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Stories in Print

Last October I began writing for the Arizona Republic, another one of those things I do but then I don’t tell people about because I’m busy doing the things not talking about the things I do. Full articles are behind a paywall, but listen, support your local journalists, please. Read the stories here: This Sonoran chef hated making menudo. Then she discovered a better way to cook tripe. I…

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#burros de machaca #culinary instructor #empanadas de ostiones #gastronomia sonorense #guaymas #mexican food #recipe #sonora

'I heard you on the radio!'

‘I heard you on the radio!’

There’s a few things more pleasurable than being interviewed by someone you listen to on a regular basis, by one of those voices on the radio leading to those occasional ‘driveway moments’ NPR hosts like to talk about during those fund drives. Those moments when you are tied to that voice, that story playing, and keep listening even though you’re home and dinner making awaits, people need hugs…

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#atole #champurrado #driveway moments #kjzz #lauren gilger #npr #phoenix #tamales

Back Online with Tucson Botanical Gardens

New year and a new series of virtual cooking classes coming at you thanks to Tucson Botanical Gardens. Right now only two classes announced, but more coming in the spring. 1/23 – 3 PM Central Time. Sonoran Codico and Galletitas de Naranja. There’s nothing more Sonoran than desert raised beef and a large bowl of soup, so why not focus the class on this Sonoran soup? Or is it a Spanish soup as it…

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#culinary instructor #tucson botanical gardens #zoom cooking school

Reading Material: 12.11.2020

I meant to insert an actual post sometime in between these reading lists, and yeah, time is relative and went out the window. So more reading material: In a school district north of Dallas, you can shop at a student run in-school grocery store with good deeds. Really puts that warm feeling in your belly. If you’re a gardener, you know what you grow will only be as good as your soil is. It has…

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#ancient recipes #blue corn mush #carla capablo #dine #georgian khachapuri #jennifer wheeler #meatball pie #mesopotamian food #navajo #soil

Reading Material: 11.25.20

It’s a long weekend. You’ll need things to read.

Thanks to Audubon, take in the glorious beauty of the Ocellated Turkey.

At Eater, The True Cost of Keeping a Restaurant Open During the Pandemic. A financial (and unemotional) look at what the true hard cash cost of running a restaurant during the pandemic and the losses incurred.

At SheKnows, Martha Stewart Shares Her Rules For Making…

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#audubon #chiltepin #crypto jewish #eater #family recipes #gastroobscura #martha stewart #native food #ocellated turkey #restaurant industry #sheknows #sugar cane #thanksgiving tips #the atlantic #the salt

Tamales, Tamales, Virtual Tamalitos

Tamales are Mexican Currency, and if you listen to what Mr. Basho (if you’re raising a bilingual child, get on his YouTube channel as he’s so very entertaining to the mini people) has to say in this song, I’m not the only one who feels this way.

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#basho and friends #culinary instructor #tamales #tamales tamales tamalitos #tucson botanical garden #zoom cooking school

Coyotas: The Very Long Video

I’m slowly improving bit by bit with every online class I do, though a long ways to go before everything is sparkles and glitz. The video is long. Very long in terms of a YouTube cooking video as it was not meant to be a YouTube cooking video, rather part of class at Tucson Botanical Garden. Which explains the long windedness, crazy waving arms and talk talk talk.

No worries as long as the…

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#coyota #dona maria #video class #villa de seris

Reading Material: 11.06.20

This used to be a semi-regular Friday post style some time ago (because I am only a semi-regular posting person), but something I greatly enjoyed. Let’s try to revive it.

From Gastro Obscura, Recreate the Ancient Egyptian Recipes Painted on Tomb Walls. Eating like an ancient Egyptian means honey and dates instead of refined sugar cane. Sign me up.

Hot, cold? With meat? No meat? Russian?…

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#ancient egyptian #border community alliance #borscht #yellow cake

Coming up: Pozole and Tamales via Zoom

Join me for my last two Zoom Cooking School classes with Tucson Botanical Gardens with two classics: pozole rojo and tamales de res sonorenses. Get the chile colorado ready, you will need it.

Due to time constraints cooking segments are pre-recorded as no one wants to spend all day with me nixtamalizing corn and cooking away. Unfortunately these two dishes do not allow for a cook along…

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November 2nd: A Cranky Note.

No, I don’t have a pan de muerto recipe for you. Or a how to on sugar skulls, or a picture my ofrenda, or anything related to el día de los muertos.

Don’t ask. I cannot help you.

Actually, I won’t help you. I refuse and abstain. Crankily so. Here’s why: just because I am Mexican does not mean I observe this particular celebration or want anything to do with it.

Until the imagery…

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#cultural stereotypes #culture #day of the dead #Mexican Culture #sonoran culture

End of Year Prep: Pear Tequila

Can you blame me if I want to give myself something to look forward to at the end of this year? Do yourself a favor, get a bottle of tequila, some pears and a big jar.

Don’t bother thinking ‘oh this would make a great gift for so and so…’ or ‘fulanita y zutanina’ in Spanish. This is a gift for you.

Pear Infused Tequlla

Difficulty: easy

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Ingredients

1 lb ripe pears

1 piloncillo cone,…

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#fulanita #infused #pass the booze #pear #tequila #things in jars #zutanita

Zoom School: Kitchen Edition

Are you sick of Zoom yet? Seems amazing something I, and many others, had barely heard of six months ago is now all of life, but there we are. If you’re curious as to what a Zoom cooking class is like, let’s explain it a bit.

Class recipes are sent out ahead of time, along with Zoom classroom invitation. I try to make my recipes as detailed as possible without being overwhelming, and like to…

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#cooking class #culinary instructor #sonoran cuisine #tucson botanical gardens #zoom school

Fall classes at Tucson Botanical Gardens

Maybe the temperature in Arizona will drop into fall territory some day, however unlikely that seems right now, but the kitchen is switching to fall food, like or not.

If you’re ready for fall cooking classes though Tucson Botanical Gardens, you know just how fun those Zoom classes are, then here’s the fall line up.

09/19/20, 3:00 – 4:30 PST – A Sonoran Breakfast. There’s no better way to…

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#cooking classes #culinary instructor #tucson botanical gardens #virtual cooking classes #virtual workshop

Pickle Party: Escabeche

It’s been a little while since this Facebook live class took place, but what is the meaning of time anyway? If you’re not interested in following the hot packed pickle process as described in a previous escabeche post, here is a simplified version in video and recipe form.

Chiles en Escabeche

Servings: 10 ea.

Time: 1 hour

Difficulty: medium

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Ingredients

1 pound serrano or…

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#cooking live #escabeche #japalenos #serranos #unintentional commedy

Virtual Classes @ TBG

I am so happy to be able to teach again at Tucson Botanical Gardens via virtual classes. I believe the best way to establish acceptance and love of a culture is to experience it first hand, by travel, by cuisine, by art. These classes help me bring bits of Mexican and Sonoran culture and gastronomy to you.

Classes will be online via Zoom and will consist of a mixture of live and pre-recorded…

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#culinary instructor #tucson botanical garden #virtual cooking classes

Hosted by BCA: Pozole de Trigo

I’ve been so lucky over the last two and a half years to be able to be part of Border Community Alliance, a Tubac, Arizona, based non-profit invested in developing a better understanding of the borderland region. If you’re not familiar with that term, it refers to that bit of land, stretching about 100 miles north and south of…

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#culinary instructor #gastronomia sonorense #pozole de trigo #Sonoran food #soup #wheat is authentic #wheat pozole

Tune in: Pozole de Trigo 5/15/20

Mark your calendars for May 15th, 2020, set aside some time in that week and watch a video presentation of one Sonora’s least known soups: Pozole de Trigo.

Traditionally made on May 15th, known in the Catholic world as Día de San Isidro Labrador, after Isidro de Merlo y Quintana, a farmer born in Madrid in the 1070s. This kindhearted farmer is honored in parts of the northern Mexican state of…

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#gastronomia sonorense #pozole de trigo #san isidro labrador #sonoran cuisine #virtual workshop #wheat pozole

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