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Best easy fish – Food and Wine Magazine
Written on 26 Feb, 2013 at 23:11 in Featured, Naturally Light Mexican Food, Recipes, Seafood, Seafood |
Today I tested my recipe named by Food and Wine Magazine as the best easy fish recipe and it is fabulous and easy. The recipe recommends that you turn the fish over using two spatulas but I used... (Continue reading)
Lenten Bread Pudding- Mema’s Capirotada
Mema’s capirotada No, this is not my mother’s recipe (she was also Mema) or mine but that of another Mema, my dear friend Elisa’s grandmother who is the reason I chose to have my grandchildren call me... (Continue reading)
Roasted Asparagus (Esparragos Asados)
Written on 21 Feb, 2013 at 14:00 in Naturally Light Mexican Food, Recipes, Salads, Vegetable & Side Dishes |
I learned to roast asparagus, instead of steaming or sauteing them, from Peggy Knickerbocker and Laurie Smith’s book Olive Oil: From Tree to Table. That is absolutely one of my favorite cookbooks and I’ve cooked practically every... (Continue reading)
Introduction – Michoacán
I am reposting this article from 2008 because someone asked or information on the state. I’ll check everything out but this is a good beginning. Traveling in Michoacán The first time I went to Michoacán I was... (Continue reading)
Red Pozole with Pork and Chicken
My dear friend, Jim Dickson came from Schenectady to see me today and I made him pozole rojo. The pozole was delicious and the company even better. My son Rodrigo, my daughter-in-law Victoria and my granddaughter... (Continue reading)
Visiting and Tasting Queretaro Mexico
All photos by Pedro Luis de Aguinaga See some more photos here. More to come For years my friends Jim Dickson and William Garcia have been raving about Querétaro and for one reason or another, I had never... (Continue reading)
Lent – La Cuaresma
Written on 6 Feb, 2013 at 16:15 in Appetizers & Little Dishes, Mexican Basics, On Zarela's Mind, Recipes, Special Days, Traditions & Culture |
Photograph: Laurie Smith In a way, Lent is like New Year’s Day –you give up things that you shouldn’t be having any way, like chocolate or drinking, usually with the hope of losing weight. But observant people do... (Continue reading)
Oaxacan Chiles and other delicacies
This past weekend I received a marvelous gift from Mike Beary, of the restaurant Zocalito in Aspen who calls himself “the only importer of rare Oaxacan chiles.” I don’t know that that is exactly true because The Chile Guy used... (Continue reading)
Grilled Octopus (Pulpo a las Brasas)
This was the octopus I made last night. It looked great but was not perfect. I must admit that my experiment of broiling the octopus instead of grilling as specified in the recipe was not a total... (Continue reading)
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