Achiote Paste (Recado de adobo colorado)
When I first wrote this recipe, I started with whole annatto seeds which are hard and difficult to work with, but with so many brands of commercial achiote paste available to use as a base, I have changed the recipe. This recado is the basis of many Yucatán...Yucatan Marinade (Adobo Yucateco)
I remember Ernesto, a workman on the ranch where I grew up, making adobes early one summer with boys he brought in from town to help. They would make the mixture with dark mud from the arroyo, adding water to make it more liquid and removing big rocks from the mixture...
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.