🕒Prep 30 min🔥Cook 3 hr⌛Total PT5D🍽️8 servings🔢120 kcal / serving🌎Mexican Tepache – Fermented Pineapple Drink. My cousin Marco tried to make tepache last summer. ¡Ay Dios mío! The kitchen smelled like a pineapple exploded in a brewery for a week. So, people been fermenting things since, well, forever. Like, before they even had refrigerators (can you imagine?). Tepache—that’s te-PAH-cheh, for…

🕒Prep 45 min🔥Cook 2 hr 30 min⌛Total 3 hr 15 min🍽️6 servings🔢650 kcal / serving🌎Mexican Pollo En Mole Verde – Chicken Simmered In Green Mole With Pumpkin Seeds My family has a superpower. It’s turning any attempt at a nice dinner into a full-blown telenovela. ¡Ay Dios mío! Now, mole. People think it’s just chocolate sauce, right? Wrong. It’s history…

🕒Prep 30 min🔥Cook 1 hr 30 min⌛Total 2 hr🍽️6 servings🔢450 kcal / serving🌎Mexican Picadillo – Ground Beef Hash With Potatoes, Carrots, And Raisins My cousin Miguel almost set the kitchen on fire trying to make toast last week. Picadillo seemed safer, relatively speaking. Picadillo. It sounds fancy, right? Like something you’d find in Spain or Cuba. But listen up. It’s…

🕒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 30 min🔥Cook PT0H⌛Total 30 min🍽️8 servings🔢180 kcal / serving🌎Mexican Ensalada De Navidad – Festive Fruit Salad With Beets And Peanuts Okay, here we go. My husband Carlos just tried to ‘help’ by pre-chopping an apple…with a butter knife. ¡Ay Dios mío! This Ensalada de Navidad isn’t your average fruit salad. It’s…complicated. Like our family. You gotta understand where it…

🕒Prep 45 min🔥Cook 1 hr 30 min⌛Total 2 hr 15 min🍽️6 servings🔢450 kcal / serving🌎Mexican Enchiladas Mineras – Guanajuato-Style Enchiladas With Carrots And Potatoes My car still smells like guajillo peppers from last year’s attempt. ¡Ay Dios mío! Guanajuato, right? Gorgeous city. But forget the silver mines and Diego Rivera murals for a second. You wanna know what they really…

🕒Prep 25 min🔥Cook PT0H⌛Total 25 min🍽️6 servings🔢180 kcal / serving🌎Mexican Ceviche De Pescado – Lime-Cured Fish With Tomato, Onion, And Chile Cousin Luis once tried to make ceviche with gummy worms. ¡Ay Dios mío! It was… a situation. The Ocean’s Embrace A zesty journey through Peruvian history. Now, ceviche. Everyone thinks it’s a Mexican thing. That boy, Luis, with his…

🕒Prep 45 min🔥Cook 30 min⌛Total 1 hr 15 min🍽️12 servings🔢350 kcal / serving🌎Mexican Bocoles – Thick Corn Patties From Veracruz Filled With Beans Or Meat The smoke alarm went off because Abuela tried to toast a tortilla directly over the gas burner. It’s just Tuesday, honestly. These bocoles? They're from Veracruz, a place where the Gulf Coast humidity hangs on…

🕒Prep 15 min🔥Cook 30 min⌛Total 45 min🍽️8 servings🔢50 kcal / serving🌎Mexican Agua De Jamaica – Hibiscus Flower Iced Tea. My cousin Miguel tried to make Agua de Jamaica from concentrate one time. ¡Ay Dios mío! It was like sweetened red sadness. So, you know, Agua de Jamaica – hibiscus tea? It didn’t just appear in our kitchens. People think it’s…

🕒Prep 30 min🔥Cook 6 hr 30 min⌛Total 7 hr🍽️8-10 servings🔢450 kcal / serving🌎Mexican Brisket A La Mexicana – Chile-Braised Beef The Traditional Way My brother thought he could impress my Abuelita with store-bought barbacoa. ¡Ay Dios mío!, you wouldn’t believe the look she gave him. Like he’d insulted her ancestors. Now, brisket? That's serious business. It ain't just meat, it’s…