Cheat Codes: How to Make Homemade Chipotle Ranch
Chipotle ranch is a great condiment. It’s delicious as spread on sandwiches, in burritos, and even as a dipping sauce (especially for onion rings). Yet despite its rising popularity over the past few years, it can sometimes be annoyingly difficult to find chipotle ranch in stores. And then even when you find it, it can sometimes be stupidly expensive. So what are those of us on a budget supposed to do when we crave that smoky, tangy goodness? Make our own of course!
Mix these together…
…and you get magic.
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Cheat Codes: Tips For Reheating Rice
Rice is a big staple in many cultures’ diets. Pretty much everyone outside of Europe has been dumping rice on the sides of their plates since basically forever. And in modern day, everyone eats rice. That’s right, everyone. Even gluten-free people. With good reason too! Rice is a really effective side-dish, is easy to prepare, and unless you’ve got blood-sugar disorders it’s pretty innocuous in your diet. Interesting fact I learned a couple years ago, all you Italians out there, know how your mother/grandmother would whip up a pot of sauce on Sunday, then you’d just use that sauce all week for different dishes? Many Asian families have done the same thing in a similar manner using a pot of rice. Call me a traitor, but I forgo the pot of sauce, and instead use the weekly rice batch for my own meals ranging from burritos to curries. Rice is great and versatile, but actually come to think of it, there’s a lot of people who aren’t really sure how to heat it up correctly.
Quick Recipe: Chipotle Butter
Every time I make a recipe that calls for chipotle peppers in adobo sauce I always have a bunch leftover, since I usually only use one or two at a time. This time instead of just immediately handing the rest to Erik to use in some flames-shooting-out-of-your-mouth dish for him to make for himself I decided to be thrifty and figure out some other things I could use them in.
One of the things I came up with was a chipotle compound butter. This butter will be good on anything you’d use regular butter on that you want to give a bit of kick to.
Chipotle butter is really good on a bagel.
Food 101: Compound Butter
Compound butter may sound kind of weird and scary. It sounds like some kind of chemically scientific thing that’s probably really fake and bad for you. But really it’s just butter that has stuff added into it to give additional flavor. You could just as easily call it “flavored butter” but for some reason compound butter was the name it was given, so that’s what we call it.
You may have seen the Land O’ Lakes Sauté Express butters in the grocery store. These are essentially compound butters. They’re also pretty pricey, and you know how we feel about things that are too pricey here at Poor Couple’s Food Guide. Luckily making your own compound butter at home is ridiculously easy. It’s cheaper, and you can make any flavor you want.
We Can Do It Better: How To Make A Homemade Gordita
Fans of the blog know that we now have a long-running series of posts that explain how to make different Taco Bell menu items at home, for cheaper, and healthier, all of which taste the same or better. We’ve covered the quesarito, burritos, chicken flatbreads, and even the quesalupa which hasn’t been released outside of Ohio yet! Well, let’s continue that tradition with another favorite, the gordita.
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