These buns are perfect to enjoy with a salad or a soup, use for tortas (Mexican sandwiches) or, particularly, to sop up a delicious Mexican sauce ... click on title for more
Extra Crusty Buns (Birote Style)
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Birotes – Guadalajara’s Mainstay Bread
Birotes salados are crusty buns with no flavourings or aromatics (other than salt in some cases), but with a unique chewy crumb, which are said to be possible to bake exclusively in the Mexican state of Jalisco and, even more specifically, the region around its capital city, Guadalajara … click on title for more
Backyard Story – Purple Corn
This is a fable of what not to do when choosing seed for planting, exemplified by my experience with purple corn last year … click on title for more
Football Sunday – Snack Time!
Snacking while watching a Sunday game is a little bit of a sport on itself, and Mexicans enjoy all sorts of foodstuffs while cheering for their favourite teams … click on title for more
Mexican Sorbet – Nieve de Garrafa
Nieve means snow, and garrafa is the Spanish word for a tall container, used primarily to hold liquids, but in this context, it is the name given to the metal tubs where a sorbet base (liquid) is first poured; this garrafa snuggly sits in a wooden barrel with salty ice to freeze the liquid … click on title for more
My Slice of Mexico 