Huitlacoche Crepe Casserole
Huitlacoche Crepe Casserole This is one of my favorite party dishes. It is quite labor-intensive but the different elements can be prepared and assembled one or two days in advance and all you have to do the day of the party is put it in the oven. I serve it as a...Herbs for Mole Verde and Pepian
Preparations for tomorrow’s Mexican Cooking Live with Zarela have been intense but fun. I spent hours on the telephone with Dell and Time Warner upgrading my service to get sufficient bandwidh to broadcast a clear picture. Dell had to readjust my...
Mole Verde (Green Mole)
Mole Verde (Green Mole) For those who attended my class at the Gourmet Latino Festival, here is the recipe for mole verde. We will be serving it this week along with 6 other moles from the state of Oaxaca. Thank you for your enthusiastic response. I so enjoyed myself...Epazote
Epazote (Chenopodium ambrosioides) is an aromatic perennial herb with an assertive, somewhat bitter taste. It grows wild in many parts of the United States — even Central Park, New York — and has various English names of which my favorite is...
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.