by Brian | Feb 11, 2020 | Recipes
From the recent hit cookbook Oaxaca comes this “mom dish.” This is dish that you would have waiting for you on a Wednesday afternoon when you come home from school. Golly, I wish I were back in school in Oaxaca. Oaxaca is considered the culinary capital of Mexico. The...
by Brian | Jan 27, 2020 | Recipes
For this Sunday, Super Bowl Sunday, millions of us will be dabbling with Mexican food. Nachos, guacamole, salsas galore, chips by the bagful. What if, instead of a nosh, you could serve a real dish of substance. A savory dish with fire. And avocado leaves – see, it’s...
by Brian | Jun 14, 2019 | Recipes
Suzi was doing her semi-annual labor of love: fashioning a new menu for her cooking school, Cooking by the Book. It’s the only fully hands-on cooking school in New York City, so she has to find recipes that a team of twenty can prepare in about one hour in our...
by Brian | Nov 10, 2017 | Recipes
Rellenos without cheese? Without a relleno? Yes and yes and all is fine. There’s a delightful pair of books, Green Chile Bible and Red Chile Bible, that Suzi and I got long ago in Santa Fe. We pop in and out of them as our chile addiction leads us onward towards...
by Brian | Oct 19, 2017 | Recipes, TBT
Here’s a recipe we posted way back in 2010. This time of year, you’ll find bins of “end of summer” cucumber at your farmers market. So many cucumbers. So little time to enjoy fresh ones now. You can slice them and put them on your eyes....