Tag: Mexican
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A FRANK Tale: REAL Mexico
(Most photos in this blog appear courtesy of Stephanie Casey at Frugal Foodie Dallas, who live-blogged our menu for us! Thanks, Stephanie!) We’ve been wanting to do Mexican FRANK for a very, very long time. Since the beginning, in fact. BUT…when you live in a place like Texas, which is oversaturated with both TexMex AND…
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MasterChef 4 recap: Huitlacoche and Walmart (S4E13)
(PLEASE NOTE: This blog is not endorsed or approved by MasterChef or Fox and they would probably rather you not read it. Contained below are the opinions and maniacal ravings of an MC2 survivor and should not be treated as fact or as inside information.) After a blessed 2 week break spanning the 4th of…
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A MasterChef Reunion in Houston
A perfect storm of events happened last weekend that resulted in my need to be in Houston for a few days. (Mostly to visit a dear college friend who was having much of her liver out.) Houston takes 2nd place to Austin as the best foodie city in Texas, though I don’t like to admit…
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How to make “calaveras” or Mexican sugar skulls without meringue powder
The net is an incredible place, because 10 years ago, if I wanted to make “calaveras,” which are those sugar skulls that kids and lovers give each other for the Mexican holiday El Dia de los Muertos (the Day of the Dead), how on earth would I have figured out how to do that without…