Discover and re-discover Mexico’s cuisine, culture and history through the recipes, backyard stories and other interesting findings of an expatriate in Canada
December 12 is observed as the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe in the Catholic calendar. During this year, I have encountered representations of Our Lady several times, and I am sharing images of those moments in this post … click on title for more
In this and my two previous posts, I am sharing some of my mom’s stories and recipes from her childhood in Agujita, a small mining town in the Mexican state of Coahuila ... click on image for more
In this and a few other posts, I would like to share some of my mom's stories from her childhood in Agujita, a small mining town in the Mexican state of Coahuila; when I myself was a child, I heard these and many other anecdotes, sitting with my mom in her kitchen, which filled my imagination with picturesque scenes of Mexico ... click on title for more
Another one of my new-to-me crops this year was salsola (Salsola komarovii), a potherb originally from Japan; it caught my attention in the seed catalogue because it looked a lot like the Mexican potherb known as romeritos (Suaeda spp), which grows mostly around the salty lake areas outside Mexico City … click on title for more
Homegrown carrots are just the crunchiest, juiciest and most flavourful of all. Back in April, I started a patch of carrots with what I described as a "cornucopia of many varieties of carrot seed", with the conviction that this measure would increase germination success rates … click on title for more
My Slice of Mexico 