Christmas Dinner: Lomo De Cerdo, Ensalada De Noche Buena

Our friend and super talented chef Juan Mondragon, he of Juan’s Restaurante in California, shared his special Christmas recipe with us this week. Below are the recipes for Lomo de Cerdo […]

By La Cosmopolatina Blow everyone out of the water this holiday season with the most delicious Christmas treats ever! Everyone will be contributing the usual gingerbread cookies and buñuelos and natilla to the festivities, […]

When I was a kid, I would get all teary-eyed during Christmas as I watched those Save the Children commercials in which African children with distended bellies shared a couple […]

By Melissa Pitts Tamales are the Christmas food. Every year we see them on our Christmas Eve dinner table (or breakfast in my house!) and every year, they bring me […]

How do you plan a modern tamalada? We are all busy, and have also said things to do, but this time of year is still a great time to get […]

By Abigail Garcia December is one of my favorite months: everything is filled with red, green, white, silver- and in Mexico you also see a lot of orange, yellow and […]

There has been but one time in my life where I relished the opportunity to drink a mouthful of seeds and eat weird-looking green food, and that was last week […]

By Melissa Pitts First, let me begin this recipe intro by saying that this is not Mexican ponche! Guatemalan ponche is very different from your classic Mexican version (you’ll have […]

By Aurora Ibarra Not your traditional pesto- this uses one of my favorite ingredients- avocado! This pesto goes great with pasta or use it to top of grilled fish. The […]

So most of us struggle to find our way around the consumerism that occupies this time of the year. What about family? Being grateful for the people in your life? […]