Discover and re-discover Mexico’s cuisine, culture and history through the recipes, backyard stories and other interesting findings of an expatriate in Canada
After all the excitement of the holidays, people are going back to their routines; work, school, and weeknight rituals are the norm. In the kitchen, ground meat (or ground meatless substitute) is a freezer staple that frequently mollifies the cooking-time stress, and saves the day when transformed into tasty stews, sandwich fillings, or as in this case, meatballs ... click on title for more
In Mexico, the traditional way to cook meatballs in general, is by preparing ground meat with egg and bread, similar to a mix for meatloaf, and then dropping the raw meatballs directly in caldillo, a brothy tomato-based sauce. From there, they may be finished as a soup with vegetables or, as in this case, with the iconic chipotle peppers, in a thickened caldillo ... click on title for more
My Slice of Mexico 