Fiestas Patrias is a big deal for me. I usually go all out and have a big party, invite tons of people, make mountains of red, white and green food, have papel picado and paper flowers decorating the house, my Aztec dancer group dances, the big Mexican flag is out, there’s music (sometimes mariachis) and [...]
So there was this chocolate sauce just sitting in my fridge, left over from the eclairs. The chocolate glaze was in there too. Seriously, they were calling me, begging not to be left in there on their own. Several times, i walked over and thought maybe I should make more eclairs. Maybe creampuffs. No, it’s [...]
I’ve been craving my grandmother’s arroz con pollo for a couple of days now. I’ve been a little obsessed actually. I can’t remember when the last time I had it was, but it had to have been when I was in my teens. I tried making it a couple of times when I was married, [...]
One of my favorite recipes that my grandmother Lupe made was her enchiladas de jocoque. She rarely made them, probably because of the unavailability of jocoque in Los Angeles in the 1960’s and ‘70’s when she was teaching me to cook. When she did find jocoque, it was because someone brought it to [...]
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When I was a little girl, I was fascinated all the things my grandparents could do with and knew about plants. That fascination deepened as I grew older and even now, the sight of hollyhocks or lamb’s quarters growing on the side of the road always makes me want to stop and forage.
My grandmother’s [...]
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I was recently going through my photos of things I’ve made in the past few weeks to put up on the blog and came across this amazing little meatloaf that I quickly threw together using the left over ground turkey mixture from my albondigas recipe.
The day I made the albondigas, I had far too much [...]
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I am a taquito making machine. I can produce 100s of the little flute-shaped delicious finger foods in the shortest amount of time. I’m not quite sure why that is, maybe having four hungry and growing kids who always asked for taquitos (and they were hungry ALL the time) had something to do [...]
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It’s New Year’s Eve and I’m spending a very mellow evening at home with my grandchildren Jasmine and Aiden while their mom is working. We went for a lovely walk in the sunshine to the market to buy ingredients for tonight’s dinner and had a great time doing so. Jasmine was excited to see [...]
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