"jay" > wrote in message
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> On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 11:59:14 GMT, Jerome Ranch wrote:
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>> The only Huevos Rancheros I've seen is with refried beans, not chili
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>> Jerry
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>>>Yup, it's called huevos rancheros.
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> Huevos rancheros is not eggs and "chili". If by chili you mean chili con
> carne. It is typically eggs with a tomato based chili pepper sauce
> (salsa).

Not trying to start a flame war but your definitions are confusing. The
term Chili con carne is redundant. Chili as spelled is generally
considered an Norteno ( North American, a Yanque) stew of dubious origin
and it could be your definition of tomato and chili (sic) or a straight
Chile sauce based recipe such as a Texas or Terlingua Bowl of Red but most
often Chili is associated with some type of meat with Chile peppers such as
a Chile ( an enchilada style pepper sauce) with(con) meat (carne),
chilli is generally considered an Asian pepper sauce and the spelling chile
is known to be the pepper ( green or red) made into a sauce( salsa) . For
culinary purposes, note the spelling of each; chile, chili and chilli .
Each means something different to somebody here. These are most often
misunderstood and hotly debated, but they need to be definitively defined
for culinary purposes.

I have had traditional fried eggs and red chile sauce on tortillas, as well
as several varieties of a Chili con Carne( even with beans ) and scrambled
eggs in what we in the West Texas Oilfields called a Cowboy breakfast. I
have even had green chile salsa and eggs rolled in a tortilla long ( 20
years?) before Taco time or Taco Bell marketed one.

An appreciation of the chile pepper does not have to mean the American
fanaticism of stupid extremism. There are over 400 varieties of chile and
each has more or less a distinct flavor and culinary contribution to taste.
There is some idiotic thinking ( scrambled brains maybe) out there in
terms of taste and chile flavor