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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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 [...]
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 [...]
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I am longing for sunshine and springtime which has got me thinking about verdolagas. Verdolagas (purslane, pigweed, hogweed) are to me all about spring. They grow wild on roadsides, all through Griffith Park and used to be, near the road where they put the Metro in Highland Park. i know the hills in Lincoln Heights [...]
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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 her from [...]
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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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