Zucchini is one of my favorite ingredients. One of my comfort foods is calabacitas, a dish I realized I have not posted here yet. This dish is a bit different, but I like the combination of flavors. The recipe comes from the Cooking with too hot tamales cookbook […]
Last summer, we had the chance to spend some time in a small cabin overlooking Lake Superior on Minnesota’s North Shore. I knew the cabin had a small kitchen, so I researched recipes from the Great Lakes region and from the Upper Midwest in general. During my search, […]
If you have had a chance to browse through el chino latino cocina, you will notice that I like garbanzo beans, and beans in general. Here I present another garbanzo bean recipe! Thanks to a gift from my parents-in-law, I am having a great time exploring the many […]
As a kid, I became familiar with two types of lettuce: romaine and iceberg. We would use them interchangeably for salads and for sandwiches. We would always have a simple iceberg salad with radishes, cucumber, tomato and red onion whenever the family got together for what I would […]
This is a salad I make whenever the mangos I see at the market are nice and ripe. Since it uses many traditionally Mexican ingredients, I’ve found it works well as a salad for most Mexican meals. The mangos bring sweetness, the poblanos a smoky flavor and the […]
Growing up with Mexican flavors, Greek food was a savory surprise. As a California/Mexican kid, most of the “foreign” flavors I enjoyed were from Asia: Filipino, Vietnamese, Thai, etc. It wasn’t until I moved to Michigan that I learned to enjoy the flavors of the Mediterranean. While this […]
When I saw this salad, I knew I had to make it! Not only do I love tomatoes but when you add the sweet tartness of fresh pomegranate and the sourness of sumac, they are even better. It is a simple salad, but it is big on flavor. […]
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