Chalco Style Chicken with Cream Cheese Sauce

Chalco Style Chicken with Cream Cheese Sauce

Growing up in Mexico City, whenever there was a family daytrip to see the Popocatepetl and Iztaccihuatl volcanoes in Central Mexico, it was our custom to stop by the then town of Chalco (now a city) and, like many other tourists, buy local dairy products from Cremería Chalco, which nowadays has a restaurant. When browsing through their menu, I was not surprised to find several buttery or creamy dishes, and others dressed with cheese sauces; the recipe in this post was inspired by an item on their menu ... click on title for more

Japanese Sticks – Palitos Japoneses

Japanese Sticks – Palitos Japoneses

I am lucky enough to be the keeper of my mom’s recipe notebooks. In my previous post, I talked about the pick-up sticks game Mikado™, which is also the name in Europe of Pocky™, the Japanese biscuits shaped as sticks.  That made me notice this recipe in one of my mom's notebooks, called, no less, "Palitos Japoneses" - "Japanese Sticks" ... click on title for more