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.

Longaniza Sausages

How to make longaniza sausages, Mexican style. They're a bit like chorizo, but less vinegary.

How to Cook Nopales

Nopales, prickly pear cactus paddles, are delicious, but you need to know some tricks to cook nopales without slime.

Mexican Masa Empanadas

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 Make Masa Harina

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 Clean Nopales

How to clean nopales, prickly pear cactus paddles. Step by step instructions, with a video, on how to remove spines from nopales.

Smoked Pork Chops

Smoked pork chops, using real, meaty, fatty, thick pork chops. Useful in all sorts of ways!

How to Make Scrapple

Classic mid-Atlantic scrapple is pork, spices, cornmeal, buckwheat flour and love.

Green Chorizo

Green chorizo has green chiles, lots of cilantro or parsley, plus a secret ingredient...

How to Make Nixtamal

Nixtamal. Such a cool word! It is to Mesoamerica what hominy is to the United States: corn treated with an…

Nopales en Escabeche

A recipe for nopales en escabeche, pickled nopales from Mexico. Prickly pear cactus pads, diced and piickled with jalapenos, carrots and onions.

Duck Confit

Everything you need to know about how to make duck confit or goose confit at home.