"It's all about the recipe!"
Agua de Jamaica is my drink of choice with Mexican food. The taste varies a bit from taqueria to taqueria and restaurant to restaurant, usually based on the ratio of the Jamaica concentrate to water and the amount of sugar…
This is one of my family’s favorite BBQ meals—marinated and grilled tri-tip, on a toasted bun, with fresh tomato relish–yum! I’ve been making these for at least a decade, and the bits and pieces of this recipe came from so…
I think we’ve pretty well established that pasta can be an easy, quick, flexible and satisfying meal, right? Well, ever had one with 3T tequila? No? Well, here you go! With freshly made pesto, too! And you should be able…
I’ve always wanted to know how to make molé, but not having 27 spices, 27 days, and 27 helpers I was very glad to find this mock molé! I knew when taste-testing whilst cooking that I had a winner on…
I definitely need a better picture. Looking for something new for lunch? I have the perfect thing! This lunch has to be baked, so it’s a great fall-winter recipe. I found it at Simply Recipes awhile back—picture cred to Simply Recipes,…
Yes! You can bake taquitos! Who knew? My kids loved taquitos when they were growing up. They were always happy when there was a box of them in the freezer. I wish I knew then what I know now. I could have made batches of…
Finally, a new rice side-dish; one that both looks good on the plate and is deliciously, delicately flavored. Odd, that you cook the rice in pureed spinach, poblano peppers, cilantro and milk, but it works! Don’t let the name-or the method-scare…
Mmmm, must have been the thought of Cinco de Mayo, but I’ve finally found a great green sauce for enchiladas! Not spicy—though it would be easy to up the heat—but tasty and tangy, which it should be, having being made…
I was there when fish tacos migrated across the border from Baja California to San Diego, California—I know what a fish taco should be. And it doesn’t have mango salsa! No salsa at all, in fact. And, never, ever, under…
Super Bowl Sunday is just over the horizon, and for years, I couldn’t care less 🙂 Yet somehow or another, I managed to raise a football crazy girl who actually anticipates and watches football games, playoffs and bowls! So, through…
My daughter married a Mexican man. Now she (or he) makes a pot of these “refried” beans every week. Her father-in-law claimed to not like refried beans. Said he never ate them. Eighteen months later, he’s eating these refried beans!…
I have a grandchild with ARFID, Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder. She strongly denies it. She just says she likes what she likes and she’s fine. OK, but since the age of about seven he’s had about 22 very specific…
The actual recipe includes five cookie versions, but four are much easier to make at once: make a double batch of the dough, divide it in half, then add half the quantity of ingredients for each variation to make four…
Mmmm, the flavors of Christmas! For me they are gingerbread, eggnog and peppermint 🙂 A decade or so ago, Bon Appetit magazine featured this Peppermint Bark Cookie. It’s a shortbread base that’s topped with melted chocolate, crushed candy canes, and…
This bundt cake is moist, pumpkin rich, studded with 2 cups of dried fruit and nuts, with a splash o’ rum, a hearty heap o’ cinnamon and topped with an orange-cinnamon glaze—what’s not to like?! I’ve been making this cake…
It’s hard to explain how easy these are to make, but I might start off by saying that they are not entirely made from scratch—I use puff pastry from the freezer section of my grocery store 😀 If you can…
