The last of the garden cauliflowers was on the menu last night. Because I picked it a bit late, it was not a pretty white head but a scraggly thing with light green stems. Who cares what it looks like, I thought – it is still a cauliflower. So I decided to use it in an inexpensive, nutritious and delicious classic of Mexican home cooking More
It’s that time of the year…the weather is (mostly) chilly, the garden needs to be cleaned and harvested, and there are presents to make for friends. I started last week, picking up most of the peppers before the hard freeze: serranos, jalapeños and Hungarian Hot. With the serranos and jalapeños I made traditional rajas en escabeche, the classic Mexican pickled chiles with onion, garlic, carrot More
Thanks to the awfully named “Hispanic Heritage Month” celebration (Sep 15-Oct 15), Fiesta is loaded with unusual products that are not always available. During a recent visit I spied a couple of items in the produce section that filled my heart with patriotic pride. One of them was huauzontles (say “wah-zont-lays”), an herb of the goosefoot species, known and consumed since pre-Columbian times in Central More