Carne Adobada
What is carne adobada? It is marinated pork, beef, chicken, lamb or even goat. It is spicy, vinegary, smoky and a tiny bit sweet. It can go into a taco, a burrito, an enchilada, top a tostada, stuff a...
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Cider-Brined Pork Chops with an Apple-Orange-Vegetable Topping
Such a grown up looking dish Sometimes a Mexican girl just gets tired of Mexican food. So, tonight, I turned to an American stand-by for comfort- pork chops. This is a good meal for when you have a...
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Brined Pork Tenderloin in a Mushroom Red Wine Sauce (7 points)
At dinner tonight, the only thing my husband said was, “Mmm,” and “Oh, mmm”. So, this is a pretty amazing dinner. Brining the tenderloin makes it so unbelievably tender, juicy and flavorful. The sauce...
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Chile Verde Enchiladas and Burritos (5-8 points)
These humble little burritos are exactly why I started cooking in the first place. When I moved from California to Philadelphia, I started cooking to connect to home, to that intersection of Mexican...
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Chile Verde (Pork, Chicken or Vegetarian) 4 points
This was one of the first recipes I posted but I never got around to photographing it. This rustic tomatillo and bean dish needed an old, colonial-type background. I decided that the church doors down...
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