My Mexican Kitchen

While writing about our Zihuatanejo breakfast experiences, I decided to make what I consider a proper version of Huevos Poblanos. Several po...

Zihuatanejo offers visitors eating options from very cheap to very high end. Call me codo if you wish, but I prefer not to risk my retiremen...

¡Experimental! While playing around with Google Maps , I started a custom map. On it, I added locations and de...

Yes! I have another blog! Actually, there is yet a third blog, supposedly on travel, but it hasn't been updated in over three years. It...

The Black Radishes arrived in stealth by night, then at daybreak, sought cover in a nest of verduras to the side of the puesto de Los Padill...

The recipe for this is open to many variations, depending on custom and individual taste. What I'm saying, is don't expect much in t...

I admit, I really hate writing out recipes on the blog. But since I more or less promised recipes for Angel Biscuits and Country Sausage Gra...

One of my favorite food books is the long out-of-print, Better Than Store-Bought , by Helen Witty and Elizabeth Schneider Colchie. More than...

Although I am not a son of the South, I spent 44 years in the border state of Missouri and in the deeper South state of Arkansas. Those ye...

Lately, seems like nearly every other with it food blog does grilled pizza. It's been covered thoroughly on cooking sites as well as bl...

I have just learned on the Lonelyplanet.com/thorntree Get Stuffed Branch that Condé Nast Publishers have killed off the grand old GOURMET...

Being a red-blooded American man, I'd never been to a baby shower before. But, this is Mexico, and things are different. (Red-bloode...

Meatballs and spaghetti: what a standard cliché of Italian-American cooking. Yes, it's truly a cliché, but I love a good culinary c...

We got the grill out today and put it through its paces. It had been neglected for a long time. It performed admirably. Our starter consiste...

Plaza Luis Cabrera, Colonia Roma Norte Back in late April, we'd planned to stay a few nights in Mexico City, enroute to a visit to p...

For years, the People's Guide To Mexico was my Mexico "bible". One of the memorable sections of the book described serious Sun...