Pollo Relleno de Papas (Achiote-marinated chicken stuffed with potatoes)

Here is a delicious albeit time-consuming recipe using achiote.  Check out the recipe section for Picadillo de Pobre where it is also used.
Pollo Relleno de Papas
Potato-Stuffed Oven-Roasted Chicken
Every time I’ve been to the market at Juchitán I’ve found quite a few women selling this dish — except, for some reason, on my most recent 1996 [...]

Monarch butterflies in Michoacan

Want to get away from this freezing cold?  Get on the plane and go to my next-Oaxaca nominee, Michoacan and see the Monarch butterflies.
I’ve sadly never felt the silky, fluttering sensation of being covered in monarch butterflies as they arrive in the State of Michoacan and the State of Mexico to rest in the [...]

El Pedimento – New Year’s Eve in Mitla and Juquila, Oaxaca

El Pedimento – January 31st in Oaxaca
Curiously of all the items I’ve posted in the last year, this post has gotten the most hits .  I imagine that its popularity is rooted in magic or wishful thinking.  It would be wonderful if our wishes became our realities though there’s that famous line “More tears have [...]

Treasure of Mexican Convent Cookery dedicated to the Virgin of Guadalupe

Run on “light feet” with the Raramuris in Chihuahua

As a conversation starter, I like to ask people what they do for fun.  Sadly, a surprising number are at a loss for an answer.  Not so,  my friend and mentor, media visionary Dave Morgan, founder of Real Media, last of Tacoda fame and with a brand new cutting edge concept , Simulmedia, in the [...]

El Saber del Sabor – Slowfood Terra Madre Day

Subject: Terra Madre Day 2009
Please see the information attached about the Slow Food conference this Thursday, December 10 at Los Danzantes in Oaxaca, Mexico
10/12/2009
Terra Madre Day
El 10 de diciembre Slow Food festeja sus 20 años celebrando la comida local en todo el mundo
Las comunidades de todo el mundo se preparan para celebrar la comida local [...]

Pastel de Carne del Istmo – Oaxacan Meat Loaf

Pastel de Carne del Istmo
Isthmian-Style Meat Loaf
No one can say that this meat loaf is boring!  It absolutely explodes with intense flavors, including various smoked, canned, or pickled ingredients that are popular in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.  This dish is a favorite there at the parties accompanying the velas (patron saints’ fiestas) of the neighborhoods [...]

Gastronomic tour of Catemaco and the Los Tuxtlas Area in Veracruz

Catemaco and the surrounding area is one of the most beautiful places in Mexico with some of the best food in all of Veracruz and maybe Mexico.  No wonder that ancient Mexicans thought that this was the paradise where all good souls went to rest and play for all eternity.
This weekend we are featuring a [...]

Pavo Borracho

Many years agom New York Magazine my sister Aida’s recipe for Drunken Turkey and I still get requests for it every year.  So let’s travel to El Paso so I can put it up on the home page!

Recipe: Pavo Borracho (Drunken Turkey)
Summary: My sister Aída is a wonderful cook with an assertive hand. She developed [...]

Ask Zarela: Netskies Casa del Sol, Juarez, Mexico

As soon as I  published the recipe for Escabeche Casa del Sol recipe I got the following query.  I’ve been trying since then to get the recipe for the Netskies from the now sadly long-departed restaurant and finally succeeded.  Here is the conversation:
HI,
My wife’s family, the Wheatleys, frequented the Casa del Sol in Juarez for [...]

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