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Chilaquiles in Guanajuato

Food seems to play a big part of my day in Mexico, and it is a bit fun here looking for things to eat because you don't have to break the bank to do it. Being a budget oriented sort of guy, I do try to keep my meals on the $5 or under side of the border, and sometimes that is very easy to do, especially if you are eating in the morning or between 1 and 4, when all the cheap eateries are open and offering their daily set menus (comida corrida). One of my favorite breakfast dishes, and one of the most common,  is chilaquiles. The dish basically consists of day-old tortillas or tortilla chips soaked in or doused with a either a chile verde or chile rojo sauce, served with beans and, usually, eggs, in whatever form you like them. That is usually all topped with some crema, onion and queso blanco. Always very reasonable, very tasty, and very comfort food-ish. As to why this dish would seem comfort foodish to me deserves some explanation, and in short you can blame it on my mother, who used to make it (albeit in much less fancy form) for me on occasion as a special treat on many occasions, though never for breakfast. The strange thing is that she didn't used to make the dish at all, but then one early evening when I was in 4th grade and living in Hollywood on Loma Linda, she suddenly plopped this unlikely mess onto my plate, and i loved it, loved it, loved it. (Sound like Darcy in the Keira Knighly version of Pride and Prejudice, don't I? ;) )

Anyway, my mother's recipe was quite different though. She used regular tortillas, which she would chop into triangles and then pan fry until tough, but not until crispy. To that she would add some mildly spiced tomato sauce and chopped onions. After that was sort of cooked up and the sauce absorbed by the tortillas, she would add jack cheese into the mix and let it melt in. Sometimes she'd add some kernels of corn. All very very good, though definitely a heretic recipe. Well, enough of all that. Below I provide you with examples of the chilaquiles I tried at many different restaurants in Guanajuato. Bon Provecho.












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