Cauliflower Cakes

Cauliflower Cakes

Cauliflower Cakes One of the most popular vegetables at Zarela were our broccoli cakes and I’ve taken to making them with different vegetables and they are all delicious. I especially like these that I came up with the other day. 2 cups very finely chopped...
Fish with Olives, Capers, and Pickled Jalapeños

Fish with Olives, Capers, and Pickled Jalapeños

Fish with Olives, Capers, and Pickled Jalapeños This is Peggy Knickerbocker's adaptation of my recipe in The Food and Life of Oaxaca! I, too, have made changes. I prefer Cerignola olives because green olives stuffed with pimentos tend to be more acidic. I could...

Los Tuxtlas-Style Chile-Lime Sauce (Chile pastor)

Los Tuxtlas-Style Chile-Lime Sauce (Chile pastor) Sauces don’t get much simpler than this marriage of four or five flavors that accompanies many dishes in the Tuxtlas area. It is great with picadas or pellizcadas, but I also like it with fish and meat dishes. Chile...
Five Different Stuffed Chiles (Chilles rellenos)

Five Different Stuffed Chiles (Chilles rellenos)

Photo Emmanuel Bastien When people in this country talk about chiles rellenos they usually mean the batter-fried, cheese-filled chiles below. But the words chile relleno simply means a stuffed chile and it can be any kind of chile with any filling. The chile above is...