{"id":822,"date":"2009-11-16T15:10:29","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T15:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/?p=822"},"modified":"2009-11-16T15:10:29","modified_gmt":"2009-11-16T15:10:29","slug":"el-monterey-taquitos-gorditas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/2009\/11\/el-monterey-taquitos-gorditas\/","title":{"rendered":"El Monterey Taquitos &#038; Gorditas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"montererytaquitos.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/food\/blog\/montererytaquitos.jpg\" width=\"270\" height=\"160\" align=left>I need to learn to look carefully at the &#8220;cooking&#8221; instructions of frozen food items I buy.  This is not the first time I buy something only to find out that it can&#8217;t be easily microwaved for serving.  For me the whole point of buying frozen food is to be able to quickly heat it up &#8211; if I have to thaw it first, or oven-bake it or deep fry it, I might as well take the extra step and prepare the food myself.<br \/>\nFortunately, most of the frozen taquitos out there just require that you microwave them for a minute or two.  Unfortunately, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elmonterey.com\/\">El Monterey<\/a> taquitos (and gorditas), which I got today at Grocery Outlet, demand that they be thawed before cooking.  I can see, perhaps, thawing the whole box if you are going to be serving them at a party &#8211; but that doesn&#8217;t work if all you want is to fix a couple of taquitos as a snack here and there.<br \/>\nThe box offers no instruction on how to cook the taquitos\/gorditas from its frozen state.  I decided to microwave two taquitos and two gorditas on high for 1 1\/2 minutes.  The result were taquitos that were very cold in places and boiling hot in others.  Still, they were quite food for being frozen processed food &#8211; nicer than the taquitos I usually get at the supermarket or Costco.  Still, the improved flavor does not make up for the inconvenience of having to thaw them first.<br \/>\nWhat I&#8217;d say is buy them if you want to serve them for a party, but skip them otherwise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I need to learn to look carefully at the &#8220;cooking&#8221; instructions of frozen food items I buy. This is not the first time I buy something only to find out that it can&#8217;t be easily microwaved for serving. For me the whole point of buying frozen food is to be able to quickly heat it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-items","category-grocery-outlet","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}