What if your local market starting selling jars of salsa for 94 cents? Jars like this: And if the $0.94 version tasted significantly better than the $4.79 store-bought version, which would you buy? It would be a no-brainer right? So why do people still pay five bucks for store-bought salsa? I don’t know! FRESH, VIBRANT 94 CENT SALSA…
Mexican Cooking 101
This category includes lots of great tips and techniques for cooking authentic Mexican cuisine at home.
Easy Mexican Rice — Arroz Rojo
This simple version of Mexican Rice doesn’t want you to stress over the cooking time. Or worry about the flavor. Or fret over the fluffiness. It just wants a backburner where it can disappear for 20 minutes and do its own thing. So we’ll let it. Arroz Rojo Mexican Rice Recipe Yes, there are more complex…
Authentic Salsa Verde Recipe
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…
Homemade Flour Tortillas Done Right
Quickly scan this ingredient list: Bleached wheat flour, interesterified soybean oil, hydrogenated soybean oil, water, sodium bicarbonate, sodium aluminum sulfate, monocalcium phosphate, sugar, sodium acid pyrophosphate, calcium propionate, sorbic acid, potassium sorbate, monoglycerides, enzymes, sodium stearoyl lactylate, wheat starch, sodium metabisulfate. When combined, these ingredients will make: A) cement B) barbiturates laced with bleached flour C)…
Salsa Verde Emergency Rescue Technique
It’s getting late. You’re still hungry. A really good idea pops in your head: bean and cheese taquitos dipped in salsa verde. You had a light dinner. You’ll probably be up for a couple more hours anyways. I deserve this. Recently you’ve gotten good at whipping up a homemade salsa verde using fresh tomatillos, so you open the…
4 Mexican Hot Sauces You Should Know
You’re lounging in a plush sea side cabana after an afternoon snorkel in transparent ocean water. ‘Quieres un poco de salsa picante?’ Errrr, what? Your Significant Other has ordered some lunch while you were finishing your swim and a waiter has arrived with a plate of fish tacos. The waiter repeats himself, ‘Quieres un poco de salsa picante?’…
Did You Say Homemade Lard?!
Refried beans, flour tortillas, tamales…they all have a secret ingredient in common that makes them taste Mexican. What is it? Answer: lard. Be honest, when you hear “lard” what’s the first image that pops in your head? Traffic jam at the main aorta valve? A pair of treasured jeans that you can no longer…
Homemade Stock Is the Secret
What if the chefs from your ten favorite restaurants came over to your kitchen one day and said: Look, we’re willing to tell you our biggest secret. It’s the secret that keeps people coming back to our restaurants to pay absurd prices for meals that cost us nearly nothing to make. After we tell you…
Chili Pepper 101
chili / chilᐧe / ’Chilē / noun: a small hot-tasting pod of a variety of Capsicum the crown jewel of Mexican cuisine your new best friend There are hundreds of varieties of fresh chili peppers. Then add in that dried chili peppers have a different name than their fresh counterparts and it can get confusing…
3 Keys to Perfect Homemade Salsa
When I walk past the salsa aisle in the grocery store I give it the Hand. Like a fed-up mother who doesn’t want to hear it. Or a traffic cop halting a lane of approaching cars. Or a dude who knows that store-bought salsa just doesn’t come close to the real thing. Spend five minutes…