Recipes

I love hot soup on a cold January day. This soup comes together quickly and is easily reheated. I like my food on the spicy side, but you can downscale...

Usually around March I start really craving summer and all that comes with it. I like to make a grilled dish that reminds me that summer is coming soon. This...

Another one of my slow cooked recipes meant to fill your home with great cooking scents on those cold winter afternoons in Chicago! Like many of my Tex-Mex recipes, this...

Usually I eat papaya plain, but the one I brought home the other day was so firm and big that it was just too perfect for stuffing. I had seen...

We love fish tacos, and I created this slaw using all spices from the Spice House.

We use this all the time! We love it so much it's our favorite taco, burrito, or nacho seasoning. I can't keep it mixed up!

This is a good Mexican style marinade that isn't very spicy hot with a very pleasant flavor. I use this recipe when marinating chicken for a variety of Mexican dishes...

We've all heard of Tequila Lime Chicken. I wanted a variation with the jerk chicken and decided to try it with rum and jerk seasoning. It has a nice kick...

I created this "enhanced" guacamole recipe a year ago. It's the best I've tasted. Photo by Vel and Amy.

This is my favorite traditional mole recipe adapted from Mexico the Beautiful Cookbook by Susana Palazuelos. Making mole from dried chiles takes time, but is well worth the effort. Mole's...

Vanilla is indigenous to Mexico, therefore we felt its flavor would be appropriately paired with chipotle peppers.

I found this recipe in an international cooking magazine and made it tweaking it ever so slightly. I hope this will make up for my past entry which wasn't too...