The posts feature recipes that we have gathered and created during our travels, including recipes from The Dish and Weekend Eggs posts.
This authentic sopa de tortilla recipe or tortilla soup recipe makes the most delicious tortilla soup we’ve ever tried. It’s a combination of a tortilla soup I’ve been making for many years, since our first trip to Mexico in the Nineties, and a tortilla soup I recently learnt from the lovely Marilau at her cooking … Read more
A Mexican cooking class in San Miguel de Allende was high on our to-do list in line with the experiential travel goals of our yearlong grand tour of the world, promoting slow travel, local travel and experiential travel. We’d been cooking Mexican food since our first trip to Mexico in the 1990s. But we’d never … Read more
Mexico’s tacos al pastor consists of corn tortillas topped with mouthwatering pork marinated with pineapple, spices and chillies, and sprinkled with white onions and cilantro. Traditionally the pork for tacos al pastor is slow-cooked on a vertical spit, but my tacos al pastor recipe has been created for home cooks without a vertical spit. This … Read more
This authentic huevos revueltos con chorizo recipe is based on the scrambled eggs with chorizo sausage dish we ate at Cafe El Popular about 15 years ago, on our second trip to Mexico. I arrived from San Francisco to meet Lara, who was already in Mexico City and the next morning, bleary eyed, we headed … Read more
Cooking, music, film, film and music, food and film… so far, we’ve done it all in Austin. We learned to barbecue, we met local musicians, we’ve seen lots of music, we’ve talked music with a record storeowner, and we’ve talked music with a filmmaker… So why not have a country music cooking lesson with a … Read more