🕒Prep 45 min🔥Cook 30 min⌛Total 1 hr 15 min🍽️8 servings🔢350 kcal / serving🌎Mexican Pan De Muerto – Sweet Bread With Orange Blossom For Día De Los Muertos. My primo Mateo swore he could charm bread into rising faster. ¡Ay Dios mío!, you should have seen it. Okay, so Pan de Muerto—Bread of the Dead—sounds… dramatic, right? (It is.) It’s not…

🕒Prep 60 min🔥Cook 3 hr 30 min⌛Total 4 hr 30 min🍽️24 servings🔢450 kcal / serving🌎Mexican Tamales Oaxaqueños – Banana Leaf–Wrapped Tamales With Chicken Or Mole My cousin Rafael? ¡Ay Dios mío! He thought he could improve my grandmother’s mole. Improve it! Like she didn’t spend seventy years perfecting it. The drama, people, the DRAMA. Tamales, see, they’re not just food.…

🕒Prep 45 min🔥Cook 1 hr 30 min⌛Total 2 hr 15 min🍽️24 servings🔢250 kcal / serving🌎Mexican Tamales Dulces – Sweet Tamales With Raisins, Pineapple, Or Cinnamon. My cousin Rafa? ¡Ay Dios mío! He thinks he knows everything about tamales. Everything. So, you think a little corn husk can’t hold centuries of history? Think again. Tamales, mija, they aren’t just food. They…

🕒Prep 30 min🔥Cook 1 hr 30 min⌛Total 2 hr🍽️6 servings🔢350 kcal / serving🌎Mexican Sopa Tarasca – Bean, Tomato, And Tortilla Soup From Michoacán. My cousin Miguel… oh, that boy. Tried to impress a girl with a fancy French soup. A French soup! In our family?! ¡Ay Dios mío! The disaster. Okay, okay, so Sopa Tarasca, right? It’s serious business. Like,…

🕒Prep 30 min🔥Cook 25 min⌛Total 55 min🍽️8 servings🔢350 kcal / serving🌎Mexican Quesadillas De Flor De Calabaza – Squash Blossoms With Cheese In Tortillas. My primo, Roberto? He cried because I ate the last flor de calabaza quesadilla. ¡Ay Dios mío! The drama. Back in the day, before supermarkets tried selling us everything year-round, squash blossoms were a big deal. They…

🕒Prep 45 min🔥Cook 3 hr 30 min⌛Total 4 hr 15 min🍽️6 servings🔢750 kcal / serving🌎Mexican Mixiotes De Borrego – Lamb Marinated In Chile Sauce, Steamed In Maguey. My primo Ricardo tried to make this once using lamb chops. Lamb chops! ¡Ay Dios mío! The disrespect. The Mixiote…it's older than your abuela's stories, okay? Seriously. Before the Spanish even showed up…

🕒Prep 45 min🔥Cook 30 min⌛Total 1 hr 15 min🍽️8 servings🔢350 kcal / serving🌎Mexican Gorditas De Chicharrón – Thick Corn Patties Stuffed With Pork Cracklings. The smoke alarm was screaming—again—and my husband, Rafael, swore he saw Abuela’s ghost waving a wooden spoon. It all started with gorditas de chicharrón, of course. These aren't just any gorditas, mija. Gorditas are, like, ancient.…

🕒Prep 30 min🔥Cook 2 hr 30 min⌛Total 3 hr🍽️6 servings🔢450 kcal / serving🌎Mexican Caldo Tlalpeño – Chipotle-Spiced Chicken And Vegetable Soup. My cousin Miguel? He tried to make fideo once. ¡Ay Dios mío! Like watching a telenovela starring a disaster. Now, Caldo Tlalpeño. That’s a different story. It’s soup that hugs you back, you know? A cure for everything from…

🕒Prep 30 min🔥Cook PT0H⌛Total 30 min🍽️6 servings🔢250 kcal / serving🌎Mexican Aguachile – Shrimp In Lime Juice With Cucumber, Onion, And Chiltepin. My cousin, Javier? He tried to make aguachile once in college. It ended with a visit from the fire department—and my aunt yelling about wasted avocados. ¡Ay Dios mío! Aguachile is old school Sinaloa. Like, old old school. We’re…

🕒Prep 45 min🔥Cook 6 hr⌛Total 7 hr 15 min🍽️8 servings🔢450 kcal / serving🌎Mexican Birria De Res – Slow-Cooked Beef Stew With A Rich, Spiced Consommé. The chihuahua almost ended up in the birria, ¡ay Dios mío! It was a whole thing. Birria. Now, birria ain’t just soup, mija. It’s a history lesson, a family tradition, and a potential emergency room…