Mexican Kitchen Archives - Focus On Mexico

Let’s Go to the Market

One of the many benefits of Lakeside living are the numerous markets along the north shore. Whether you're looking for fresh vegetables and fruit, chicken, fish, seafood, to fresh cinnamon rolls, tacos, pizza or quality organic products or clothing, jewelry, and home decor and more, you will find them at one of the area's many markets several days of the week. Monday On Monday the large open air market in Chapala features thousands of items at some of the most economical prices in the area. On Monday you will also find a market featuring quality prepared foods at the Sunrise Restaurant in … [Read more...]

Carnitas a gift from Michoacan to the whole World

By Tere Ruiz, Lake Chapala Mexico Mexican cuisine has a large variety of delicious dishes. In fact, Mexican cuisine is such an integral part of the country's centuries-old cultural traditions that the government believes it should be included on UNESCO's list of Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity, and have asked for international recognition for the country's cuisine. There are several things that have to come together to define what is cooked in different areas or states of Mexico, and how it is cooked. The first thing that defines a Mexican dish is the … [Read more...]

The Variety of Mexican Food

Mexican food based on Aztecs and Mayan cooking traditions combined with culinary trends introduced by Spanish colonists, is known for its intense and varied flavors, colorful decoration, and variety of spices and vegetables (green peppers, broccoli, cauliflower, radishes and many more). Mexican Cuisine has become recognized among the world's greatest cuisines. Corn has been Mexico’s traditional staple grain diet for some 4,000 years, but today, rice is equally important. Beans are another staple of the diet and they provide the necessary protein. Chilies (of so many different varieties and … [Read more...]

How to Ripen Avocados

Our test results! We have a Hass avocado tree in our yard. It produces a ton of avocados and, because of that, we recently ran our own experiment on how best to ripen them. We haven’t always been happy with the brown-bag results that seem to be the most popular, but you need a lot of avocados to test and we weren't willing to give up our store-bought ones on experiments! :-D So here’s what we did. We picked all the fruit at the same time and used each one of these suggestions to see which did the best job. I think you’ll be surprised at the results. We certainly were: Wrap in … [Read more...]