"It's all about the recipe!"
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…
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…
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…
Look what I made for my grandson’s Pups and Trucks birthday party, cheddar dog bone crackers! Aren’t they adorable? I think the two-year-olds, and their parents, are really going to enjoy them 🙂 I used a small cookie cutter to cut the bone…
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…
