Tag: mexican

Yay!  It’s snack food Sunday!  Um, I mean Super Bowl Sunday.   If you’re looking for an easy snack to serve at your Super Bowl party, look no further than these Crispy tortillas with salsa …

When it comes to dinner, I’m an obsessive planner.  With a full time job and an hour commute and two kids, my dinnertime meals are regimented.  But lunch is more spur of the moment.  Not …

    I must have missed out on the “party planning gene” that every other person in the world seems to have, or at least other moms. I look at Pinterest, with the decorations and …

So if you listen to as many food-related podcasts as I do, you may have noticed that lately there has been a lot of talk about cooking (I blame Michael Pollan) - about how it's …

... We're all familiar with the role that California black olives play in traditional Cal Mex cuisine -- they're a regular feature of nachos, enchiladas, and taco salads. I decided to use them in …

I make no pretenses that this is based on some autentico salsa especiale I tasted in a tiny cafe in Zihuatanejo. In fact, this recipe is based entirely on a pineapple I had in …

<a title="LA Times Carne Asada by The Domestic Front, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/amusebouches/5928508527/"><img alt="LA Times Carne Asada" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6030/5928508527_cf4c41861a.jpg" width="500" height="333" /></a><br /> Now that I live here, although there are plenty of visits to the local taqueria, …