Oaxacan Tamales de Mole Amarillo
October 31, 2009
Since pre-Hispanic times, tamales have been the number one festive food. Everywhere in Mexico tamales are fiesta food — the equivalent of saying, “Let’s party!”
Enchiladas de Chorro -Pancake-like Enchiladas from Sonor
October 28, 2009
A few years ago, we honored Josefina Velasquez de Leon on our Days of the Dead celebrations. It was then that I discovered this recipe from my native state of Sonora. The enchiladas a not only delicious but much easier to make buy lower in calories than traditional enchiladas where the tortillas are first fried, [...]
Pan Resobado -Pan de Muertos de Oaxaca
October 28, 2009
Pan Resobado
Rich Spiced Sweet Bread
This is typical of the sweet yeast breads that are made in the Valley of Oaxaca for the Days of the Dead, November 1 and 2. Often they are simple round loaves that are inset after baking with cameolike images done in colored sugar and special decorative materials — for example, [...]
Ricardo Santana
October 26, 2009
El prestigiado diseñador de modas mexicano acomete con el mismo entusiasmo vestuario que decoración con resultados siempre exitosos y muy personales
Por Pedro Luis de Aguinaga
Algunos piensan que Ricardo Santana es el primer diseñador profesional que tuvo México. Yo no lo sé y él tampoco, aunque a ambos nos queda claro que cuando se decidió a [...]
A comer o cenar en Guadalajara
October 24, 2009
A comer (o cenar!) en Guadalajara
Por Pedro Luis de Aguinaga
Nunca antes Guadalajara había tenido tantos restoranes y tampoco había ofrecido la variedad de cocinas que en la actualidad, cuando ha llegado a más de los 4 millones de habitantes. Difícil es conocer absolutamente todos los sitios, por lo que hicimos un sondeo que nos dio [...]
Days of the Dead Celebrations
October 24, 2009
Zarela Restaurant honors Budd Schulberg for the Day of the Dead Celebrations
Over the 22 years that Zarela Restaurant has been open, I have set up may Days of the Dead altars: my ex-husband , my father, my mother, my dear friend Robert Palmer, comedian Johnny Carson, actor Paul Newman, El Santo, Lola Beltran but this [...]
Ask Zarela: Higado Encebollado- My Mother’s Smothered Liver
October 23, 2009
Aaron said your mom’s Liver and Bacon recipe is yummy – but I still cant find it on your website…
Recipe: Higado Encebollado
Summary: There were many great cooks on both sides of my family. I am lucky enough to have cooked with most of them, even one or two generations removed. This liver recipe was [...]
Singing, Eating and Shopping in Tlaquepaque
October 19, 2009
Like cooking, singing is my therapy. I do both when I’m happy, when I’m blue, to relax when I am anxious, to forget things that are bothering me but I can’t do anything about. When I cook, I’m making an offering to my beau or my guests but I sing for my sole pleasure and [...]
Ask Zarela: Where can I eat in Guadalajara?
October 17, 2009
A reader recently wrote, referring to my comments that I had only eaten on the street or in homes during my recent trip to Guadalajara, said that she knew no one in there so eating at someone’s home was probably out of the question as was eating on the street, so where could she eat? [...]
Tamarind
October 12, 2009
The first two things I eat when I get to Mexico is a boiled or roasted ear of satisfying chewy Mexican corn and a tamarind popsicle. I simply adore the sweet-tart flavor of tamarind ! Just thinking about them makes my lips puckef and my mouth waters in anticipation. While it has not traditionally [...]
