My Mexican Kitchen

(This could have been titled, "Three Little Piggies".) We recently went to Morelia to shop and dine, riding with our friend, Ron...

or, "What To Do With the Leftovers". I haven't reported on our very enjoyable Christmas dinner of last week. To sum up brief...

El Camino Real in Februrary, 2004 (Note, please, that I was out and without my camera. So archive photos will have to do.) Saturday we...

...with swords and no camera*. Five years had passed since we'd last dined at Morelia's Amazonia , a Brazilian-styled restaurant,...

Just a week before our departure to San Miguel, I received an email from a friend, Doug Butler, who with his wife, Kathy, had just returned ...

On Tuesday morning, after completing our business at the American Consulate, we joined our friend, Larry at El Pegaso.  It's one of his ...

We returned to San Miguel de Allende for a brief visit in order to pick up our new passports. The whole business took perhaps 15 minutes. Mi...

Our friend Ron had bought some lamb several months ago from someone in Jalisco. It had been in his freezer since then. He suggested that he ...

Pan de Muertos, 2004 These days, it seems that at least every other Mexico food blogger has made Pan de Muertos. Here’s my story. (This...

CLOSED! Avenida Lázaro Cárdenas laces up lower and middle Pátzcuaro, from la Estacíon to the edge of Centro. A short distance above ...

Parochial Meringue Architecture Parochial Meringue Tarts San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato. Cradle of Allende and Independence. ...

I have often emphatically stated that I could see few reasons to order pasta in an Italian restaurant in Mexico . Maybe not in the U.S., eit...

Although we'd been to La Mesa de Blanca in Ziracuarétiro several times, our visit to its younger sister restaurant with the long name, ...

It started with a bargain on brisket...from that, it led to a memorable feast.

It must be the weather or creeping old age, or both. I've had a craving for the deli foods of my childhood, like kosher dill pickles, sm...

Since our first visit to Pátzcuaro, in 1991, we have become fond of Atole de Grano. To me, it represents the quintessence of simple Michoacá...

Last week, two of our ex-neighbors made a lightning visit back to our area. While we said goodbye to our former neighbors, we also welcomed...

I come from a family of picklers. My Mother is a pickler, my Uncle Irwin is a pickler; I'm a pickler too. We come from a long line of p...

Our First Time... ...in México was a crazy road trip, with 3 of us crammed into a Datsun King Cab pickup, in March, 1980.  This post is abou...

For those of you interested in the esoterica of cave explorations, I have started a blog, "We Once Were Cavers." The introduction,...