Cookbook A-Go-Go

Afore I forget, my only New Year's Resolution is this: Publish four issues of SDF this year. I've got a pretty good start on that, considering that "Crumpled Planet" is currently at the printers, and "Perfect/Ugly" is only ten pages from completion. Course, those last ten pages are stumping me like you wouldn't believe.

This time last week I was wading through foot deep snow. Now it's in the upper fifties and raining. Gotta love that utterly messed Southern Illinois weather.

So, I've got a Mexican Cookbook, and I've been trying to learn how to cook. And frankly, it's been going fairly well. I'm kinda on a 2 successes for every one failure pattern. For example, for every Chorizo or Enchilada recipe I get right, I screw up something surprisingly simple, like homemade tortillas. Welp, last night I tried to fix "Red Chile Enchiladas, Street-Style", and for some reason, the recipe turned out brutally bland. I mean, don't get me wrong, I still ate fairly well, but the recipe just turned out weak. Wonder what I did wrong? Maybe I didn't use enough dried ancho chiles....

Regardless, if at first you don't succeed, try something else. Tonight's recipe will be "Potato Chorizo Tacos with Simple Guacamole Salsa". Hope it goes okay.