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Cooking with Salsa – Three Recipes
Written on 3 Mar, 2014 at 10:00 in Appetizers & Little Dishes, Cooking & Other Sauces, Featured, Ingredients, Mexican Basics, Recipes, Seafood |
If you have ever been to one of my cooking classes, you know that I like to work with building blocks. In other words, I take a basic recipe , such as salsa or pico de gallo, and use it... (Continue reading)
Superbowl Super Dishes
Written on 28 Jan, 2014 at 17:37 in Appetizers & Little Dishes, Cooking, Meats, Recipes, Soups, Vegetable & Side Dishes |
I’ve read and heard that guacamole is now the most popular Super Bowl dish and you can learn to make it by watching my video, but I am sure that’s only because they haven’t tasted my queso fundido with home-made... (Continue reading)
Roast Pork Sandwiches Jalisco-style (Tortas Ahogadas)
“Tortas” are not only “cakes” or things in the shape of round cakes, but sandwiches. These wonderful open-faced sandwiches are traditional in Jalisco state. I have not seen them elsewhere. I became addicted to them after I persuaded my parents... (Continue reading)
Mexican Cooking with Flowers: Rising Chef Lesterloon Sanchez
Written on 3 Dec, 2013 at 14:07 in Appetizers & Little Dishes, Articles, Recipes, Salads, Seafood, Vegetable & Side Dishes |
Photos by Carlos Baizabal At age 22, Veracruzan chef, Lesterloon Sanchez already commands respect. Some of it has to do with his height (1.84 meters, 6’4″) and his purposeful quiet manner but there’s fire in his green eyes burning for... (Continue reading)
Sea Bass Ceviche with Tangerine and Mango by Lesterloon Sanchez
Written on 3 Dec, 2013 at 0:58 in Appetizers, Appetizers & Little Dishes, Naturally Light Mexican Food, Recipes, Seafood, Seafood |
I must confess that I am not partial to ceviches made with fruit and any other juice except lime juice but Lesterloon made a believer out of me.This is a simple, light, refreshing, and delicious dish. ¾-pound of sea or... (Continue reading)
Cactus (Nopalitos) Salad- Lesterloon
Written on 3 Dec, 2013 at 0:34 in Appetizers & Little Dishes, Naturally Light Mexican Food, Recipes, Salads, Salads |
I had never had a nopalitos salad made by this method method and I liked it. This is a rare chance to post the recipes in both English and Spanish. I translated Lesterlloon’s original Spanish-language version. 6... (Continue reading)
Peanut Snack from Oaxaca
Recipe from The Food and Life of Oaxaca, Every afternoon,vendors walk around the Zocalo selling these delicious peanuts with unpeeled garlic and dried chiles. There they use hotter-than-hell chiltepin chiles, tiny balls of fire but I just brought one... (Continue reading)
Salpicon de Huachinango
Written on 13 Sep, 2013 at 2:32 in Appetizers, Appetizers & Little Dishes, Featured, Naturally Light Mexican Food, Recipes |
. This recipe has become my signature dish, but actually I adapted it from one of the dishes my mother found when everyone was passing recipes on to me in El Paso. It was originally done with crab, but... (Continue reading)
Pickled Jalapeños stuffed with Tuna (Chiles Jalapeños en Escabeche)
Written on 12 Jun, 2013 at 6:30 in Appetizers, Appetizers & Little Dishes, Naturally Light Mexican Food, Recipes |
In Oaxacan marketplaces there are always plastic bags full of freshly pickled jalapeños — very good, but the ones that diligent cooks usually prefer to make at home are fantastic. It’s a good way to preserve a... (Continue reading)
Chiles Rellenos Nortenos
Photo: Laurie smith www.lauriesmithphotos.com When people in the United States think of chiles rellenos this is the version they are thinking of. Most people don’t realize that chile relleno simply means a stuffed chile and that it can... (Continue reading)
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