Pollo Borracho (Drunken Chicken)

My dad loved mexican dishes!  My grandma would make this one for him.  YUM! 

Pollo Borracho (Drunken Chicken)

Yields: 4 Servings

Ingredients

3 tablespoons Corn oil (olive oil would work fine as well)
1 Chicken whole, quartered/disjointed
1 1/2 teaspoons Red chile powder
Salt to taste
1/2 pound Chorizo
1 medium Onion finely chopped
2 cloves Garlic minced
1/2 cup Orange juice fresh
1/3 cup Gold Tequila
2 tablespoons Capers

  Instructions
Heat oil in a heavy-bottomed frying pan and brown chicken pieces in it with chile powder; salt lightly and transfer to a casserole dish. Cook sausage with onions and garlic, in the same frying pan, until sausage is cooked through. Distribute over chicken pieces. Mix together orange juice and tequila and pour over chicken, then sprinkle with capers. Cover tightly and bake in preheated oven at 350° for one hour or until chicken is very tender. Serve with Rice. 

How about some coffee to get us started

My Grandfather was Irish (hence my flaming red hair).  Boy he was put through the ringer with my Grandmothers Italian brothers!   They made quite the pair though.  Eventually the family cam around and grew to love him as much as she did.  :)  

Here is an Irish Coffee for Grandpa.  Notes on top show it came from Vera in 1973 from a trip they took to Reno.

Irish Coffee

Vera - Reno 1973
Yields: 1 Servings

Ingredients

1 ounce Irish Wiskey
1 teaspoon Sugar
5 ounces Coffee strong, black
Heavy cream

  Instructions
Coffee - Strong as a friendly Hand
Whiskey - Smooth as the wit of our Land
Sugar - Sweet as the tongue of a Rogue
Cream - Rich as an Irish Brogue

Into a 6 or 8 oz glass gobblet, pour one ounce of Irish Whiskey. Stir in one teaspoon sugar. Leaving spoon in the glass, add strong black coffee to within about an inch of the rim. Stir well. Beat cold heavy cream with a wire whisk until aerated but not whipped. Hold warm spoon upside down over the glass and slowly pour the cream over the back of the spoon until it fills the glass up to the rim. Do not stir after adding cream, as the unique flavor is obtained by drinking the whiskey and hot coffee through the cold cream.