Tag: Food
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A Birthday in Mexico
Why not start out your birthday with cupcakes right? Every three-year-old deserves to eat cupcakes for breakfast on their birthday while ripping wrapping paper from his stash of gifts. Pasteleria La Migaja (Crumble Cakes) fashioned the most marvelous swashbuckler cupcakes a little boy could ask for. The pirate creations were devoured by the birthday boy,…
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Mexican Inspired Popcorn
Let’s talk spice. You know…zing, zest, pizzazz. Tajín is a company in Mexico that produces a tangy, spicy “fruit seasoning” powder (salsa en polvo) consisting of chile peppers, salt and dehydrated lime juice. You can find this stuff everywhere in Mexico. I mean EVERYWHERE and it is most certainly a staple down here so it only seems…
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The Exploration of Foods in Playa Del Carmen
I won’t say that moving to Playa Del Carmen was much of a culture shock but I will say that everyday things I am accustomed to in the United States definitely seem different. Most people do not embrace change easily or they have a hard time adjusting in an environment unlike what they are used…
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Gobble A Green Thanksgiving for 2014
[edit November 24, 2014] Before I begin an article on Thanksgiving let me clear up any confusion about what you may have been told about the gut-filling holiday that began in 1621. Poor documentation of the first holiday allows for people to speculate its meaning and traditions. I prefer to accept a more modern explanation…
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Baltimore BBQ
Since living in eclectic Fell’s Point located in downtown Baltimore, every morning I step out on my front stoop to the smell of fresh cooked cinnamon bread assaulting my nostrils. At first I assumed it was the local breakfast diner across the street. And then it happened. I spotted the perpetrator. A bread factory that takes up…
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DIY Jerky from the Meat Shop
I found a bang’n deal at the Goodwill the other day I couldn’t pass up. There on the shelf sat a $7 dollar newish dehydrator. I brought it home, cleaned it thoroughly and christened it with my first food: beef jerky. Although, I mainly bought the thing to dry my garden herbs I was excited…
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Do you love potato chips??? Of course you do unless you’re some kind of freak or something.
Wondering what to do with that green, awkward-looking kale leaf? Whether it’s growing in your garden or staring at you from across the grocery store, kale can be transformed into the tastiest and healthiest chip you can imagine. Most weekends, I shop at my local farmers market in downtown Phoenix and started noticing people selling…
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