title: The Everything Tex-Mex Cookbook: 300 Flavorful Recipes to Spice Up Your Mealtimes!
author:  Linda Larsen 
description: Linda Larsen is the Busy Cooks Guide at About.com. She experienced her first taste of authentic Tex-Mex food as a child and fell in love with the flavor immediately. A devotee of Southwestern cuisine, she's perfected techniques and collected recipes from Texas to New Mexico, Arizona to California, and back again. She holds a degree in food science with high distinction, and she freelanced for the Pillsbury Company for thirteen years and also worked for the Malt-O-Meal company during the 1990s.
zlib_text: The classic Tex-Mex dish of Huevos Rancheros is wildly popular, but it’s also 
  a lot of work for the home cook. Or at least it was, until we spent a couple  
  of weeks in the test kitchen figuring out how to make it simpler. pa g e  1 4
  Tex-Mex Huevos 
  Rancheros
   
  Thick-Cut BBQ 
  pork Chops
   
  Smoky Bourbon 
  Chicken
   
  Watermelon-Feta Salad
  Savory Summer Side Dish
  Easy Tomato Gazpacho
  Both Creamy and Crunchy
  Tasting  Frozen  Pizzas
  Does price Matter?
   
  Grill-Roasted Peppers
  New Technique, Better Texture
   
  Lower-Fat French Silk Pie
  Still Tastes Rich and Silky
  Dakota Peach Kuchen
  Dessert, Snack, Breakfast
   
  Whole-Wheat  
  Blueberry Muffins
  good, Not Just good for You
  Iowa Loose Meat  
  Sandwiches
  ground Beef Classic
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  Drive-Thru Grocery and Liquor Store, Los Angeles, 1949
  Dear Country Cook,
  Los Angeles may be the center of the automobile universe, but our small 
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