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How to Cook Nopales

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

Catfish, simmered, traditionally in a clay pot, in a sweet-spicy-savory sauce and served over rice.

How to make Mexican empanadas from scratch. These are masa empanadas, corn dough, not flour. You can fill them with anything you like.

A fantastic party appetizer to celebrate your spring gobbler.

Chilaca chiles are long, skinny green chiles great for rajas, which are in this pork stew. You can substitute poblanos.

A recipe for Chinese salt and pepper fish, using halibut. Really any fish fish works, but the key is really good black pepper.

Fried turkey breast (wild or store-bought), cut into chunks, then breaded with Saltines and served with Mississippi comeback sauce.

Masa harina is dried tortilla dough. You can buy it, but if you have good corn, here’s how to make homemade masa harina.