Nothing will transform your kitchen more than having go-to recipes for the two pillars of Mexican cuisine: red sauce and green sauce. Today it's the Green Sauce on center stage. Otherwise known as Tomatillo-Serrano sauce, or Salsa Verde, or Mexico's #2 salsa. A homemade green sauce can transform eggs, slow cooker carnitas, and enchiladas into something...
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Mexican Lentil Soup (Vegetarian Version)
In Mexico lentils are typically paired with mucho meat to form hearty stews, with bacon and chorizo being the most common counterparts. But for anyone leaning towards a plant-based diet, this vegetarian version of Mexican Lentil Soup retains all the flavor of the traditional stews and skips the meat. It's easy to keep all of these ingredients...
2 More Flavored Salts to Choose From
A couple weeks ago we tackled a tough question: Should Valentina salt be legal? (see post here) Or do we need laws in place to protect ourselves from abusing it? Today we are looking at two brethren of the highly regarded Valentina salt. We’ll be mimicking that same process but this time we’ll substitute two distinct...
Homemade Chipotle Flavored Flour Tortillas
The homemade flour tortillas from this recent post work great when they are acting as a supporting player in your meal. When you have a dominant sauce/salsa providing most of the flavor then you usually don’t need any competing flavors from the tortilla. But you are busy right? It’s not easy to find time to make Mexican masterpieces...