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The Mexican Home Kitchen

Traditional Home-Style Recipes That Capture the Flavors and Memories of Mexico

Mely Martínez

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Rock Point
15 September 2020
With over 75 recipes, The Mexican Home Kitchen compiles the traditional home-style dishes enjoyed every day in Mexican households-with a great influence from the states of Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon, Veracruz, Puebla, Estado de Mexico, Tabasco, and Yucatan-including breakfasts, stews, soups, pastas, rice dishes, and moles, along with dishes like enchiladas, picadillo, and milanesa, and rounded out with delicious salsas, drinks, and desserts.

For Mely Martinez, Mexican cooking has always been about family, community, and tradition. Mely started helping in the kitchen at a very young age, since she was the oldest daughter of eight children, and spent summers at her grandmother's farm in the state of Veracruz, where part of the daily activities included helping grind the corn to make masa. She started her popular blog, Mexico in My Kitchen, to capture the recipes and memories of her home for her son so that he will someday recreate and share these dishes with his own family. In the meantime, her blog has become the go-to source for those looking for authentic home-style Mexican cooking.

Recreate these favourite dishes using inexpensive, easy-to-find ingredients:

Caldo de Pollo (Mexican chicken soup)

Beef Birria (shredded beef cooked in a red stew)

Tacos de Bistec (steak tacos)

Sopes (a street food made with dough and topped with various meat fillings)

Pork Carnitas

Salsa Taquera (salsa for tacos)

Pork Tamales

Red and Green Enchiladas

Pastel de Tres Leches (a luscious and moist cake that's a Mexican favourite)

Bunuelos (crispy dough fritters coated in sugar)

Gorditas (classic Mexican street food with a variety of fillings)

Queso Fundido (a melted cheese appetiser, topped with chorizo)

Mole Poblano (one of the most classic and popular moles)

Tamales de Elote (sweet tamales with a ground corn filling.

Nopales recipes (recipes made with cactus paddles)

Empanadas

Chilaquiles

Chicken Tingas

Complete with easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions, stunning photos, recipe stories, and cooking tips, The Mexican Home Kitchen will have you enjoying the fresh flavours of Mexico in no time.

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Imprint:   Rock Point
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 254mm,  Width: 203mm, 
ISBN:   9781631066931
ISBN 10:   1631066935
Pages:   192
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Introduction The Mexican Pantry Tools & Equipment Roasting Vegetables Corn Tortillas Flour Tortillas SOUPS CALDO DE POLLO Chicken Soup CALDO DE RES Beef and Vegetable Soup CREMA DE ELOTE Cream of Corn Soup CREMA DE PAPA Cream of Potato Soup SOPA DE LENTEJAS Lentil Soup SOPA DE FIDEO Mexican Noodle Soup MENUDO Mexican Tripe Soup POZOLE ROJO Red Pozole POZOLE VERDE DE POLLO Green Pozole with Chicken SOPA DE TORTILLA Tortilla Soup   MAIN DISHES TACOS DE BISTEC Steak Tacos FLAUTAS DE PAPA Crispy Rolled Potato Tacos CARNITAS BARBACOA DE LENGUA Beef Tongue Barbacoa Tacos CHILES RELLENOS MOLE POBLANO ALBONDIGAS Mexican Meatball Soup ALBONDIGAS EN CHIPOTLE Meatballs in Chipotle Sauce CALABACITAS CON PUERCO Pork Stew with Squash CARNE CON PAPAS Beef and Potatoes ASADO DE PUERCO Pork Stew MILANESA DE RES Beef Milanesa CAMARONES EN CHIPOTLE Shrimp in Chipotle Sauce BISTEC A LA MEXICANA Mexican-Style Steak CHICHARRÓN EN SALSA VERDE Fried Pork Skins in Green Salsa DISCADA NORTEÑA Northern-Style Mixed Meats ENTOMATADAS EMPANADAS DE QUESO Cheese Empanadas EMPANADAS DE CARNE MOLIDA Ground Beef Empanadas TOSTADAS DE POLLO Chicken Tostadas ENCHILADAS ROJAS Red Enchiladas ENCHILADAS VERDES Green Enchiladas COSTILLAS EN SALSA VERDE Pork Rib Tips in Green Salsa ENSALADA DE POLLO Chicken Salad ENSALDA DE CODITOS Macaroni Salad FILETE DE PESCADO EMPANIZADO Breaded Fish Fillet FRIJOL CON PUERCO Pork and Beans PICADILLO POLLO A LA VERACRUZANA Chicken Veracruz-Style TINGA DE POLLO Chicken Tinga POLLO EN SALSA VERDE CON CALABACITAS Chicken with Squash in Green Salsa POLLO ENTOMATADO Chicken in Tomato Sauce ROPA VIEJA Shredded Beef in Tomato Sauce TAMALES DE POLLO EN SALSA VERDE Chicken in Green Salsa Tamales TAMALES DE PUERCO Pork Tamales TAMALES DE RAJAS CON QUESO Cheese and Vegetable Tamales   SALSAS & SIDES PICO DE GALLO SALSA ROJA Red Salsa SALSA ROJA ROSTIZADA Roasted Red Salsa SALSA TAQUERA Taqueria- Style Salsa SALSA VERDE Green Salsa SALSA VERDE ROSTIZADA Roasted Green Salsa SALSA VERDE CREMOSA Creamy Avocado Tomatillo Salsa GUACAMOLE ARROZ BLANCO White Rice ARROZ ROJO Red Rice ARROZ VERDE Green Rice FRIJOLES REFRITOS Refried Beans FRIJOLES DE OLLA Beans from the Pot FRIJOLES PINTOS CREMOSOS Creamy Pinto Beans CALABACITAS CON CREMA Mexican Squash with Cream CALABACITAS CON QUESO Mexican Squash with Cheese ENSALADA DE REPOLLO Cabbage Salad NOPALES CON OREGANO Cactus Paddles with Oregano   DESSERTS & DRINKS ARROZ CON LECHE Rice Pudding BUDÍN DE PAN Bread Pudding BUÑUELOS CHURROS CREPAS Crepes FLAN GELATINA DE MOSAICO Mosaic Gelatin 1 PASTEL DE CUMPLEAÑOS Old- Fashioned Birthday Cake PASTEL DE TRES LECHES Three Milks Cake TAMALES DULCES Sweet Tamales TAMALES DE PIÑA Pineapple Tamales AGUA DE HORCHATA Horchata AGUA DE JAMAICA Hibiscus Iced Tea AGUA DE TAMARINDO Tamarind Drink ATOLE BLANCO White Atole ATOLE DE ARROZ Rice Atole CHAMPURRADO CAFÉ DE OLLA Mexican Spiced Coffee CHOCOLATE CALIENTE Mexican Hot Chocolate PONCHE NAVIDEÑO Mexican Christmas Punch   Index Acknowledgments About the Author  

"Mely Martinez started her blog, Mexico in My Kitchen, in 2009 for her teenage son, hoping that someday he will use it to recreate the Mexican food his ""mama"" made for the family. She was born and raised in the city of Tampico, Tamaulipas, and started helping in the kitchen at a very young age, since she was the oldest daughter of eight children. She spent summers at her grandmother's farm in the state of Veracruz, where part of the daily activities included helping grind the corn to make masa. At the age of twenty, Mely moved to southern Mexico, where she worked as a teacher. This job gave her the opportunity to travel to all the states in the Yucatan Peninsula and enjoy its excellent and unique cuisine. After some years there, she lived in other states in Mexico, as well as traveling to most of them. By then, she had moved twenty-nine times! Mely enjoys cooking basic meals that are well known to most people in Mexico. Her recipes are created from her own knowledge and utilise easy-to-find ingredients. She lives in Dallas, Texas."

Reviews for The Mexican Home Kitchen: Traditional Home-Style Recipes That Capture the Flavors and Memories of Mexico

I have always admired the culinary work of Mely, her passion for food, and the love she has for the Mexican gastronomy. This book will touch hearts with every one of its recipes, filled with stories, traditions, and a burst of Mexican flavor. - Omar Sandoval, chef, TV personality, author, and founder of the Sacchi Academy of Culinary Arts This book takes me back to my own mother's cooking, touching my corazon Mexicano. From the northern region's flour tortilla to the south's complex and elegant mole, this book offers it all, beautifully laid out and with easy-to-follow recipes. A real standout in the world of Mexican cookbooks. - Silvana Salcido Esparza, James Beard Award nominated chef and owner of Barrio Cafe Mely's way of understanding Mexican home cooking manages to transmit the culinary heritage of our Mexico, and exalts it with both simplicity and sophistication. There is no doubt that with her recipes, we can taste the Mexican identity. - Lula MartA-n del Campo, chef, author, and owner of Cascabel restaurant Mely's book is filled with memories that capture the essence of Mexican home cooking. Its recipes are the ones that I was brought up with, and are a fundamental part of our culture. - Adrian Herrera, chef, judge of MasterChef Mexico, owner of Fonda San Francisco and Paso Del Norte


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