Salsa verde = green sauce. The name is as simple as this recipe. The name may be simple but the complexity of the flavor is not. Roast. Puree. Pour. Eat. Roasting tomatillos, onion, garlic and jalapeno changes and deepens the flavors of these vegetables and aromatics. It softens the harsh edges of the jalapeno and […]
Easy Slow Cooker Pork Verde
My slow cooker and I have developed a really nice relationship. I fill it up, it gives me tasty food a few hours later. If only all relationships were so easy. This pork verde recipe is so simple, but so good. By the time the pork comes out of the slow cooker it is […]
Chorizo Stuffed Shrimp
This is one of those recipes that will really impress your guests, and only you know how easy it was. Of course, you will SAY the recipe took hours to perfect, and you learned how to make these Chorizo Stuffed Shrimp in the kitchen of a famous chef! I won’t tell on you. While this […]
Tamale Pie
Ever have a week that you wish you could start over? I desperately want to go back to last Monday morning, before I had to make the decision to start my mother on hospice care. The 14 year battle with lung cancer is coming to its conclusion. It is not over yet, but there comes […]
Raspberry Dessert Tamales
This year I did something I have wanted to do for years. I made sweet tamales! If you do not live in an area with a large Mexican population, than you probably did not even know sweet tamales even existed. I first made them with my daughter’s Godmother Victoria, who is Mexican-American, a few years […]