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Cookbook Archives - The Mija Chronicles
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Be kind, ask permission! All photos on this site were taken by me, unless otherwise noted. If you'd like to use a photo, please email me. Follow me on Twitter. A Taco Crawl of Sunset Park, Brooklyn. When I began testing recipes for my cookbook, lots of people asked whether I could find the right Mexican ingredients in New York. When I said yes, they said, “Are you buying them in Sunset Park? Eat Mexico the cookbook, now available for pre-order. Mija is Lesley Téllez. And just wrote a cookbook. Read my ol...
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Learning To Cook Archives - The Mija Chronicles
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Be kind, ask permission! All photos on this site were taken by me, unless otherwise noted. If you'd like to use a photo, please email me. Follow me on Twitter. Learning To Cook Archive. How to peel walnuts for chiles en nogada, 19th-century nun style. Calling all experts: How do you cook maguey flowers? Five truths about tamales. The more I learn about Mexican food, the more I realize I’ll never know enough. So many things just simply aren’t written down: recipes, techniques, the names of regional ch...
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Uncategorized Archives - The Mija Chronicles
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Be kind, ask permission! All photos on this site were taken by me, unless otherwise noted. If you'd like to use a photo, please email me. Follow me on Twitter. Feliz Año and Happy New Year. My second love, after my husband. The chocolates at Que Bo! How much do things cost in Mexico City? This was my biggest question before I moved here. So far, it’s been cheaper than Dallas, but not “we can live like kings! A bisquet, a basket. My current favorite morning/afternoon/whenever snack in Mexico City: Hot bis...
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Traditional Mexican Food Archives - The Mija Chronicles
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Be kind, ask permission! All photos on this site were taken by me, unless otherwise noted. If you'd like to use a photo, please email me. Follow me on Twitter. Traditional Mexican Food Archive. Rustic quesadillas de xocoyol, in the Estado de México. How dried corn becomes masa, or nixtamal. Mexico City chef Margarita Carrillo on her new restaurant, Turtux, and saving forgotten tamale recipes. Today’s post marks an occasional series I’m launching on this blog called Tastemakers. It’ll be a series of Q...
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Streets & Markets Archives - The Mija Chronicles
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Be kind, ask permission! All photos on this site were taken by me, unless otherwise noted. If you'd like to use a photo, please email me. Follow me on Twitter. Streets and Markets Archive. A photo tribute to Mexican corn. The glory of the Mexican breakfast. A Queens gem: Inthira Thai Market in Woodside. Until yesterday, I’d never smelled a handful of kaffir lime leaves. The ones I smelled were frozen, sheathed in a little plastic bag at the Inthira Thai Market in Woodside. Event through plastic t...Tlaco...
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Reflections Archives - The Mija Chronicles
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Be kind, ask permission! All photos on this site were taken by me, unless otherwise noted. If you'd like to use a photo, please email me. Follow me on Twitter. Meet my newest creation: my son, Tomás. For the past six to eight months I’ve been working on finishing my Mexico City cookbook, which is finally complete. (More on that shortly.) But the biggest news of all is… I had a baby! The pozole and the giant pig’s head. Why I’m in love with Mexican pan dulce. My favorite food moments of 2013. I started th...
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Restaurant reviews Archives - The Mija Chronicles
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Be kind, ask permission! All photos on this site were taken by me, unless otherwise noted. If you'd like to use a photo, please email me. Follow me on Twitter. Where to eat in Mexico City: Nicos. Concha taste test #17: Rosetta Bakery. Where to eat in Mexico City: Café de Raíz. Some of my favorite tamales in the city are sold at Café de Raíz, a tiny Roma café near the Plaza Luis Cabrera. Owners Pola Carballo and her brother Mardonio Carballo offer a handful of varities daily, and they’re much better t...
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Mexico City Archives - The Mija Chronicles
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Be kind, ask permission! All photos on this site were taken by me, unless otherwise noted. If you'd like to use a photo, please email me. Follow me on Twitter. Why I’m in love with Mexican pan dulce. I am pained when I walk by a bakery in Mexico and can’t go inside. It’s like going to a shoe store for me I want to look at every single piece and wonder if maybe it’s my type. I usually stick to conchas because I’m obsessed, but there are plenty others I like. Scenes from a Mexico City Street Food Tour.
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Recipes Archives - The Mija Chronicles
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Be kind, ask permission! All photos on this site were taken by me, unless otherwise noted. If you'd like to use a photo, please email me. Follow me on Twitter. Lately, whenever people ask me, How’s New York? I answer, Fine. Then I realize that might sound negative, so I add, Good! Fine You know. Good. What I really want to say is: I’m not sure if I like this place. Yesterday the temperature hit 51 degrees, it hit me that maybe it was just. Black bean migas with roasted tomato salsa. Last week I went to a...
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