This picture features two ingredients usually associated with Afro-Mexican cooking: Peanuts in the Salsa Macha and plantain here sliced paper-thin and fried into chips called mariquitas. It’s hard to believe that I have only been back to Veracruz... (Continue reading)
Salsa Verde con Aguacate Green Sauce with Avocado (Recipe: Zarela’s Veracruz, Houghton Mifflin, 2001 The original recipe called for mashing the ingredients by hand with a mortar and pestle and mixing in the chopped avocado and the cilantro at the... (Continue reading)