Cookbook Challenge – Rick Stein: Mexican inspired beef tortilla wraps

I recently made a delicious recipe from Rick Stein’s The Road to Mexico, called ‘chargrilled beef tacos with spring onions and guacamole’. I call them Mexican inspired beef tortillas. As usual according to the rules of the Cookbook Challenge, I followed the recipe exactly, despite having doubts about it, because I might learn a new […]

Cookbook Challenge – Mexico: Sopa de Lima and Slow Cooked Pibil Pork

For my first cookbook challenge of 2015 (ever, in fact!) Andrew picked the Mexican book he bought me for Christmas: ‘Mexico: the cookbook‘ by Margarita Carrillo Arronte. It’s a beautiful looking book with a vibrant pink and orange cover; and a serious one too: interspersed with occasional images (only one in every ten recipes has a […]

Eating my way around the world – hola from Mexico!

My amazing suntan is not enough compensation for being back in rainy, wintry, cold London … especially as I am going back to work tomorrow. My body still thinks I am six hours behind in Mexico, even though I am forcing myself to get up early to reset my body clock. Also, having come from an […]