sopapillas

My goodness, I am just shocked that no one posting knows this, but the easier way to make sopapillas is with the same thing Pancho's actually uses (though I imagine not as individual packets).

Sopapillas with a side of honey | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2007

We went to a family run mexican restaurant here and I was over the moon when I saw sopapillas on the menu, but when they brought them out, I was crushed, their 'sopapillas' were just flat triangles of pie crust with cinnamon and sugar on them ... they didn't even have any honey.

Sopapillas with a side of honey | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2007

The best I can do these days is a sopapillas with honey, and even that hardly ever.

Heat Wave : Bev Vincent 2009

Jade -- Pancho's is definitely why I love sopapillas

With beans comes rice | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2008

I personally thought the only redeeming value of Panchos was the sopapillas.

With beans comes rice | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2008

I can't wait to try this and your many other recipes (particularly the sopapillas, which bring me back to my childhood like no other food on the planet).

Carnitas, Houston style | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2008

Thank you, thank you - now can I please have a sopapillas recipe?

A more natural chile con queso | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2008

When I was little, sopapillas meant special occasions.

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In the years since, I didn't see Monica often, but when we did get together the focus was food: stopping for roadside barbacoa in central Mexico; taking me directly from the Austin airport to Kreuz Market so I could consume a pile of welcome-home bbq brisket; and gorging on a late-night meal of big-as-your-head cinnamon buns served alongside green chili sopapillas at The Frontier in Albuquerque.

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With a farmhouse filled with pies, however, I just sadly assumed sopapillas were not an option on this outing.

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