Discover and re-discover Mexico’s cuisine, culture and history through the recipes, backyard stories and other interesting findings of an expatriate in Canada
I have received a couple of comments related to a series in honour of my late mom, from people who have lived in the Mexican state of Coahuila, more specifically, in Agujita, my mom's birthplace. One of them lamented that the posts were not written in Spanish, so I decided to translate the three-part series. ... click on title 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
May is Asian Heritage month in Canada and Asian-American and Pacific-Islander Heritage month in the US and, since 2019 is a pig year according to the Chinese Zodiac, I am sharing my grandma's recipe for Ham Onigiri … click on title for more
My Slice of Mexico 