The last place I expected to find a good recipe for Cochinita Pibil, was in the comments of an English-language website that recaps Spanish-language telenovelas. If you’re asking yourself how I wound up reading the comments on that site, I have both an easy and a more complicated answer for you. The easy answer is [...]
Crockpot Cochinita (Puerco) Pibil: Yucatecan-style Pork with a Telenovela Twist
June 14, 2012 by · 3 Comments
Reinventing Chiles en Nogada Soup-Style
April 26, 2012 by · 8 Comments
Deconstruct: To break something down into its component parts. For a recipe, this means looking at the recipe and determining the essential ingredients – the ones that make the dish unique, satisfying, and flavorful. Deconstruction is one of my favorite ways to reinvent a dish when I want to experience its flavors AND tailor the [...]
Crock Pot Pork Carnitas with Cabbage Lime Garnish
January 26, 2012 by · 6 Comments
Cubes of pork shoulder marinated over-night in milk and quartered oranges. A 5-gallon pot with pounds of lard and the pork chunks heated to the brink of boiling, and stirred every so often by a 3-foot, home-made wooden paddle. Pork that is extremely tender, has a slight crisp to the outside, and can easily broken [...]
