These stacked enchiladas with perfect fried eggs and the best homemade red enchilada sauce make for the yummiest and filling breakfast or brunch.
The phrase, “too many cooks in the kitchen,” need not apply to the Soza family, who’s motto rings, “Pásale, Pásale, vengan a comer,” (Come in, come in. Come in and eat).
Since 2010, Evangelina (Vangie) Soza and daughters Yvette Marquez-Sharpnack and Veronica Gonzalez-Smith have preserved three generations of family recipes and memories, celebrating their Mexican heritage in their well-followed blog, Muy Bueno.
I first discovered the cooking threesome when I featured Muy Bueno in the first issue of FoodieCrush magazine, where they shared their Christmas family traditions handed down from one generation and now to another. The role of family and tradition is the centerpiece of their brand, and it all started with their grandmother who they pay homage to in each word written and recipe created.
Before grandmother Jesusita Mendias-Soza’s passing, Veronica carefully studied her in the kitchen as she made her homemade flour tortillas. Now, Veronica makes them with the very rolling pin Jesusita had used—weathered and loved from decades of rolling out countless tortillas and empanadas for family and friends. Another of her rolling pins was passed down to Yvette and she too treasures the family heirloom, which serves as a fond reminder of their grandmother and her cooking.
The mother-daughter trio sought to keep Jesusita’s memory alive and her presence near by commemorating their family’s recipes so they may be passed down to their own children and to future generations. In October of 2012, their collaborative efforts expanded beyond the blogosphere and into the publishing realm, with the release of their first cookbook, Muy Bueno: Three Generations of Authentic Mexican Flavor.
The vibrantly colorful book features over 100 fresh, authentic Mexican recipes, from green enchiladas and tamales to hibiscus popsicles and pumpkin turnovers. Each recipe is labeled with a specially designed silhouette by Yvette—who also designed the logo and layout of the cookbook—to portray which of the three authors created the specific recipe.
“Being that we are three authors we wanted the reader to really get to know us by noting who the story/memory is from. We have heard lots of great feedback and people really love it,” Yvette explains.
The collection of recipes incorporates old and new, with dishes from grandma Jesusita’s kitchen (traditional northern Mexico cuisine), Vangie’s south of the border comfort food—like the Pork in Red Chile—and creative Latin-fusion from Veronica, whose favorites include Green Enchiladas and Tres Leches, and Yvette’s remake of Mango Upside Down Cake.
And although geography keeps them apart more often than they’d like—Yvette lives in Colorado, Veronica in Germany and Vangie in Texas—it is not an obstacle, as the gang remains dedicated to maintaining their blog and striving to preserve tradition. Near or far, nothing brings them back to their roots or makes them happier than when they’re in the kitchen with the ones they love. Grandma Jesusita would be proud.
1. Describe your blog in 3 words:
Veronica: Heartfelt, Cultural, Delicious
Yvette: Mexican, Family, Love
Vangie: Informative, Easy, Delicious
2. If you could be one food blogger other than yourself, who would you be?
Veronica: White on Rice
Yvette: Roost Blog. Her blog, photography, design, and videos are spectacular.
3.Which 3 blogs do you follow/are obsessed with/can’t live a day without?
Veronica: Katie Pies, White on Rice, Matt Bites
Yvette: White on Rice, Roost Blog, and Matt Bites
4. What is the one kitchen tool you could never give up?
Veronica: Lime squeezer
Yvette: Rollin pin. It was one of the two rolling pins I inherited from our grandma. Veronica has the other one.
Vangie: Conical sieve to make red chile sauce
5. What dish are you obsessed with mastering that you just can’t get quite right?
Veronica: Soufflé
Vangie: Yeast bread
6. What did you have for dinner last night?
Veronica: BBQ Pork sandwiches….ooo they were good!
Yvette: Molotes stuffed with veal and pickled red onions. It was a test day in the kitchen and recipe will be on our blog soon.
7. What’s one secret talent outside of the kitchen nobody knows about you.
Veronica: LOL…not anything I can admit to here
Yvette: I’m double jointed and I can rotate my shoulders and twirl my arms around holding my hands and not letting go. It’s a fun party trick. LOL!
8. You’re happiest when cooking/eating:
Veronica: Surrounded by family and friends
Yvette: Ditto
Vangie: Baking
9. The three of you all live in different places, even countries. You recently debuted your Mexican cookbook, Muy Bueno Cookbook. What roles did the three of you take to complete the project and what challenges did you overcome with three authors in three different areas?
We all worked voraciously to complete the project and meet self-imposed continual deadlines. Our biggest challenge was waiting for edits from each other because of the eight-hour time difference. There are times that emailing wasn’t enough, lucky for us we now have SKYPE…we did a lot of skyping.
10. The one secret ingredient to your success is:
Love!!! Love for the recipes grandma and mom made for us as kids…love for our delicious cultural recipes, love for each other’s differences and accepting of those differences…love is all you need!
To give you a taste of what’s deliciousness lies within, I’m sharing their recipe for Stacked Red Enchiladas, or as I’ve remade them into Stacked Breakfast Enchiladas, a recipe my husband has deemed a new favorite. I couldn’t agree more.
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Stacked Breakfast Enchiladas
Ingredients
- 2 cups red chile sauce or enchilada sauce
- ½ cup canola oil for frying tortillas
- 12-16 white corn tortillas
- 1 cup cotija cheese
- 4 green onions , chopped
- cilantro leaves for garnish
- 4 eggs
Instructions
- Pour red chile sauce or enchilada sauce into a skillet over medium heat until warm then lower heat to simmer.
- In a non-stick skillet, heat canola oil. Drop one tortilla at a time into hot oil and fry until softened, turning once while frying, then drain on paper towels.
- To assemble the enchiladas:
- Place a fried tortilla into the skillet of warm red sauce, coating it on both sides. Place on a plate then layer with some cheese and a sprinkle of green onion. Place another tortilla on top and repeat until you have a stack of three or four tortillas. Continue to make stacks until all ingredients are used.
- Heat a small non-stick fry pan over medium heat and spray with cooking spray. Fry the eggs and place one on each stack. Add another egg if you're extra hungry. Top with more cotija, more green onion and cilantro leaves if desired.
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I make breakfast everyday for my husband and this is one of his favorites, but I put my homemade black beans with bacon on the first and 2nd layer and a soft boiled egg on top. Huge but good
I’m glad you enjoyed Charlyene!
I am said to be 100% Norwegion from the Tronheim area. Both grandparents came directly from Norway. Mu parents could not speak english when they went to school in Minnesota and were made fun of. Noting that Scandinavians usually eat rather bland foods; I always say; “I should have been born a Mexican for as much as I enjoy & seek Mexican foods” I put salsa on most everything: medium to hot depending on the food item and love to make my own. My favorite meal is ‘Pollo Mazitlan’ I always have extra carrots and mushrooms added. Our local Mexican chain restaraunt: “Azteca’ in the Seattle, WA area makes it wonderfully. Arozz con Polo is a close second. I would look forward to learning and testing many new recipes from your new book. Thank you for combining your many years of experience, generations of handed down recipes and most of all for offering to share that “love” with “want to be” Mexican cooks. Respectfully, Cindy
My favorite would be chicken fajitas!
I love enchiladas verdes topped with jalapenos!
I love to make a pot of pozole rojo with slow smoked pork.
Enchiladas verdes is my favorite! But I could eat Mexican meals seven days a week!
chicken fajitas!
I love mole enchiladas, homemade, authentic.
How about jalapeno ice cream or another flavor that’s notable but non-traditional?
My favorite is anything chicken. I love chicken enchiladas, chicken flautas, and chicken fajitas.
My favorite would be Tamales and Green Chili
My favorite would be carnitas.
Can’t get enough of the fresh Mexican flavors. Guacamole, salsa, salsa verde, carnitas, enchiladas, burritos
I don’t know what my favorite one is until I win this cookbook! haha! Actually I love enchiladas.
I just heard about your book from my niece and we carry on the same traditions ,cooking like mom. Christmas time all the nieces and cousins gather around the kitchen table and make tamales, moms way. The day before my sister and I will make the chilies for both red and green tamales, and cook the meat. The next day the fun starts when everyone arrives. Sometimes they get new aprons that I’ve made. I am happy to know that some things never go away, moms and traditions. My favorite food has always been red enchiladas. Thank You for keepings traditions alive.
Where to begin! I haven’t had a Mexican dish I’ve disliked!! Carnitas, nachos, and quesadillas to start with.
I love tortilla soup! Or enchiladas veracruz! And of course, guacamole :-)
All of it! My go to dish though is breakfast tacos. It fills my boys tummies with lots of protein which helps them focus better in school.
roasted poblano chile stuffed with braised squash and oaxacan cheese
PLEASE!
This really is my ideal breakfast!!
Chicken soft tacos with homemade salsa and lots of melted cheese. Yum!
My favorite “receta mexicana” is Pozole Verde. I made it the other day for a birthday party and it was a hit! I grew up with Pozole rojo, but I will admit that this was the best Pozole EVER!
New Mexican Green Chile Chicken enchiladas smothered in red and green chile!
I love the red chile pork enchiladas my boyfriend makes. So good!
I love anything with cilantro. My favorite mexican dishes are gorditas and chilaquiles!
My family loves sopes!
I LOVE a good veggie burrito… but equally loved are verde enchiladas.
My favorite it enchiladas! I would love to win this. It has been on my wishlist for months.
I love a good creamy chicken enchilada! Coated in a creamy white cheese sauce. So bad for you but so good!
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This looks amazing! I cant wait to try it!
I love chile rellenos the most
My favorite is chicken fajitas.
I love chicken quesadillas.
I love traditional mexican food. It is so flavorful and just plain amazing. I haven’t seen their blog before and I think i’m in love!
Chicken and Cheese Enchiladas with Green Tomatillo Salsa!
I love all things mexican! But I tend to be somewhat partial to chimichangas
I love enchiladas and tamales! But really, just SET ME LOOSE in a authentic Mexican restaurant.
Ummm…this breakfast dish may be my new fave!!
Red enchiladas. That sauce is my favorite.
I just love spinach enchiladas. I recently had some at one of my favorite local joints with spinach, chicken, red chile sauce and goats cheese. It was to die for!
I love anything Mexican but my very favorite dish is probably Chile Rellenos or authentic tacos.
I absolutely love enchiladas!
Enchiladas for breakfast that aren’t leftover from last night. Sounds and looks delicious.
Chicken mole! A mix that say Mexico!
I love enchiladas
Enchiladas are my favorite, but I love just about all mexican dishes. I can’t wait to try this one…enchiladas for breakfast! Hope I get the cookbook. I could use some New Mexican recipes in my repertoire.
I love green corn tamales!
I love any enchilada!
I love to make carnitas!! Yum! Yum!
I LOVE LOVE LOVE home made fresh flour tortillas with butter and just made pinto beans straight from the pot!
Carolyn
Nothing beats my mom’s bean and cheese enchiladas. Mmmmmm
This recipe looks delicious! My favorite Mexican dish is tacos served in romaine lettuce leaves.
I love love love mole! My father is from Puebla so his mother’s recipe was taught to my mother who is Cuban. It is absolutely perfect!
My favorite dish? Hard to decide. Either tamales or tostadas. Or a street taco. How about all three?
I love and cook all types of food being that cooking is my passion! Mexican food is so different depending what State in Mexico you are eating from, the Vera Cruz cooks use more seafood, veggies and fruits than the Northern states of Chihuahua and Sinaloa who prefer beef, goat, and poultry. My favorite mexican dish is Mole Poblano (either red or black).
Home made tamales, Rice pudding, Carne Adovada ( especially in a breakfast burrito) and Biscochitos! I also have a big crush on Fresh roasted Hatch green chili!
My favorite Mexican dish is tostadas the way my grandmother used to make them: fresh flour tortillas fried, topped with refried beans, queso, lettuce and tomatoes.
Enchiladas!
My favorite dish is seafood enchiladas with refried beans covered in the seafood sauce…YUM!
My favorite meals are Chile Rellenos con queso and Tacos de canasta con papas y chicarron prensado estillo D.F as well as tortitas d pollo con salsa verde/rojo, last but not least, nopales , chicarron y papas en salsa Verde/rojo. I cook just about everything but there’s are my couple favorites.
So hard to say just one dish… probably a go to in our home are shrimp tacos loaded with avocados, pico & heat!
Tamales
My favorite are chilaquiles!
Great post as always, I’ve never had any Mexican food that I didn’t like, It’s my favorite.
I need to try the breakfast, my mouth is watering. The book looks fabulous.
I have to pick one! I’m from Texas and moving to England…so will need this book! LOL. I would have to say that combo fajitas with shrimp, beef, and chicken is my standby. I just can’t get enough. Oh and I LOVE Tres Leches. Yum.
Please win!
I JUST LOVE ENCHILADAS, they are my all-time favorite food! Thank you so much for posting this recipe, which I immediately Pinned to “THE WHOLE ENCHILADA”. iMIl GRACIAS! ~ I must get the Muy Bueno Cookbook!! ; D
I could not pin down a favorite dish. I love all Mexican food. Although I am not Mexican, I have a friend whose mother makes everything delicious. She has tried to show me, but that doesn’t work. lol. I would love this cookbook! I made sopes from the Muy Bueno website last night for the first time. It was so easy and delicious!
Made them again! Great way to save money. Being a college students I am always looking for something cheap AND delicious. AHhhh! I hope I win! lol.
I luv green chilies – in enchiladas, sauce, casseroles any way!
I love making Posole. A chicken version so my husband will eat it. What started as a Christmas dinner tradition is on weekly rotation during the winter. Cookbook looks amazing!!!
I love Ceviche!
Tamales. Kind of a pain in the butt to make but oh so good.
I love chicken tortilla soup! thanks for the chance to win!
My husband and I can’t get enough of chilaquiles for breakfast! We make them almost every weekend, with variations each time. Looks like this cookbook would have some pretty amazing recipes in it, definitely on my wishlist!
These enchiladas look so good! I love fish tacos.
I love any Mexican food that I’ve ever had :)
This book is gorgeous! And the enchiladas look amazing! Can’t wait to try this recipe!
I love a Mexican shrimp cocktail…….
My favorite dish would be cheese and jalapeno stuffed tamales!
I love molletes! This looks like a phenomenal cookbook. It’s going on my wish list for sure, but I’d love to win a copy!
Wow, these ladies are amazing! Successfully spent the last hour of my time searching through their blog – new inspiration for a month full of food coming up!
My favorite dish is mole enchiladas – well anything mole for that matter :)
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Well considering I just ate chips, guac, salsa and queso FOR BREAKFAST, I think I need this book.
I love hearing about families cooking traditions. This cookbook sounds amazing! And can I say that enchilada sauce has been on my brain since I saw the Instagram picture you teased me with!!! It is so hard to pick a favorite Mexican dish…. I love carnitas. I love good tostada piled high with beans, avocado, cheese, and salsa. I kina haven’t found a Mexican dish I didn’t like!
My favourite Mexican dish that I think I could eat at any time of the day is Huevos Rancheros. I hope I win so I can keep exploring Mexican food!
Love this! I feel like I know this family already. Can’t wait to get hold of this cookbook. It sounds so heartwarming. Thanks for featuring them.
sopes!
You can see the special ingredient in their eyes! You can tell they all cook with love and passion! Can’ wait to try this one on my family.
Chile Rellenos hands down favorite!!
Thanks for this beautiful post. Love
Mexican culture, food, color and everything about it!!
Enchiladas and this recipe looks amazing !!
Huevos Rancheros! Or any other egg dish. EGGS! This cookbook looks outstanding! Thanks ladies, for the chance to win.
Any kind of quesadilla.
I love enchiladas but there’s almost no Mexican food that I’m not crazy about! I’m dying to learn how to make sopes. Thank you!
Quesadillas – meat, bean, or cheese!
I already have a copy, so don’t enter me, but I just have to say how much I really do love this cookbook. I’m a Mexican food addict, and this cookbook is taking a front seat in my kitchen!
My favorite Mexican dish is Chicken and Cheese burritos!
Sorry that’s not a Mexican burrito. It has to be of carne asada, alpastor, or carnitas but not chicken and cheese or bean and cheese.
This recipe looks amazing!
My favorite dish is machaca, but it can be hard to find!
My favorite Mexican dish would have to be chilaquiles!
My e-mail is [email protected]
My favourite would have to be carnitas…or enchiladas.
This recipe looks so delicious, hopefully I win the book.
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My favorite Mexican recipe is a corn tortilla and fried egg covered in homemade green chile made with New Mexico grown and roasted chiles. YUM!