My Mexican Kitchen

After a fairly long lapse, we were ready for a visit to our favorite restaurant in the Pátzcuaro area, la Marisquería "La Güera". ...

We were in Pátzcuaro's alluring Mercado Soriana yesterday morning, picking up a few necessities (eg, 12 bottle cartons of Cerveza Nocheb...

...of Pátzcuaro's mercado In an effort to revitalize my sense of culinary derring do, seasoned with a dash of risk, we once again went...

We live in a region of rotating population. The Michoacanos go to the " otro lado ", that is, the United States, to work and earn ...

A little while ago, I had a bad dream in which I was invited to eat at Peter Luger's Steakhouse , in Brooklyn, NY. It was my first visi...

From late last winter, this post has been slowly aging in its cyber-cellar, until now it is ready for publication. Yesterday, near Pátzcuar...

We have a bottle of locally purchased salad dressing. (No, we didn't buy it. Our departing neighbor gave it to us.) It's labeled, ...

After many years, I think I've finally overcome my fascination with menudo, and the thrall in which it held me. Let's face it. To e...

The terrible truth is that I am a coffee addict. I recently had my suspicions confirmed when I took and online quiz. (See below) My years I...

Our isolated ranchito is well served by numerous motorized vendors that supply our needs. There's the gas trucks with their jingles and...

(Even though they're not my kitchens, I'll be reporting on interesting eating places here.) Yesterday, Rose Calderone, Susan and I h...

Ever since we lived up in the hills south of Pátzcuaro, we'd drive into town past a roadside food wagon that advertised "Comida Chi...

(I've slowed down a bit posting here, as we were away for 9 days, and our cooking "audience" had dwindled to one.) But yesterd...

Even before we'd arrived in the Pátzcuaro area in late September, 2005, I'd read of the "R.O.M.E.O.s.", an informal group ...

El Monstruo Verde has been dead since last Autumn, when the chapulines used it as a place for their frenzied orgies of mating, only taking t...

Three's a charm : In the last week, I've eaten Tiritas de Pescado three times; one in Zihuatanejo, at La Sirena Gorda; once in Tronc...

Yesterday, Monday, Februrary 5, 2007 marked a brief reign of terror. Innocent vegetables, rudely torn from Madre Tierra , were trimmed and s...