How-To (DIY stuff)
How to Make Corn Tortillas
How to make corn tortillas at home, from either fresh dough or masa harina. Homemade tortillas are much better than store-bought, once you learn how.
How-To (DIY stuff)
How to make corn tortillas at home, from either fresh dough or masa harina. Homemade tortillas are much better than store-bought, once you learn how.
Charcuterie
How to make longaniza sausages, Mexican style. They're a bit like chorizo, but less vinegary.
How-To (DIY stuff)
Nopales, prickly pear cactus paddles, are delicious, but you need to know some tricks to cook nopales without slime.
Mexican
How to make Mexican empanadas from scratch. These are masa empanadas, corn dough, not flour. You can fill them with anything you like.
How-To (DIY stuff)
Masa harina is dried tortilla dough. You can buy it, but if you have good corn, here's how to make homemade masa harina.
How-To (DIY stuff)
How to clean nopales, prickly pear cactus paddles. Step by step instructions, with a video, on how to remove spines from nopales.
Recipe
Smoked pork chops, using real, meaty, fatty, thick pork chops. Useful in all sorts of ways!
Recipe
Classic mid-Atlantic scrapple is pork, spices, cornmeal, buckwheat flour and love.
Charcuterie
Green chorizo has green chiles, lots of cilantro or parsley, plus a secret ingredient...
How-To (DIY stuff)
Nixtamal. Such a cool word! It is to Mesoamerica what hominy is to the United States: corn treated with an…
Mexican
A recipe for nopales en escabeche, pickled nopales from Mexico. Prickly pear cactus pads, diced and piickled with jalapenos, carrots and onions.
Ducks and Geese
Everything you need to know about how to make duck confit or goose confit at home.