WITH YOUR WINE Roast chicken thighs with mustard, garlic and rosemary

Like roast chicken, but dislike how long it takes? Then try roasting individual parts. Thighs are the quickest, but you can also use breasts. Just let them cook a little longer. Any of the wines mentioned here would pair well.

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Serves 4, takes about 40 minutes

8 chicken thighs

1/3 c Dijon-style mustard

1 clove garlic, minced

1/4 tsp rosemary, ground

4 Tbsp olive oil, divided salt and pepper to taste

1. Preheat oven to 450. Combine mustard, garlic, rosemary and 3 Tbsp olive oil in a small bowl.

2. Salt and pepper the thighs. In an ovensafe pan large enough to hold all the chicken, sauté the thighs, starting skin side down, in 1 Tbsp olive oil for about 3 1/2 minutes on each side, until well browned.

3. Put the thighs in the oven and cook for 10 minutes. Flip the thighs over so the skin side is down, and brush the mustard mixture on the thighs. Cook for 10 minutes, flip again, and brush the mustard on the skin side of chicken. Cook 10 or 15 minutes more until chicken is done.

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It’s 11 a.m. on a Sunday and I’m traveling from East Dallas home to Lake Highlands. I want to grab brunch tacos for the family, but where? Fuzzy’s is packed. I don’t have the energy to deal with it. On a hunch, I head toward the fringe — that area that isn’t quite East Dallas or Lake Highlands or Garland — Northwest Highway and Jupiter.

That’s where, for the first time ever, I notice Taqueria Hidalgo (it’s been there two years, by the way, according to a staffer), tucked away next to a coin laundry. It’s not crowded at all. The place is spacious with a dozen tables. Two or three of them hold customers. A Spanish news show plays on a small TV in a corner. The signage is entirely in Spanish, but there’s one thing — an important thing — that I understand: “Tacos $1”.

Thankfully, photos along the wall identify other menu items, and the young woman at the counter speaks perfect English. I order a bunch of breakfast-y tacos: tacos with varying combinations of eggs, chorizo, potatoes, cheese, rice. I add a few burritos to my order — spicy pork, steak, tongue. The shells — a mixture of soft corn and flour tortillas — were remarkably soft; generous amounts of spicy chorizo married with fluffy yellow eggs is topped with fresh veggies and lime. Green salsa drizzled on top adds adequate kick to the small but filling morsels. For $18 total, I fed four people with food to spare. The menu also included menudo, steak dinners, spicy shrimp cocktails ($6.99 small-$11 large), gorditas and Mexican subs ($5). Hidalgo also serves pretty pastel-colored fruit drinks, shakes and smoothies and something called horchata, a milk-based drink with vanilla and cinnamon that is supposedly a sweet accompaniment to spicy foods ($2).

If you need colorful candy, a glitzy rosary or a portrait of Our Lady of Guadalupe, they have you covered there too. Northwest & Jupiter 214.221.8226 —CHRISTINA

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