Always Dreaming of Oaxaca: NY Times Quick Tacos Recipe
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/27/dining/the-simple-pleasure-of-tacos-city-kitchen.html?_r=1# Here I am in Soquel, California, the idyllic, temperate hillside perch above Santa Cruz, dreaming of Oaxaca. This New York Times recipe has triggered my taste buds and memory. So easy, you can make it yourself. In NC all our tortillas, even from the best Mexican markets, are packaged and imported from elsewhere. So […]
Recipe: Fresh Peach Mango Tomato Salsa for a Crowd
Thinking of Oaxaca and Guelaguezta this week? There’s no better flavor or memory of Mexico than using fresh tomatoes from the garden for salsa. I had a couple of peaches and mangoes ripe ready and needing to be eaten. Plus, Stephen had harvested a couple of huge purple-red tomatoes from the organic garden plot yesterday. […]
So Easy Recipe for Homemade Organic Corn Tortillas + Yummy Mini-Quesadillas
Who would have thought that making fresh corn tortillas would be so easy? I have watched for years as Magda takes her organic corn kernels to the local molina (corn grinder) in Teotitlan del Valle, then adds lime and salt, mixes the dough, tenderly pats out the little corn circles by hand, and tends them […]
Soup Kitchen: Mexican Sopa Verde — Spicy Cilantro Vegetable Soup
This vegan soup is like drinking your vegetables. It’s a spicy broth flavored with garlic, lemon and cilantro with a few more things from the veggie bin thrown in for good measure. It’s still chilly here in North Carolina and it’s five more weeks until I get back to Oaxaca. What draws me closer is […]
Soup Kitchen: Oaxaca Spicy Sopa de Garbanzo (Chickpea Soup)
We eat this delicious, rich and creamy soup at the home of our friends in Teotitlan del Valle. Dolores, Federico’s wife, prepares it periodically for cena (late supper) accompanied by quesadillas. With a cerveza (preferably Indio) we are in heaven. At Las Granadas Bed and Breakfast, Josefina makes it for comida (lunch) as a first […]
Recipe: Watermelon Tomato Gazpacho
As I was dreaming up this recipe and testing it before serving it to guests for dinner on Saturday night, I thought about Oaxaca, so the flavors definitely fit into what I would imagine a Oaxaca-style gazpacho to taste like: fruity and savory. Ingredients: 1/2 watermelon, peeled, cubed and seeded (pink flesh only) 1 English […]