How-To (DIY stuff) Archives

Mexican

Salsa de Chile de Arbol

Salsa de chile de arbol is that really hot, smooth salsa you see in many Mexican restaurants. Here's how to make it.

Charcuterie

How to make rillettes from scratch at home. Rillettes are a sort of rough pate that is great with pork, wild game and fatty fish.

Mushrooms

This is a simple hen of the woods recipe where you slice the mushroom in big 'steaks,' then sear it under a weight.

Mexican

Mexican chicharron en salsa verde is a simple stew usually served as a taco filling. Pork or duck cracklins stewed in a tomatillo-green chile sauce.

Mexican

How to make Mexican tetelas, which are a triangular sort of empanada or dumpling of masa filled with beans and cheese.

How-To (DIY stuff)

In Argentina, chimichurri comes in two colors, the customary green and red chimichurri. This one adds sweet and hot peppers, plus paprika.

Appetizers and Snacks

A recipe for anticuchos de corazon, a Peruvian street snack of marinated heart, skewered and grilled. Beef, deer or lamb hearts all work.

Mexican

This recipe shows you how to add flavor to your salsa by roasting the ingredients, either on a grill or in the oven.

Salmon and Trout

Salmon jerky is salmon candy taken farther, so it's drier and keeps longer. Also works with large trout.

Mexican

How to use grape leaves to wrap tamales. So far as I know this is not done in Mexico, but it could be in Baja, Mexico's wine country.

Recipe

How to grow and cook with rau ram, Persicaria odorata. It's also called Vietnamese coriander or laksa leaf and is used like cilantro.

Ducks and Geese

When I decided to create a recipe for duck ravioli, I knew I wanted to do something besides substitute duck…