Ah I see. Nah, all good. Just give it an adjustment period if ever you’ll change profile pics lol
Tuna is like the chicken of the sea.
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Really? But caned tuna (at least in my country) is already cooked and crumbly, bathing in a saline or oily solution. So the chicken is cooked?
Yup. Cooked, in water. Literally the same as tuna - I wasn’t exaggerating. Crack it open, eat flaky, cooked chicken. Mmmmmm…protein.
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Alright then yeah it makes more sense than having raw chicken floating in water ahahah
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It’s awesome. Stupid quick lean protein.
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Sure, it’s just a little extra milk and chilies (and onion). Chilies and onions being the fundamental staple of the New Mexico diet.
Another flame-free recipe I like is to heat up left-over rice (best if Spanish rice), stick some black beans on it (with chilies and onions) and put a couple of fried eggs on it.
I’ve never seen anyone eat rice and eggs like that outside of central Mexico and New Mexico. Not even West Texas.
Wonder if anyone else does this.
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This guy does, in the northeast, haha. You don’t find it in restaurants too often though.
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I only eat refrieds (I have a textural issue with beans, flame free), otherwise I’m sure I’d do it. I lived in Texas for 15 years and struggle with New England’s lack of Mexican food.
A favorite leftover rice dish for me is quickie fried rice: scramble a couple of eggs and cook them omelette style, throw the rice in along with sesame seeds, and after it’s heated up add soy sauce. So, so tasty, and maybe five minutes start to finish.
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Flame free: I can only handle about 2-3 days’ worth of a guys’ trip unless it’s a very select group of people. Outside of that the constant jockeying for scrotal superiority and shitheadedness gets old pretty quick. I’m not sure if it’s because I’m not an alpha male (and don’t really care to be), or because I actually like spending time with Mrs. Garagerocker, or what but I burnt out on my golf trip this weekend right about the 2nd day.
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I feel exactly this same way.
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Refried is perfectly acceptable way of doing this, but you make more of a mash-combo of the re-friend and the rice, then add eggs, maybe sliced avocado and pico on top.
This is literal cowboy-on-the-trail breakfast.
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OR, I can skip the eggs, throw some cilantro and lime into the rice, and add chicken or beef in along with the salsa (and ideally pico) and lots of lettuce, tomatoes, and onion. Except when I do that I literally can’t stop eating it. Like, five-six large servings and stopping is still an act of will rather than a result of feeling sated.
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Well, there are finite ingredients when you are actually on a horse doing cowboy stuff. You might have a chase truck with a couple of coolers (and thus meat), but if it is actual broken country (like if rounding up for branding), you have what a mule carries (and thus no refrigeration)
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I do some basic black beans and rice with my eggs as a replacement for bread. I’ll add a few things here and there like cumin and crushed tomato and whatnot to give it some zing.
Now that I’m thinking about it though, I think I owe @EmilyQ an apology for being critical of her use of cilantro in her favorite chicken. I was just messing around but it may have come across harshly. Especially comparing it to axe body spray. 
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I use cilantro a fair amount. I will say:
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Cilantro is used to cover the smell and taste of typically edible, but foul-smelling, meat with regularity in questionable restaurants.
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A chemical in cilantro is used in soap and body sprays. Can’t recall the chemical, but I know it’s in Irish spring because I can smell it.
That makes sense. It might just be something I’m particularly sensitive to.
Apparently some significant percentage of people agree with you, interpreting the taste as being soapy, while the rest of us interpret the taste as being an eternal springtime of joyful yumminess. Which it IS.
Haha, you might be surprised to hear that this doesn’t happen to me very often.
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You make it sound so good, as do others, so I think “Maybe this time it will be better…”.
Then I try again. This must be how those sharks on the Discovery Channel feel when they come up for a big juicy bite of baby seal and “Blech!” modeling foam!
And pinto beans.
Yep! It makes a great breakfast. Or lunch. Or dinner. But then again, I’m from central New Mexico…
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