Our Mexican home cooking
As we mentioned in this post on keeping costs down, we have been cooking at our apartment a fair amount. We head over to the Mercado Benito Juarez, in the center of town, every few days to pick up things like white rice, black beans, tomatoes, avocados, limes, papaya, pineapple, guavas, bananas, onions, eggplant, broccoli, jalapenos… you get the idea.
We then usually stop by at the largest supermarket in town, Super Che, to get things like granola, yogurt, and any specialty items like chips, chocolate, nutella or salami, that we’re craving and just have to eat.
If you get a hankering for some authentic Mexican eats, or if you just miss us and want to pretend we’re sharing a meal, you can try some of these simple things we’ve been preparing:
Tasty Hot Salsa
- 8 to 10 jalapenos, tops removed (but keep the seeds for kick!)
- 3 cloves of garlic, skins removed
- juice of half a lime
Tortilla Soup
- 2 to 2.5 liters veggie or chicken stock
- 3 cups cooked black beans
- 2 avocados, sliced
- 1/2 a medium-sized onion, diced
- 1 tbspn olive oil
- tortilla chips
- for garnish and seasoning, served on side: cilantro, limes, sour cream and Tasty Hot Salsa (recipe above).
Tacos Con Papas y Frijoles
- 8 small corn tortillas
- 2 medium-sized potatoes, cubed and boiled
- 2 cups cooked black beans
- sour cream
- 2 avocados, sliced
- 1 diced red onion
- cilantro
- Tasty Hot Salsa (see first recipe above)
- queso fresco, crumbled
Guacamole
- 2 ripe avocados
- 1/2 small red onion
- juice of 1 lime
- 1/4 cup cilantro leaves, chopped
- 1 tbspn cumin powder, or better yet, freshly crushed cumin seed if you have it
Banana Pancakes (or, Ubiquitous Backpacker Hostel Breakfast)
Other tasty things that don’t need cooking:
- Papaya with lime squeezed on it
- Guavas, quartered (but we don’t eat the skins). Those are guava quarters in the above papaya photo.
- Tunas rojas — not sure what they’re called in English, but they are red fruits from cactus plants. The green versions (tunas verdes) are not as sweet.
Gorgeous pictures…food looks delicious.
We miss you guys…But looks like you are having such a great time. Glad you’re both back surfing!
xo
Lisa
Miss you guys! Love to all of you from both of us.
i’m hungry…
Ok, all of it looks amazing! The food, the exploring, the surf and Michael’s foot has healed enough so that he can again enjoy the water! Enjoying all the posts. Miss you, Aline & Bill
PS mmmm…guacamole 😉
We LOVE the food here! Miss you guys, drop me an email when you have time!
I want to make all the recipes. Send more. So great witnessing your trip!
Love & light, Karolee
Thanks for following, Karolee! Glad you’re enjoying the blog 🙂