Scrambled Eggs with Some Refried Beans
Sometimes I think this blog should be called Cooking with Beans and Eggs. Having six chickens, I tend to eat a lot of eggs and owning Rancho Gordo, beans are...
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A Quick Thought on Cooking Bitter Greens
Still speaking of greens and clay pots and all the rest, I wanted to add that I like to take a green like dandelions and run my finger up the...
Cooking with Clay No. 13: A Cazuela from Rancho de la Virgen in Oaxaca
I wrote about this pot when I had just returned from a trip to Oaxaca last year. The potters come from Rancho de la Virgen, near the city of Pinotepa...
Books I Like: Street Food of Mexico and La Cocina Mexicana
I have a scary number of Mexican cookbooks. And there are a scary number of books out there celebrating, documenting, glorifying and sometimes unintentionally misinforming. If you're really interested, there...
Ham and Yellow Eye Soup
Part of the fun of my job is meeting chefs and seeing what they do with my children once they leave my custody. Chef Jason Green of Albequerque's Grove Cafe...
Chilate de Pollo
This last weekend it seemed time to use my few costeño chiles from Oaxaca and I made Chilate de Pollo from Diana Kennedy's seminal Oaxaca al Gusto. Despite being beautiful,...
Canela: Mexican Soft Cinnamon
Why bother with Mexican cinnamon? It's really very different. The bark you get in most spice jars is cassia and it's very astringent and sharp. Canela is mellower and earthy....
Banana Vinegar: An Incredible Bath for Good Tomatoes
A lot of people are intrigued by our banana vinegar but are at a loss on how to use it. I use it like I would any good vinegar but...
California Beanfield Report
This might be your dinner one day soon! The beanfields here in California are doing very well this year and we're crossing our fingers for a huge, healthy crop. If...
Spanish for Beginners
If you work here at Rancho Gordo, one of the perks is free Spanish lessons. Taught by our own Julio Soriano, this week's lesson is particularly grand. Find a friend...
Beans from Ecuador
Wine Forest's Connie Green recently spent some time in Ecuador and was kind enough to bring me back the beans she found there. She admitted that it wasn't a great...
MesAmerica: Four Days Incredible Days in Mexico
photo ©Docsconz.comAlthough it's a little like taking coals to Newcastle, I just got back from Mexico City where I told our story to 500 food visionaries and thousands of culinary...