Mexican
Chilaca Pork Stew
Chilaca chiles are long, skinny green chiles great for rajas, which are in this pork stew. You can substitute poblanos.
How-To (DIY stuff)
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.
Mexican
Xoconostle Salsa
A xoconostle salsa recipe from Mexico. Xoconostle, or tuna agria, is a kind of sour prickly pear fruit.
How-To (DIY stuff)
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.
Charcuterie
Green Chorizo
Green chorizo has green chiles, lots of cilantro or parsley, plus a secret ingredient...
Appetizers and Snacks
Tacos Dorados
In America, we call these taquitos. Either way, they're easy and delicious.
Mexican
Salsa Morita
A salsa morita recipe. Morita chiles, which are small, red chipotles, mixed with roasted tomatillos, onion and garlic. This is a picante salsa.
Mexican
Pozole Rojo
An authentic pozole rojo - red pozole - made with pork, hominy and red chiles, dressed with all sorts of good things.
How-To (DIY stuff)
How to Make Nixtamal
Nixtamal. Such a cool word! It is to Mesoamerica what hominy is to the United States: corn treated with an…
Essays and Stories
The World in a Tortilla
Cuisines, really most things, hinge on the perfect execution of something most of us think little about. In Mexican food, it is the tortilla.
Mexican
Mexican Picadillo
Mexican picadillo is the real "taco meat" that Americans are used to. This picadillo is from Sonora and is not sweet like many others.
Mexican
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.
