Walnut Sauce from Victor’s Grandmother

Walnut Sauce from Victor’s Grandmother Probably the best known walnut is the one used for Chiles en nogada and I must confess that I had never had one made with mustard. I assume that this sauce is used as a salad dressing. 3½ ounces walnuts½ cup milk6 ancho chiles...

Marinated Ancho Chiles

Marinated Ancho Chiles I am able to give you this recipe because of the Internet and the social networks that it has made possible. I put up a post on my new Chef of the Month, Victor Nava Pastelero with the caveat that the recipes he had given me would not be up...

Yucatan Marinade (Adobo Yucateco)

I remember Ernesto, a workman on the ranch where I grew up, making adobes early one summer with boys he brought in from town to help. They would make the mixture with dark mud from the arroyo, adding water to make it more liquid and removing big rocks from the mixture...