Mexican Food
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Elotitos aka esquites — corn off the cob Mexican style (video)
Sure you can have traditional elotes — whole Mexican corn on the cob — or you can have elotitos aka esquitos — de-cobbed corn in a cup. And today, just for you, with you can have elotitos inside a bag of corn chips in San Luis Potosí in Central Mexico! [Video by Pi Suarez.]
Latino USA: If You Give a Toddler a Tortilla (NPR audio)
She just wants to prepare some home made flour tortillas with her baby girl just like she did with her own mom. What’s the big deal?
April Salazar longs to make her Grandma Alice’s tortillas with her daughter. It is the same tortilla recipe her grandmother’s mother made in Baja California and later in Tucson, Arizona, after she fled the Mexican Revolution. There’s just one problem: she needs the stars to align… and the cooperation of her two-year-old daughter.
Mas…Latino USA: If You Give a Toddler a Tortilla (NPR audio)
Jamaican jerk-seasoned elotes will make you say ‘BRUH!’ (video)
YouTuber BrownBelle prepares yummy-looking grilled “Mexican street corn” — aka ELOTES — spiced up with Jamaican jerk seasoning and her own chimichurri. We like the way she braids the corn husks as handles for the cornsicles. And the way she says “BRUH!”
Click here for the jerk recipe. BrownBelle is on the Feisbuk tambien.
Fast-talking narrator makes tacos de pollo rapido (video)
Chicken tacos are deliciosa comida rapida y facil de hacer en casa, says Gorka Barredo, the fastest-talking Castillian Spanish narrator ever.
Now you’re talking! Yorkshire pudding breakfast burrito (video)
Whether you’re visiting a Rub Smokehouse in Birmingham, Nottingham (say hi to the sheriff!), Beverley, or Newcastle (got coals?), this epic dish proves that breakfast is the most important meal of the day.
Does this tortilla have a message for me? (photo)
I was making late night dinner at home Monday, and got a message from the cosmos. What do you think it means?
Campout cooking: Korean carnitas tacos con kimchi (video)
Looks legit — Korean-style carnitas tacos con kimchi. All I ever got on camping trips was mosquito bites and poison ivy.
Here comes the paletero man! (Lucky Diaz lyrics music video)
Hey kids! Here comes the Mexican ice cream man! Lucky Diaz and the Family Jam Band know what’s cool. In Spanglish!
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Mas…Here comes the paletero man! (Lucky Diaz lyrics music video)
Make ‘pineapple and pork’ tacos the New Zealand way (video)
Mexican-style food products maker Tio Pablo, in New Zealand, shows us how to make “pork and pineapple tacos” using their Mayan Gold chile powder and mango salsa picante. PRO TIP: “Coriander” = cilantro.
Got tortillas? Avocados? Galaxy slime? Hydra steak? Let’s make burritos!
Mexican creator Evelyn Ramsburgh shows us how a green space alien makes burritos. Tortillas we have. Avocados ditto. The slime may be hard to source locally however.
Mezcal: It’s not just for Mexicans anymore (NPR audio)
More and more Americans are getting into mezcal, and that’s good news for a new generation of artisanal farmers and producers.
San Diego devises 10-dimensional grid to evaluate burritos (video)
At a recent Ignite San Diego session — where you get 20 slides and five minutes — presenter Scott Cole described his systematic evaluation of the burritos of San Diego using ten dimensions of awesomeness.
And that’s how they make tacos in Tijuana, Baja California (video)
If this short video featuring the preparation of tortillas and tacos in TJ doesn’t make you hungry, ask your doctor if having Don Jr. jerk your email chain is right for you.
Preparing tacos de lengua: First, get yourself some veal tongue… (video)
Preparing tacos de lengua (veal tongue) is easy if you have hundreds of dollars of state-of-the-art cooking equipment from Sammic. Still, it’s weird to look at and be sure you peel off the icky “outer membrane”. Also, we notice a distinct lack of chiles, cilantro and lime. And what is up with those mini tortillas?
Israeli app helps you choose: Sketchy tacos, pad Thai, or pizza? (video)
The Israeli smartphone app 10BIS (Give Me a Bite תן ביס) makes it easy to order food and pay online. Do you want the sketchy Bollywood gold chain tacos, pad Thai, or pizza? ¡Orale, guey!
The ‘Salsa Shop’ Mexi food chain in Amsterdam is hiring (video)
The Mexican food chain Salsa Shop, with locations around Amsterdam, is looking for a few good employees and managers. Sweet video, and the food looks legit. Nice t-shirts, too.
Worth it or not? Two tacos for $9 at Dodger Stadium (video)
When you root root root for Los Doyers, it’s better with the tacos, right? But are the tacos at Dodger Stadium in Chavez Ravine worth nine bucks for two? Jose Contreras — @LosPonies on the Twitter — reports.
In Chicago’s Pilsen barrio, the molé is made with love (video)
The Pilsen neighborhood in Chicago’s West Side — in the middle of a fierce battle against gentrification — is the center of the Windy City’s Mexican-Americam community. The recent Molé de Mayo fiesta highlighted the classic Mexican magical slow-cooked sauce of many ingredients: Molé. [Video by the students at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.]
Molé is the mero mero magical mezcla madre (video)
An energetic dreamscape captures Mexico’s passion for molé, a signature celebration dish, through the eyes of Mexican chef Enrique Olvera.
No ‘taco trucks on every corner’? We’ve got a Taco Truck Playhouse!
We could have elected Hillary and ended up with the dread TACO TRUCKS ON EVERY CORNER, but no. Resist and teach your children well with this adorable carboard Taco Truck Playhouse, just $69 right here.
Now we’re sad. We made this Taco Trucks Anthem and what did it get us? Nada!
Mas…No ‘taco trucks on every corner’? We’ve got a Taco Truck Playhouse!
Blueberry mota molé chicken tacos and kale carrot salad (video)
In this episode of Cooking With the Giggles, our munchified host Jim Jensen aka Mr. Giggles shows how molé can be medicine. SPOILER: Mota-infused butter.
Mas…Blueberry mota molé chicken tacos and kale carrot salad (video)
TV chef Chris Oh doesn’t like NYC tacos except for chapulines (video)
Bravo celeb chef Chris Oh brings his L.A. taco-loving Asian chef tastebuds to a table of (anonymous) New York tacos looking for that Los Angeles sabor. Those chapulines (grasshoppers), though!
The Food Network says ‘taco cones’ are the ‘new tacos’ (video)
Opinions are like culos; everybody has one. The Food Network is of the opinion that “taco cones” are the “new tacos,” for example, and Christopher Columbus thought he “discovered” a “new world.” Trump thinks he has the best “taco bowls.” Not so fast, you bad hombres! If you circumcise the tips of the cones, what is gonna keep all the juices inside? #fncravings, huh?
ZZ Top fan ZZ Tom recreates, eats LP cover Mexican dinner (video)
Greatest LP food photo of all time? The Mexican food porn from ZZ Top’s 1973 Tres Hombres album. Austin chef Thomas ZZ Tom Micklethwait recreated this dinner for the cameras and then ate it.
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Mas…ZZ Top fan ZZ Tom recreates, eats LP cover Mexican dinner (video)
New ‘Amigous’ cerveza from Mexico trolls Trump (video)
Mexican and U.S. brewers have reinvented Donald Trump as a gun-slinging mariachi to promote a new beer celebrating cross-border cooperation.
Pittsburgh’s Las Palmas taqueria looks muy rico in Russian (video)
A Russian voiceover lauds the tacos at Las Palmas in Pittsburgh, PA, which seems to be pretty legit, at least on Yelp. Why is the narration in Russian? Get used to it, covfefe!
How to make ‘Mexican Chicken’ (Welsh recipe video)
As we consider the ramifications of the United Kingdom’s election yesterday, let us not lose sight of the fact that the U.K. is comprised of three separate entities — England, Scotland, and Wales. In Wales, they speak and write Welsh, with all those long words and weird consonants, and also make taco casseroles.
This video from the Taco Gurú folks is a love letter to tacos
This video is a love letter to tacos from the folks behind the Mexican Taco Gurú app.
Mas…This video from the Taco Gurú folks is a love letter to tacos