Sad Songs from a Happy Heart- Available for sale now!
Sad Songs from a Happy Heart is finally done! It’s live at CD Baby and available for download and hard copies and on amazon for download only. It’s a gathering! A party! A show! Help me celebrate the release of my album with Humberto M. Flores, Sad Songs...
Delitefully Mexican New Recipes
This is the way I cook now and you can too! The recipes are simple to prepare, nutritious, and flavor packed. Shredded Beef Salad (Salpicon de res) Photo by Lazaro Azar “Salpicon” is not exactly a precise term. Depending on the context, it can refer to different kinds...
Stuffed Baby Eggplant
For maybe two or three years, I’d often think of some delicious baby eggplants stuffed with a mixture of pomegranate, lots of garlic, walnuts, and cilantro, then marinated in olive oil that one of my favorite aunts, tia Panchita used to make when I was a...
The “Seven” Moles of Oaxaca
I like to describe mole (pronounced mohleh not mohlay) as a main dish sauce because the sauce is the dish. In pre-Hispanic times moles were served with great ceremony. According to various accounts, the mole was presented in a bowl with no handles on one hand, while...
Moles: What exactly is a mole?
Photo Marissa Sanchez-Bastien Photo by Laurie Smith www.lauriesmithphoto.com Text from The Food and Life of Oaxaca The true stars of Mexican sauce cookery are main dish sauces like moles and pepianes and here it’s important to understand the philosophy of the...
The many lives of Zarela Martínez
Culinary legend Zarela Martínez introduced finely tuned, highly researched regional Mexican cuisine to a national stage, and has continued to blaze trails for more than three decades.