexican Food Recipes

nachos

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 …

How to Make Flour Tortillas from Scratch

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tacos

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 …