Hogchiladas

Normally, a recipe post would start with a 1500-word explanation of a recipe and its origin. I don't believe in wasting your time for SEO purposes, so here's the recipe. If you want the why, read on afterwards.

Hogchiladas

Ingredients

• One lb. Aldi microwavable pork carnitas
• 5 oz. Aldi teriyaki sauce
• 2 cups Monterrey Jack / Chihuahua cheese
• 6 taco-sized tortillas
• 5 oz. canned Mexican street corn
• 1 bunch fresh cilantro
• 5 oz. canned green chiles
• 1 whole large red onion, chopped
• 14 oz. chicken broth
• 2 tbsp. flour
• 1 cup sour cream
• French fried onions (for garnish)
• Real bacon bits
• 4 tbsp. unsalted butter

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Sautee chopped onions in butter.
3. To make sauce, combine 1 cup of sour cream, chiles, and chicken broth. Heat, stir, then add flour to thicken. Do not let boil.
4. Microwave Aldi pork; add 1/3 of the bottle of teriyaki sauce.
5. Add in 1/3 a can of street corn, onion, cilantro to meat and mix thoroughly.
6. Scoop into tortillas; add cheese to inside; roll into greased oven pan.
7. Top with sauce and additional cheese.
8. Bake 25 minutes or until cheese is toasted.
9. Top with cilantro, French-fried onions, and bacon bits.

The Why behind the Hogchiladas

Enchiladas are currently one of the few dishes I regularly cook. I typically use a very simple beef enchilada recipe - 6 ingredients (beef, taco seasoning, tortilla, cheddar cheese, canned red enchilada sauce, green chiles) and a little bit of time in the oven, and it's ready to serve. I typically don't push myself to try new recipes, but inspiration struck when I tried a taco from taco chain Torchy's Tacos. They introduced a taco of the month called "The Hogfather," and it was glorious.

I based my Hogchilada recipe on this taco - with the sweet teriyaki pork flavor contrasted with the salty bacon, onion and the white enchilada sauce. I wanted the primary flavor to be teriyaki rather than chile, and I think the recipe turned out better than I could have hoped.

This isn't home server content

I know this is outside my typical blog content about my home server, so if you're a nerd that prefers that, here's a little rundown on a cool self-hosted recipe management total called Mealie.

Mealie is a web-based recipe database that allows me to import web-based recipes, parse them, and keep the recipes for posterity. Mealie can then create meal plans and shopping lists based on the ingredients for these recipes. It's a very handy little web app. It requires setup of a database - I use postgres.

Here's a sample docker compose you can use to spin up your own instance of mealie. Make sure to change credentials where appropriate.

 mealie:
    container_name: mealie
    image: hkotel/mealie:latest
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - 80:80
    environment:
      PUID: 1000
      PGID: 1000
      TZ: America/New_York
      RECIPE_PUBLIC: 'true'
      RECIPE_SHOW_NUTRITION: 'true'
      RECIPE_SHOW_ASSETS: 'true'
      RECIPE_LANDSCAPE_VIEW: 'true'
      RECIPE_DISABLE_COMMENTS: 'false'
      RECIPE_DISABLE_AMOUNT: 'false'
      DB_ENGINE: postgres
      POSTGRES_USER: mealie
      POSTGRES_PASSWORD: mealie
      POSTGRES_SERVER: mealie
      POSTGRES_PORT: 5432
      POSTGRES_DB: mealie
    volumes:
      - /home/user/Containers/mealie/data/:/app/data
 mealie_postgres:
    container_name: mealie_postgres
    image: postgres:14
    restart: always
    environment:
      POSTGRES_PASSWORD: mealie
      POSTGRES_USER: mealie
      POSTGRES_DB: mealie
    volumes:
      - /home/user/Containers/mealie/db:/var/lib/postgresql/data

Once this blog post is published to the public internet, I am going to test Mealie's ability to scrape my own recipe and will update this post accordingly.

Update

I failed to scrape this recipe initially, but learned a ton about the weird world of recipe SEO in my next blogpost. I eventually was able to scrape this recipe successfully.