Tag: recipes
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Fry Bread Tacos
Okay, sooooo… here’s another video! My mom created this recipe after we had tried some fry bread from a roadside stand when we were traveling somewhere in New Mexico (Ruidoso?). Fry bread is a flat dough that’s deep fried to a crispy, puffy perfection. It’s similar to sweet fried breads like bunuelos, and sopaipillas, and…
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New Mexican Red Chile Sauce
On Sunday, we decided to try our hand at making New Mexican red chile sauce (chile colorado). I grew up in New Mexico, and pretty much everything is doused in either red or green chiles. My mom always made her own red chile sauce, which she froze in freezer bags, then thawed out through the…
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Cooking and not cooking
Last night I made this for dinner. Lots and lots of veggies, plus local (Pure Luck) goat’s milk feta and a lovely glass of wine = a perfect dinner. The charred carrot bruschetta came from a Martha Stewart recipe, and the raw kale salad was an attempt to recreate the lovely kale salad I had…
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Autumness
So here’s what we’ve done so far to celebrate fall: I made my mom’s chili beans with rice, which is warm and comforting and delicious. My version of the recipe is below. We took a long walk all over the city on Saturday night, and it was beautiful. Justin put up our orange twinkle lights…
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Fish-Rice
When I was growing up, I ate fish a few times a year, and it was always on Fridays during Lent. I remember not understanding why we had to eat fish… “but we’re just not supposed to eat meat, so can’t we just have cheese pizza or cheese enchiladas?” For some reason, no, it was…