On May 8, 9:50*am, sf > wrote:
> On Thu, 7 May 2009 22:18:22 -0700 (PDT), Bobo Bonobo®
>
> > wrote:
> >But I don't want to merely dilute them. *I want them to be good enough
> >to eat totally alone.
>
> I like them plain with a little cheese on top, run under the broiler.
> If I get fancy, I'll add some prepackaged chili powder (like
> Grandma's).

My original post claimed that straight out of the can they are
definitely not good enough to enjoy that way (I like them like that
too). The repeated cookings really make a difference. My favorite
bean thing is Del Taco's beans with cheese with liberal amounts of
their green chile on them, whether in a burrito or not. If I lived in
NM, I could get a green burrito with even better green chile, but Del
Taco's is close.

It's hard to improve upon a Del Taco green burrito. Flour tortilla,
beans cooked from dry beans in store, cheddar grated from huge blocks
in store and green chile that bears a very close resemblance to what
you'd get at a good restaurant in Santa Fe.
Now, I'm not complimenting their food across the board. The ground
beef tacos are, well, ground beef tacos. Their burgers are awful, and
the fries are worse. The "guacamole" that they squirt out of a
caulking gun is the same inedible crap that other fast food Amerimex
joints serve. The "Secret Sauce," well I can't say for sure, as I
*never* put anything by that name into my mouth. Both the marinated
steak and chicken are passable. The Del Scorcho packets are pretty
good for what they are, better than Taco Bell, Taco Bueno or Taco
Mayo's. I never notice bad looking lettuce.
On rare occasions they do undercook the beans, and I've even gotten
beans that were a bit scorched, though that was several years ago, and
I eat there a hundred times a year. Other than the green burrito,
extra green, the item I recommend is the chicken soft taco, with no
secret sauce and with lots of green sauce.
>
--Bryan
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