July 30, 2022 • Category: Reviews This cookbook is a delight. The layout and graphics are exquisite and the photographs are outstanding and really capture all there is to love about my native city. Hisham Assaad did an outstanding job with this work, one that I consider to be Art through and through. Leafing through…
August 24, 2022 • Category: Sweet Pastries, Pastries/Breads This recipe took me about 3 months (even longer) to make. I had prepared the dough (it takes one minute or so) and stored it in a bag in the fridge. I kept glancing at it every once in a while thinking about making sweetheart using one…
August 26, 2022 • Category: Sweet Pastries, Pastries/Breads I guess I must be getting good in baking (or over confident) but I made this without measuring anything, and it worked fine. Just to show that this is a very easy roll despite the somewhat unusual ingredients. I had made it years ago with a brioche…
October 17, 2022 • Category: Mexican fusion, Condiments, Pantry This is an ingredient used in the Mexican kitchen that I have discovered recently and grown very fond of. It is called piloncillo and is made of pure unrefined sugarcane. I have used it when making Mexican sauces or mole; I have also added it in…
November 26, 2022 • Category: Mexican fusion, Whole Grain/Bulgur/Rice I had been wanting to try my hand at this rice for a while. It consists of making a green salsa with poblano peppers, onion, garlic then cooking the rice in it with the addition of fresh corn kernels. The rice can be served alongside a…
January 11, 2023 • Category: Salads My world has now become enchilad (more on that in another post), so when I decided I wanted to make coleslaw, it was obvious I was going to find a way to add a chile or two somewhere. So I did. A few jalapeños went into the processor…
March 29, 2023 • Category: Mexican fusion, Main Dish, Vegan Ramadan Mubarak! I have just returned from two weeks in Mexico, where I divided my time between Mexico city and Mazatlán in the state of Sinaloa. I wanted to take a cooking class in both places; so I joined a WhatsApp foodies group in…
