For those lucky people who scored flour and a few envelopes of instant yeast before they disappeared from the store shelves, this is a basic recipe for homemade Mexican style buns … click on title for more
Homemade Buns – Bolillos and Teleras
PEPITO – Of Jokes and Sandwiches
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
A Quick Menu, Second Course – BBQ Jackfruit Sandwich
In this post, I am sharing my recipe for the second course of my Quick Menu at home, a BBQ sandwich; to list only cupboard items, and to offer a vegetarian option for the Christian Lenten season, I used canned young green jackfruit instead of cooked, shredded beef … click on title for more
A Quick Menu, First Course – Bean Soup
In my previous post, I talked about a quick menu at a restaurant in Mexico, consisting of a bowl of comforting bean soup, and a BBQ sandwich, and how it would be easy to adapt and reproduce at home, with non-perishable ingredients and pantry staples. In this post, I am sharing my recipe for the first course … click on title for more
A Quick Menu
In the midst of the pandemic, I am longing for shopping for lots of fresh ingredients for my posts, but in the meantime, I have been thinking of a few helpful recipes that can be cooked with canned and non-perishable items, and staples already in the pantry … click on title for more
My Slice of Mexico 