My friend and long-time coauthor, Nancy Gerlach, and her husband Jeff finally achieved their dream and retired to their favorite place in the world, the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico.  Specifically, they live in Chelem, which is north of Mérida, in a beach-side house that they have remodeled.  Together, Nancy and I wrote ten books, including …

I’m trying to use up all of my fresh tomatoes, but I’m burned out on garden salads and gazpacho, which can only be eaten fresh, and now I’m on a mission find recipes that preserve the harvest when frozen.  We usually associate tomato sauces with Italian cooking, but there are many Mexican recipes that can …

If you’re as lucky as I am, there’s a bumper crop of tomatoes in your garden.  I have raised beds, and I switched out all the soil in the early spring and replaced it with compost that I made from produce scraps and yard trimmings.  That took two years, but the results were worth it.  …

The remains of seven different varieties of chiles found in a cave in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico have led researcher Linda Perry to theorize that early farmers were eating the early forms of salsa.  Perry is a scientist with the Smithsonian Institution who developed the technique of determining the type of plants in ancient …

Yesterday evening Mary Jane and I  didn’t feel like cooking, which is really odd, so we decided to eat leftovers from the freezer.  We decided on pot roast with garlic potatoes and other veggies.  MJ had cooked the roast in a slow cooker, and it was the same as unshredded machaca.  But I knew it …

Right now, chiles are being harvested in southern New Mexico, and it’s probably the best year in a decade for New Mexico’s favorite food. When we think of New Mexico chile, we usually have an image of the long green pods that turn red—the New Mexican varieties. But the crop is much more diverse than …

Being a total chilehead, I’m always interested in chile products that can make life easier.  The line of chile pastes manufactured by MexiChefs certainly fits that description.  Recently my friends at MexGrocer sent me the entire collection of MexiChef chile pastes to experiment with, and the first one I used was the chipotle paste.  But …

By Melanie Yunk; Photos by Kent Yunk [Hint: Quick garlic is here on MexGrocer.com] In a dusty field, surrounded by giant redwood trees and lots of sunshine, 108,000 people converged over 3 days to celebrate the most fragrant and pungent member of the onion family, the garlic, at the 31st Annual Garlic Festival. The yummy …

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Sopa de Lima (Lime Soup with Tortilla Strips and Chile) This is one of the lighter soups in the great sopa inventory of Mexican cooking, and I order it whenever I can find it, both in Mexico and in the American Southwest.  There are many variations of soup with tortillas throughout Mexico, and this is …