Beets are a food that conjures up strong emotions for some people. I happen to be a person that enjoys their earthy flavor. Growing up, we occasionally had beets at home. My mom would buy the canned version and slice them up for us to eat on the […]
If you like mole but hate the time-consuming process, you will LOVE this sauce. It combines black beans with many of the ingredients in traditional moles. The result is a rich sauce you can use with tamales, chicken and even over scrambled eggs for breakfast. I’ve also used […]
The weather we are having in our part of the world makes me feel like baking. Winter weather has arrived before it is welcome (at least for me). But a nice fire roaring in our fireplace and an oven baking usually helps make things better. What I like […]
We recently had some bananas that were getting nicely sweet and ripe and needed to be used in some way. Usually, I make banana bread and that is what I did again. But this time, I used a recipe from Marge Poore’s 1,000 Mexican Recipes cookbook. I noticed […]
This recipe is from a cookbook I bought recently thanks to a gift card from my in-laws. I had checked it out from our public library, but as I read through the cookbook, I realized I had to buy it. It had too many recipes I wanted to […]
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