Last week,
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This weekend, I baked Pan de Muertos for the first time. Last year new_man's sister's family planned to go to Mexico on Halloween, be there for Dias de los Muertos, and learn to make sugar skulls and the bread. Sadly, Hurricane Sandy threw a wrench into those plans*, so I wasn't using an authentic, from the source recipe.

I used this one from the Times. ( Read more... )

Yesterday being Cinquo de Mayo, we decide to have a Mexican theme to our Sunday Social. new_man and I wanted to bring something muy autentico, and it was a little challenging to find something appropriate. A lot of snacks want to be served hot and that's not an option. And the food shouldn't be too messy. It's too bad I don't own a single Mexican cookbook ( Read more... )