Title: Fajitas (Kathy)
Categories: Mexican Pitts Beef
Yield: 1 Servings

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Fajitas are properly made with skirt steak. This is a cut o

2. Fajitas are NOT properly made with chicken, shrimp, shark, or whatever other yuppie meats the restaurant chooses to toss on the grill. If you must use these ingredients, please call the dish something else -- Mexican stir-fry, maybe? This is, to quote Jeff Smith "Peasant food, raised to glory..." and should not be adulterated by the addition of wierd ingredients.

3. Fajitas should properly be grilled outdoors, and accompanied by grilled onions and peppers (preferably poblanos, but bell peppers may be substituted). Accompaniments are a good bowl of beans, some homemade salsa, lime wedges, not much else. Fresh, homemade tortillas are essential, as are copious quantities of cervesa.

In short, this is the food of honest folks who worked hard, and ate well, using the ingredients they had at hand (usually the meat that the rich people wouldn't touch), and it's perfectly wonderful eating all by itself ~- without the addition of sour cream, goat cheese, sun-dried tomatoes, etc.

Kathy in Bryan, TX

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