Avocado, Pomegranate and Vegetable Salad (Ensalada de Corpus Christi)
This delightful Mexican fruit and vegetable salad salad is served on Corpus Christi in Mexico, but right now is the perfect time to make this unusual salad. Everything is in season except for perhaps the pomegranates. They will be along soon. Use frozen if you have to...
Spiced Fish Hash from Veracruz (Minilla)
Spiced Fish Hash from Veracruz (Minilla) For some strange reason until very recently people did not associate fish dishes with Mexican food. Nothing could be further from the truth. Except for the north, the whole country is surrounded by water but it is in Veracruz...Dry Spice Rub
If you have visited marketplaces in Yucatan, you have seen colorful mounds of different spice pastes in many shades from black or green to yellow or red, for home cooks to buy in small quantities. These are the famous regional recados, complex and intensely flavored...
Beets Vinaigrette (Betabeles en vinaigreta)
Beets Vinaigrette (Betabeles en vinaigreta) This is one of the most flavorful and beautiful salads imaginable if you follow a few guidelines. First of all, it is important to oven-roast the beets for maximum sweetness. The will never be the same if boiled. The next...
Meatballs in Chipotle Sauce (Albóndigas en salsa de chipotle)
Meatballs in Chipotle Sauce (Albóndigas en salsa de chipotle) Forget Swedish meatballs! These spicy, smoky meatballs are always a favorite when I cater a party. I served them at the Donaldson Adoption Institute benefit and several people asked for the recipe. Here it...
The many lives of Zarela Martínez
Culinary legend Zarela Martínez introduced finely tuned, highly researched regional Mexican cuisine to a national stage, and has continued to blaze trails for more than three decades.