comida mexicana
tamales today
I will forever have a soft spot in my heart for the banana leaf wrapped tamales that I grew up on and they will ALWAYS be my favorite, but… these are so ridiculously easy to make!! Crossing fingers they taste good and that Ingot the masa texture right.
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recipe: vegetarian frijoles charros
I will fess up from the get-go – pinto beans and I have not been friends. I grew up on the black beans that were familiar to my Yucatecan parents and well…. they don’t really eat pinto beans or flour tortillas or enchiladas or that rice with little carrots and peas in it. In my […]
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tortilla soup leftovers
tortilla soup leftovers, a photo by a_neelee on Flickr. We have been on a mushy food diet for a full week following my husband’s dental surgery. He had 4 wisdom teeth removed (OUCH!!) and I am doing my best to keep him fed with tasty somethings. Pardon the quick post. Wanted to give the flickr […]
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vegetarian recipe: fideo seco
Fideos are a household staple for Latin-American families across the country and it rivals a pressure-cooked pot of beans in ease. Growing up, we ate my mom’s variation of the dish that was affectionately referred to as sopita. Her “little soup” consisted of noodles in a tomato-chicken broth and we would slurp it up on […]
Morerecipe: steam-fried eggs
Feliz Año Nuevo! Just a quick post to show one of our most-favorite breakfasts in the whole wide world – steam-fried eggs with black beans and homemade salsa. If you’ve already got beans and salsa in the fridge, it’s a super-quick whip-up that even I can manage before my first cup of coffee. My Steam-Fried […]
Morepumpkin delights
In the fall, grocery stores are filled with all things pum’kin – pies, bread, muffins, pancakes and lattes. Last year, we discovered what has now become our mostest favoritest pumpkin-infused treat ever – tortillas! There is this wonderful Austin-based tortilleria, Paqui Tortillas, that peddles the little round flats of heaven. They’re the kinda good that need […]
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