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Cinco Recipes for Cinco de Mayo

by Art Rodriguez in Appetizer, Beverages, Desserts, Main Entrée, Recipes on May 5, 2013

Happy Cinco de Mayo from our kitchen to yours! Here are CINCO recipes to make your fiesta memorably delicious. Click on the photos below to get the recipe. And here are Cinco more recipes to round out the festivities!...

Jalapeño Deviled Eggs

by Stephen Chavez in Appetizer, Recipes on March 29, 2013

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Here’s my Easter story: When I was about seven-years-old my mom thought it’d be a smart idea to hide the Easter eggs in the backyard before the family trotted off to church. All throughout mass I fidgeted, anxious to get home for the annual egg hunt. When we got home I got my empty egg carton and stood by the backdoor waiting for my older brothers,...

What’s A Super Bowl Party Without Guacamole? Try This Fool-Proof Avocado Dip Recipe

by Stephen Chavez in Appetizer, Recipes on January 29, 2013

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I am so fed up with Los Angeles not having its own football team. The NFL season wraps up this Sunday with the Super Bowl and I can’t help but be bitter. So instead of cheering for a team, I am rooting for the food being served during the Big Game. Move over chicken wings, quesadillas, bean dips – The Big Bad Avocado is in...

Chorizo and Bean Fried Plantain Cups Will be a Hit on New Year’s Eve

by Stephen Chavez in Appetizer, Recipes on December 27, 2012

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During the holidays we make a lot of pinto beans for our tamale dinners. I always freeze the left-overs for future use like when I am looking for appetizers to serve our New Year’s Eve guests. The fried platano cups have the flavor, weight and heartiness of a fried potato skin. You can find these, plus the queso cotija and crema Mexicana in a Latino...

Fiery Shrimp Cocktail with Avocados from Mexico

by Stephen Chavez in Appetizer, Featured Blog Posts, Recipes on May 16, 2012

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We were recently asked to create a recipe using avocados from Mexico. Below is one of our favorite shrimp cocktail recipes that has just the right amount of heat and zest. Here’s a snippet of information that our contributing writer Norma Vega posted a few months back about the delectable avocado: Yet another fruit from the Americas! First the sinful orb-the tomato-then the dirty orb-the...

Celebrate The Chinese New Year With This Recipe for Wontons and a Spicy Habanero and Mango Dipping Sauce

by Art Rodriguez in Appetizer, Main Entrée, Recipes on January 28, 2012

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Happy New Year…again! The Lunar New Year is upon us, and with it a chance to explore another culture as rich in traditions and foods as our own. The Chinese New Year is one of the most important traditional Chinese holidays and has always brought out our Chinese and Chinese-American brothers and sisters for a 15 day celebration of good luck, prosperity, health, fortune,...

Around the World in 8 Guacamoles

by Art Rodriguez in Appetizer, Recipes on June 30, 2011

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With the delectable fruit drooping from trees, we’d be fools to let avocados go to waste this season. The simplest thing to do would be to make vats of guacamole and buy Costco-sized bags of tortilla chips and go to town…with a few of your closest friends of course. But to change it up this summer, we’ve dug up a few guacamole variations from around...