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Recipe: Quick and Easy Homemade Taquitos

We have a serious soft spot for taquitos or rolled tacos. There's just something about their extra crunchy ends and tender meat filling with that little burst of spice and lime that gets us every t...

Making Horchata: Which Rice Is Best?

Last week's post on aguas frescas gave us a mean craving for Mexican-style horchata, a refreshing drink made with rice, cinnamon, and sugar. We decided to try making a batch at home and wound up makin...

Farmers' Market Inspiration: Aguas Frescas

It's a familiar and welcome sight at farmers' markets and street fairs around Southern California and other places with Latin American communities: the aguas frescas vendor with jars of cool, colorful...

Recipe Review: Cucumber Ice Pops With Lime & Chile

Yesterday, we asked about eating spicy food in hot weather, and some of you mentioned dishes that are both heating and cooling, such as fruit sprinkled with chile powder. We just tried a recipe for a ...

5 Tips On Finding The Best Products At Ethnic Markets

Ethnic markets are fabulous places. You can find offbeat ingredients that are integral to making authentic dishes that you can't find anywhere else. But what happens when you walk in the doors and fin...

Would You Top Your Guacamole with Melted Cheese?
Food & Wine

Interestingly, the cheese in the photo is off to the side, contained in a little ramekin. Maybe the folks at Food & Wine thought it safer not to show melted cheese all over a bowl of guacamole? Wh...

Cinco de Mayo Inspiration: 20 Mexican Dishes from Sunset

Before you start quaffing margaritas tomorrow, it might be a good idea to have a full belly, no? Sunset has a slideshow of 20 great Mexican meals, and there are some off-the-beaten-path alternative...

Good Question: What Dessert Goes with Mexican Food?

This is a dilemma we've faced before, and it isn't helped by the blah desserts we usually find on the menus of Mexican restaurants. Here's a question from Renee: I'm supposed to take dessert to a ...

Mad Men Menu: Have You Ever Tried Mexican Food?

We've made no secret about our serious love for all things "Mad Men," and we're sad to see the show's second season come to an end this Sunday. (Too soon!) Our favorite ad execs and their significant...

Weeknight Recipe: 30-Minute Chicken Posole

Posole is everything we love about southwestern cuisine. It's fresh and light, spicy and cool, crunchy and chewy: all in one bowl! With summer escapes on the brain, we offer this recipe as a quick wee...

Ingredient Spotlight: Tomatillo

A lot of people think this is an unripe green tomato, but it isn't. It certainly looks like a tomato, but it's covered with a paper husk on the outside. What is it?...

Cooking By Feel: Latin American Ingredients and Flavors

Happy Cinco de Mayo! It's May 5th, and in honor of the Mexican holiday that may actually be more important in the States than elsewhere, we're going to nevertheless look at Mexican and other Latin Ame...