Dulce de leche is a popular confection in Latin America. It is made by slowly heating sugar and milk for several hours until getting a thick sauce which can be used as a spread on bread or cookies, or as a filling on many pastries. For this recipe we are using a dulce de leche from Argentina found at “El gaucho” a butchery and Latin America products’ store north of Toronto. Many large grocery stores in Canada carry dulce de leche spreads imported from different countries; find it in the ethnic or baking products aisle.
Author: Aída Guerra
Game night? Watch your favourite sport this weekend while snacking on these fabulous jalapeño peppers wrapped in turkey bacon and stuffed with mozzarella cheese. Pair them with your favourite beer and enjoy!
Happy Cinco de Mayo! This year we are celebrating with a hearty casserole of delicious enchiladas made with flour tortillas, filled with a mixture of shredded chicken, bell peppers and caramelized onions, smothered in an easy-to-make tomato sauce and topped with a combination of grated mozzarella and cheddar cheese. Buen provecho!
Flan is a custard topped with caramel. It is a very popular dessert in Spain, Latin America and Caribbean countries. There are endless varieties of flans. Mexican flans start from a similar base mixture: whole eggs, sweetened condensed milk, evaporated milk, sugar and vanilla extract. This flan was made with cranberry sauce and cream cheese, a celebration of our Mexican-Canadian heritage.
Spring warm weather calls for some frozen treats. If you don’t have popsicle molds, simply use a bowl to freeze the blended mixture and make granita instead. Either way, all your family will love this easy-to-make dessert.
La Marquesa is a national park situated in the State of Mexico, about an hour from Mexico City. It is the perfect place for a weekend road trip. Hiking, camping, fishing, pony or horseback riding, ATV or quad biking, go karting, zip lining, paintball, are just a few of the many activities available in the area for every taste and budget. The area is also full of restaurants know for their traditional La Marquesa-style mushroom soup, mushroom quesadillas in blue corn tortillas, green chorizo quesadillas, cecina tacos (dried meat tacos), fried trout and many more.
A few ingredients go a long way to make a delicious week dinner. Pair this ground beef and cabbage dish with some cooked rice or pasta, a side of mashed or baked potatoes, plus some roasted vegetables.
This scrumptious Tex-Mex burrito is paired with a Molcajete salsa. Molcajete is a type of mortar made of volcanic stone, very popular in Mexico to make all sorts of salsas, but if you don’t have a molcajete or other type of mortar at home, simply put all the ingredients in the food processor and pulse for a few seconds to get a chunky texture salsa.
Enjoy this vegetarian soup made with just a few ingredients: butternut squash, chickpeas, garlic, onion and tomatoes. A simple to make, and fast comforting soup to warm you up on any cold winter evening..
If you are hosting this Holiday season treat your guests to a delicious and decadent Cranberry-orange cheesecake. The orange juice in the filling and in the sauce gives it a sweet, balanced flavour. Surprise your guests with this cheesecake that also has one additional layer of cranberry-orange sauce in between layers of cheese filling.