Beans Cooked in a HUGE Clay pot and a Caja China
Friends invited me over to a party to celebrate their new Caja China and the roasting of a whole pig. Rich did all kinds of research and dutifully prepared the...
Friends invited me over to a party to celebrate their new Caja China and the roasting of a whole pig. Rich did all kinds of research and dutifully prepared the...
These pots were found in the Pinotepa Nacional mercado. These are the pots that Diana Kennedy features in her seminal book Oaxaca al Gusto for the dish El Cabio on...
How can I be faithful to my Poblano beanpot when Bram comes along and produces this gorgeous little number in Egypt? All the perfumes of Araby cannot hide the stench...
My local Mexican grocer had some xoconostle (sour prickly pears) and even though they were a little sad looking, I bought them all. We have a new shipment in from...
There are dozens of reasons why I love living in Napa, almost none of them involving wine. My fellow Napans make great neighbors and when there's a call for a...
Until you get obsessive, a normal pot is fine for beans. Once you start down that slippery slope, you'll want several different pots for different beans and different cuisines. I...
I can't tell you how many conversations I have with people who just don't know what to do with their beans after they've bought them. Even after I tell them,...
I bought a mattone after I read about them in Paula Wolfert's Mediterranean Clay Pot Cooking and so far I've been underwhelmed. The piece is fine but all the chickens...
This is a simple dish from Diana Kennedy's The Essential Cuisines of Mexico. I'd never made the dish before but the book will go with me to my desert island....
My youngest son and I have decided to take road trips to visit all the old missions in California. It was a whim at one point but now we've started...
Thanks to a hot tip from Paula Wolfert's Mediterranean Clay Pot Cooking book, I ordered this handsome clay pot and lid from Turkey. It's very crude and very heavy and...