India Journal: Visit to Pure Ghee Textile Designs
Ghee, clarified buffalo or cow butter, is the essential cooking and flavoring oil in India. Ghee also has religious significance and is used at life cycle celebrations throughout the country. It is highly nutritious and is part of the ayurvedic system, which forms the basis of spirituality, food, and health. One could say that ghee […]
Higadito, Oaxaca Scrambled Egg Soup — Vegetarian Recipe
A traditional fiesta breakfast dish here in Oaxaca, Mexico is called Higadito — scrambled egg soup. It is always served at banquet breakfasts for weddings, baptisms, birthday parties and any other big family celebration. On Sundays, when I go to the Tlacolula Market and have lunch at Comedor Mary, it is a staple on the […]
Soup Kitchen With a Bite: Vegetarian Leek and Potato Soup
Friends are coming to dinner tonight. The pond is frozen and it’s a chilly 23 degrees in North Carolina. In four weeks, I’ll be back in Oaxaca. Meantime, it’s supposed to snow on Tuesday! I wanted to prepare a delicious, healthy, warming soup tonight to serve in mugs, no spoons needed, as a first course […]
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 […]