More Fun with Weeds for Breakfast: Purslane Fritatta
I think we all know now that yes, purslane is a weed and yes, it's loaded with nutrition. I don't think everyone is on board with how delicious it is....
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Let's Make a Weed Fritatta! (No! Not That Kind!)
When I first started gardening, quelites were one of the first things I was curious about. I'd been told that in Nahuatl that the word meant "edible green" so the...
Slow Cooker Mushrooms with Domingo Rojo Beans and Brown Rice
I was given a lot of mushrooms and they were spending too much time in my fridge, so I decided to do a little test with my new slow cooker....
Don't Share This With an Italian: Hominy, Domingo Rojo and Pancetta
While Italian food is surely one of the best cuisines, Italians can be a little closed off to innovation. This isn't so much of a bastardization of their delicious food...
Pinole: One of the Great Mexican Treats You Might Not Know About
Yunuen from Xoxoc was very excited when she told me about a special pinole (peen-oh-lay) made from heirloom blue corn. I wasn’t 100 percent sure what to do with it...
Buyer Beware! Not All Clay Pots Are Equal!
My recent habit has been to make a tomato sauce with fermented green chiles and then poach an egg in it, via a small clay cazuela. I've been using my...
7 Vegetarian Ways to Enjoy One Pot of Beans
Yes, there is some work and time involved with cooking a bag of Rancho Gordo heirloom beans. As long as you're cooking, cook the whole pound. It lasts from five...
Beans on Toast Revisited
I don't have much to say about this except I remember living in London in 1981, being very poor and then introduced to British beans on toast. It was fine...
Breakfast Beans: Santa Maria Pinquitos in Tomato Sauce.
Santa Maria Pinquitos with a wee bit of crumbled breakfast sausage, some tomato sauce, oregano Indio and farmer cheese. I'm trying to use meat more as a flavoring. The beans...
Happy Hippie Breakfast
I've been on a Yellow Indian Woman kick these days. They're such a delicious, dense yet soft bean and they have a superior broth. You can have them in a...
Breakfast at the Hacienda
I just came back from co-hosting our last Beans Tour (The Rancho Gordo-Xoxoc Food and Agriculture Tour and Workshops) in Hidalgo. I'm sad to say goodbye to this project but...
Breakfast of Champions
I was visiting my friends Maria and Isidro in their little village called Tepehuaje, right on the Lago Chapala and the first morning they asked if I wanted to join...