mexican

Guacamole

October 24, 2011

Guacamole is one of those those ever-adaptable foods that everyone loves. Jessica and I aren’t big tomato fans, so we leave those out of our guac; sometimes we add red pepper instead, for the color. Sometimes I don’t have any jalapenos, so I put some cayenne pepper for spice. You get the idea.

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Meatless Monday: Black Bean Soup with Crispy Tortillas

March 7, 2011

Happy Monday! Today we’d like to share with you a hearty and healthy soup that serves as a main course. It’s a great meal for Meatless Monday! This black bean soup comes together so quickly and easily. Sure, you have to fry up the tortillas, but you can always skip that step and use store-bought [...]

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Steak Tacos

November 24, 2010

Wednesday is always Mexican night at our house. Well, not officially, but it seems that on Wednesdays we happen to eat tacos. It can be fish tacos, chopped meat or bean tacos, but this time it was steak tacos! And it was delicious. Tacos don’t photograph that well, but I tried my best to show [...]

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Spicy Tuna Tacos

August 10, 2010

I have been wanting to make fish tacos for a long time; it’s always what we order at Mexican restaurants! We often have Mexican-style dinners at home, but they’re usually either chopped meat-based or bean/vegetarian tacos. This recipe was slightly more work than our typical taco night, but was much more fun and delicious. Plus, [...]

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Guest Post: Vegetarian Empanadas

December 30, 2009

These were a team effort by me and Ricky Dweck. While he makes empanadas all the time, it was my first time, and his first time making vegetarian ones; usually there is chicken involved, but since we were serving these with pizza, we had to skip it. These are very satisfying and delicious, and we [...]

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Quesadillas

October 8, 2009

You can put almost anything inside two tortillas and pan-fry them. The insides get gooey and the outsides get crisp and you can cut them into tiny wedges and they will be delicious. I prepared six of these in advance, fried them up a few hours before I was ready to serve them, and then [...]

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Emergency Snack Burritos

September 17, 2009

Sometimes my refrigerator is empty and I have to go out and buy food. It gets expensive and truthfully, sometimes I just really don’t want to go outside. So I don’t. And I get very hungry/grumpy. I already had some leftover vegetarian chili, and I was at the the supermarket and became inspired; tortillas were [...]

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Vegetarian Chili

September 16, 2009

I’m not really sure how it fits in to our Middle-Eastern style of cooking, but chili is a staple at the Blanco family’s Shabbat dinner. Our mom always makes it the same way, but when I make it I like to experiment a bit. I had the perfect variety of fresh peppers on hand from [...]

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