Discover and re-discover Mexico’s cuisine, culture and history through the recipes, backyard stories and other interesting findings of an expatriate in Canada
In Mexico, fruits and snacks topped with combinations of chili powder, candies, sauces, and all sorts of other various ingredients are called "locos" - "crazy". My harvest of mini watermelon and cucumber was perfect for some crazy snacks ... click on title for more
My garden has been buzzing with activity for the last two (sunny) days: squirrels, bunnies, birds, and bugs big and small, are all over scavenging, digging, hunting or simply, eating. In this post, I have tried to identify a few of the flying insects, from photos I took yesterday ... click on title for more
It is always a fun surprise to snap a photo of my backyard harvest, and then see how different it looks from similar pictures taken on the same day, from one year to another ... click on title for more
Pápalo is a pre-Hispanic herb originally from Mexico; one of the best known applications of pápalo is as a required topping to prepare a cemita, a sandwich created in the Mexican state of Puebla, named after the bun with which it is traditionally prepared. People in Puebla will declare that, without cemita buns and pápalo leaves, there is no cemita sandwich ... click on title for more
I had been very busy transplanting seedlings from pots to my garden beds, but that process came to a halt yesterday, as I found myself busy bringing some of the most tender plants closer to the house for shelter, and protecting some of the already planted ones from the inclement weather ... click on title for more
