Discover and re-discover Mexico’s cuisine, culture and history through the recipes, backyard stories and other interesting findings of an expatriate in Canada
Last year, I shared a recipe for "la torta cubana", probably one of the most popular Mexican sandwiches, prepared with Mexican buns called teleras. Since I shared the recipe for homemade teleras in my previous post, I thought of re-posting the story and recipe for this classic Mexican delight … click on title for more
Pepito is the diminutive of Pepe, the most common nickname for the also very common Spanish name of José. Pepito is a generic name used in old time jokes involving a precocious boy and has also been adopted as the name of a steak sandwich … click on title for more
Since I am allergic to shrimp, I needed to develop a recipe of tasty vegetarian patties, a key item in "Revoltijo", a traditional dish for the Lenten season … click on title for more
The combination of flavours in this taco is just amazing, and this recipe is also appropriate if following the Christian cannons regarding abstinence from red meat during the Lenten season … click on title for more
These fish tacos originated in Ensenada, in the Mexican state of Baja California. Although technically fish tacos have been around since pre-Hispanic times, the first to fry fish for tacos were some inventive people in Ensenada in the middle of the 20th century … click on title for more
My Slice of Mexico 