This is the last week in Mexico on our virtual world food tour so I had the kids in our “food appreciation” classes grinding again in the molcajete to make one of our favorite foods, this spicy Mayan pumpkin seed dip. Well, I’m not sure the Mayans actually made this dip. But they may well […]
Now it can be revealed: One of the most popular things we make is deceptively simple and doesn’t even look edible. It’s this humble dip made with toasted pumpkin seeds and cooked tomatoes, flavored to a fiery pitch with a roasted habanero pepper. We always make it in a Mexican molcajete, the traditional mortar made […]
The food of Mexico never ceases to amaze, or perhaps it’s the way the Mexican people have constructed a cuisine that seems to make a great deal out of very little. Americans raised on big, fat burritos, heaping platters of fajitas and giant pitchers of frozen margaritas would be shocked to learn that the real […]
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