One of my favorite Mexican dishes is pork carnitas. These “little bits” of cooked pork are delicious folded into a warm corn tortilla. Ideally, cubes of pork are slow roasted so that they’re tender inside and a little crispy on the exterior. But, lazy me, I just throw hunks of pork shoulder in my slow … Continue reading
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Chorizo and eggs with black beans
I don’t know why I haven’t been cooking more Mexican food at home, but when I remembered I had chorizo, the spicy fresh Mexican sausage (not to be confused with the cured Spanish kind), in the freezer I decided to get crackin’. Eggs that is. Chorizo and eggs is a wonderful breakfast dish, but I had … Continue reading
Quesadilla
I recently enjoyed an afternoon in the Sergeantsville area including lunch at the The Café in Rosemont. (Their Wednesday Global Dinners always sound wonderful to me, when I read the menus.) The excursion started with a desire to finally visit Maresca’s butcher shop, which I’d heard and read about for years. My friend and I stopped … Continue reading
Turkey Chili
I recently bought ground turkey at Trader Joe’s. It was shockingly lean, so I had to add olive oil, and then add a little more, as I browned it with the vegetables to make this chili. Which is fine, of course, I’d rather add olive oil than have a lot of poultry fat in the dish. I … Continue reading
Cajeta
This is the happy result of having heavy cream in my refrigerator I needed to use up. I made cajeta! Yes, it’s usually made with goat milk and, frankly, not with cream. So I mixed some milk in with my post-expiration-date heavy cream, which I had never opened and which smelled fine. I added the tiny … Continue reading
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