After all the intense summer heat of the past week, now that it’s finally cooler I have been craving Mexican comfort food. I wanted enfrijoladas, those rich, creamy bean and cheese bits of yummy that melt in your mouth. An enfriolada is something like an enchilada only a bean sauce is used instead of the [...]
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It’s 12:45 a.m after one of the hottest days of summer. It was 105 degrees! The grandkids who are visiting for this week can’t sleep, house is too hot and my a/c wall unit is icing over. What to do, what to do? In the fridge was a massive bowl of the past two days [...]
My oldest son Albert is a fiend for my fried chicken. He’s probably gonna scream and holler on the phone at me, but I call him Nano. I never call him Albert even though he’s trained the rest of the family to do so. He was a tiny preemie baby, nothing like the huge beast [...]
Oatmeal in a Latino home is nothing like oatmeal in other places. The microwave stuff is just ickygoop nonsense and it just plain grosses me out. The plain oatmeal I’ve had at restaurants I will never have again because, well it’s just plain boring. It sits in the bowl all sad kinda looking at you [...]
Some things are just meant to be simple, delicious and evocative. My earliest memories of food and cooking always have the gorgeous aroma of beans simmering on my grandmother’s stove. She made a fresh pot almost every day and the smell is woven into all my memories of her, the house with the creaky wooden [...]
It was a hot summer night and I didn’t feel like making a full dinner. We just weren’t that hungry but something snacky sounded good. I mentally started going through the recipe list that lives in my head for something cool, spicy, semi-healthy and fun. Running through the list I wasn’t finding anything I was [...]
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I just came from the train station at Beverly & Vermont where I bought some champurrado and a tamale. The champurrado brought back memories of growing up in my grandmother’s warm kitchen, the sweet smell of cinnamon wafting through the house. I loved when she made champurrado or other flavored atoles. There was just something [...]
It’s kind of cold outside but I am thinking of summer and everything that is sunny and bright. On a day when I should be thinking longingly of hot chocolate, I am imagining the rows of big glass jars with ladles filled with a rainbow of colored liquids and ice. Aguas frescas or fresh waters [...]
My grandmother Lupe was famous for her cooking in our neighborhood. Even within our family of excellent cooks, she stood out and everyone loved her cooking. Today at the hospital, I saw two of my mother’s cousins 2nd cousins, Angie and Louise whom I hadn’t seen in years and they were talking about the enchiladas [...]
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In my family, we all have our favorite things my Grandma Lupe cooked. I was just visiting my Aunt Jessie in the hospital and we were of course talking about food. I asked her what her favorite thing was that my grandma cooked and she immediately smiled and said, “the mole with nopales and carne [...]
Continue reading about Carne de puerco con mole y nopales (Pork with cactus in red mole sauce)
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