Everyone on here should know by now that I love Mexican food – especially when it crosses over into a Tex-Mex-BBQ scenario. I’m talking pulled pork tacos, I’m talking spice and southwest flavors. I’m talking regrettable levels of heat. I’m talking about chili powder, paprika, adobo, cumin, jalapeños, cheese, tortillas, meat, etc…

I really like making tacos out of left over BBQ, it just seems right – Corn tortillas are better for you than huge rolls in the grand scheme of things. Today I was in the mood for tacos, mainly because I saw an ad for Aldi that featured one of those 4-up taco holders – something I’ve been meaning to get for a while! They are basically bent metal sheeting and I should be ashamed that I don’t have the means to make one of them myself, but that’s not the point.

As I dropped my corn tortilla into the small frying pan I use to fry my corn tortillas, I made a split second decision to try something I never tried before. I was going to make a quesadilla, but just keep layering the tortillas until shit started feeling absurd. I had preheated pulled pork, cheese, sliced jalapenos, sauce, diced onions and pre-cut small pads of butter. You have to move quick when you do something like this –

It’s all about getting a little bit of butter on both sides of the tortilla, building a layer of ingredients, pulling the layer and the toasted tortilla off the pan with a spatula, dropping butter and another tortilla, flipping it after a few moments with your finger tips, then flipping the stuff on the spatula over on top of it. then building another layer on top of the result. That probably makes zero sense, but I really had things going well!  I topped the whole thing off with more cheese, pulled pork, and my leftover onions and jalapeños. Then I threw blue cheese on there for shits and giggles. Here’s the result:

I know, blue cheese is not a tex-mex cheese! but it adds some complexity to the dish that I don’t mind!

Look at the layers:

I did the thing where I mix a super hot hot sauce with frank’s red hot and make ‘nuclear frank’ – franks is good, but like I said – I like regrettable levels of heat.

Now for the cross section:

Like a pie folks!

you damn right I ate the whole thing.