Mexican recipes

Mexican chocolate honey cake Prep time: 20 minutes Cook time: 25 minutes plus cooling Serves 8 A bit of heat and a lot of sweet make this mango-topped chocolate honey cake a fine choice for celebrating Cinco de Mayo. ...

Did you know that Sacramento boasts the state’s most sustainable fresh seafood counter? The Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op holds several awards for their seafood: In 2011, Greenpeace named it the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my websit...

Coffee cup chilaquiles Prep time: 4 minutes Cook time: 70 seconds (in the microwave oven) Serves 1 INGREDIENTS 1 egg 1 tablespoon milk Salt, pepper 1...

Celery—that crunchy veggie once reserved strictly as a holding device for peanut butter—is finally getting its day in the sun. This time, the beautifully peppery crunch accompanies a hot sauce [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my webs...

My mom used to say that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach. I firmly believe that my deployment of this old adage led to the successful ...

Source: splendidtable.publicradio.org via Stacy on PinterestI made this Mexican Tortilla Casserole last night, thanks to my weekly recipe e-mail from The Splendid Table. It was easy to make, flexible, delicious, filling, good enough for company and sim...

“Fish tacos are hard to make!” the checkout clerk at the grocery store tells me as she rings up my fresh, wild Alaskan halibut fillets. “There are two secrets,” I [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, ot...

Approximately 150 years ago, when I was still going to UC Davis, I worked as a mental health counselor at a crisis house.  As you can imagine, such a job is very emotionally taxing, so we counselors hung out outside of work quite a bit, to decompress and have a chance to process the...

Things I am currently thankful for: Long sunny afternoons at the park with my boys, my friends and their beautiful children. My kids had last week off for presidents week (?!?!) and three of those afternoons off were spent outdoors

“The sea is too dangerous today,” our hotel proprietor at the bed and breakfast in Chacala, Mexico tells me. I want to go deep sea fishing. A few years ago, [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, a...