by Brian | Feb 11, 2020 | Recipes
From the recent hit cookbook Oaxaca comes this “mom dish.” This is dish that you would have waiting for you on a Wednesday afternoon when you come home from school. Golly, I wish I were back in school in Oaxaca. Oaxaca is considered the culinary capital of Mexico. The...
by Brian | Jun 25, 2018 | Recipes
Southerners have Fried Green Tomatoes. In Palestine, they have Shakshuka. Here author and restauranteur Rawia Bishara gives her very interesting spin on this dish. There are tomatoes, but also tomatillos and poblanos. It’s Palestine-meets-Mexico via the United States....
by Brian | Apr 30, 2018 | Recipes
Last week I reviewed The L.A. Cookbook. Suzi and I had just returned from ten days in Sicily where we encountered seafood, artichokes and pistachios. So, in The L.A. Cookbook, when I saw a recipe for Pistachio Mole, well, it had to be a message from God. We made it...
by Brian | Mar 1, 2018 | Recipes, TBT
This dressing is lovely on salads, particularly if you “protein” the salad up with the suggested chunks of poultry. Or, just applied to a wedge of lettuce and topped with that ever impressive blue cheese! Here, for example, is a Tomatillo Salad Dressing...
by Brian | Jun 21, 2016 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes
What can you do with a tomatillo? Eat it, of course. Either raw, in a salsa, or cooked, in a salsa. Or baked with chicken. Look at this idea for Braised Chicken with Tomatillos and Jalapenos. So you eat them. But drink them? Last year I posted an idea for a...
