Posts Tagged ‘Veracruz. Zarela’s Veracruz’

The African Face of Veracruz

The African Face of Veracruz

  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

Salsa Verde con Aguacate

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)

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