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Shrimp Cocktail, Veracruz Style

June 21, 2024 by admin Leave a Comment

Shrimp Cocktail Veracruz-style in a glass goblet

An ultra-refreshing, healthful cocktail that will make you feel like you’re on vacation at the beach. Enjoy it as a main course on a hot day or (in smaller portions) as the first course of a very special meal.

Filed Under: Appetizers, Main Dishes Tagged With: cilantro, coctail, lime, seafood, shrimp, Veracruz

Stuffed Green Bell Peppers

June 9, 2024 by admin Leave a Comment

Stuffed green bell peppers

Cut into a stuffed pepper and pick up—in addtion to a slice of green pepper—a forkful of the meat-and-rice filling doused with a bit of tomato sauce and cheese, and savor everything all at once. A classic American version of this deliciously satisfying all-in-one dish.

Filed Under: Main Dishes, One-dish Meals Tagged With: all-in-one, beef, comfort food, green pepper, ground beef, one-dish meal, stuffed chiles

Mexican Shrimp Soup (Caldo de camarón)

December 27, 2023 by admin Leave a Comment

Mexican Shrimp Soup - Caldo de camarón mexicano

This flavor-packed shrimp soup, despite its ease of preparation and (mostly) ordinary ingredients, actually does full justice to the main ingredient. In Mexico it is considered one of a handful of dishes that are able to “bring the dead back to life”—which means easing the suffering caused by anything from a broken heart or just…

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Filed Under: Main Dishes, Soups Tagged With: guajillo peppers, shrimp, soup

Rustic Campfire-style Mexican Carne Asada

May 27, 2023 by admin Leave a Comment

Robin: Though you’ll often see recipes for carne asada that call for skirt or flank steak that is grilled and then sliced against the grain of the meat into succulent strips of goodness, that´s not what this recipe is about. This is a little humbler—though no less delicious!—style of carne asada, made with thinly sliced…

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Filed Under: Main Dishes Tagged With: beef, cactus, carne asada, nopales, steaks, tacos

American Goulash

May 8, 2023 by admin Leave a Comment

American Goulash

Robin: Though they share a name, what’s commonly known as “goulash” in the United States has little resemblance to the dish of the same name in Central Europe. Both are stew-like and feature meat as a main ingredient, but that’s about where the similarity ends. Comparing American goulash to Hungarian goulash seems a bit like…

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Filed Under: Main Dishes, Pasta Tagged With: comfort food, goulash, ground beef, macaroni, one-dish meal

Easy Beef and Noodles

September 25, 2021 by admin Leave a Comment

Comforting Beef and Noodles

Midwestern comfort food at its best: chunks of tender,slow-cooked beef in thickened broth with pasta.

Filed Under: Main Dishes, Pasta Tagged With: beef, comfort food, Midwest, noodles, pasta

Chiles en Nogada (Stuffed Poblano Chiles in Creamy Walnut Sauce)

August 30, 2020 by admin Leave a Comment

Chiles en Nogada

Robin: Some traditional, labor-intensive dishes seem almost not worth the effort to make, and we end up having them more for nostalgia’s sake than for the dishes themselves. The quintessential Mexican classic Chiles en Nogada is not like that; it definitely would be worth the work even if took twice the time to prepare. Chiles en Nogada…

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Filed Under: Main Dishes Tagged With: celebration foods, chiles en nogada, poblano peppers

Celebration Picadillo (Meat and Dried Fruits Hash)

August 30, 2020 by admin Leave a Comment

Picadillo Especial for Chiles en Nogada

Robin: Picadillo is made in slightly different versions all over Latin America, and usually it consists of ground or minced meat cooked with onions, tomatoes, and perhaps other vegetables. It is seasoned a little differently depending on the cook’s location and inclination. This particular version includes a variety of dried fruits and nuts that make…

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Filed Under: Gluten-Free, Main Dishes Tagged With: picadillo, stuffed chiles

Pork Chops a la Veracruzana

August 20, 2019 by admin Leave a Comment

Robin: Veracruz port, on Mexico’s gulf coast, was for many decades the main hub through which people and goods passed on their way between the land of the Aztecs and other continents. It didn’t take long for resourceful cooks to adapt techniques and ingredients native to Mexico with those of Europe, Africa, and even the…

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Filed Under: Main Dishes Tagged With: pork, pork chops, Veracruz

Peruvian Pumpkin Stew (Locro de zapallo)

August 10, 2019 by admin Leave a Comment

Peruvian Pumpkin Stew - Locro de Zapallo

Robin: Peru is a great country for comfort foods. It is, after all, the birthplace of the potato, a tuber that is high on most people’s list of soothing ingredients. Inhabitants of the Andes are also the creators of many one-pot, carb-rich meals, and what could be cozier than that? A locro is a warming,…

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Filed Under: Main Dishes, Vegetarian Tagged With: locro, peruvian, pumpkin, stew, zapallo

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