Mexican

Identity Crisis

by Mara @ What's For Dinner? on March 25, 2011

in Baking, beef, Italian, Mexican/Latin, pizza, Uncategorized

This is a meal with a bit of an identity crisis. It’s the dough of a calzone. But what are those condiments? Those look fairly Mexican. Salsa, sour cream, avocado… yup. Mexican condiments. So what’s inside this puffy calzone? That would be gooey cheese (low fat cheddar), fat-free vegetarian refried beans, and lean taco meat. [...]

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Best of Two Worlds

by Mara @ What's For Dinner? on February 21, 2011

in Baking, simple recipe

Have you voted today for my Wonderful POMcakes? Before I moved in with Adam, I lived in this wonderful neighborhood on the northwest side of Chicago. It was notoriously a Polish neighborhood, but its true appeal lay in who lived a mere few blocks away. Lizz (and infant Skylar) and our good friend Greg lived [...]

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Guest Post: Life as a Foodie’s Tacos

by Mara @ What's For Dinner? on January 10, 2011

in guest post, simple recipe

When I read a tweet lately asking if anyone would like to do a guest post, I leapt on the opportunity. Why, I don’t know, but I imagine the attention whore in me thought I’d get some extra traffic to my blog, Life as a Foodie, in doing so. But what it came down to [...]

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Did You Say… CORN?

by Mara @ What's For Dinner? on October 27, 2010

in chicken/turkey, Mexican/Latin, simple recipe

**Today is the last day to vote for Project Food Blog Challenge #6! I’d truly appreciate your vote!** I apparently am very consistent with ingredients I truly enjoy, and even more consistent if we’re talking about a Latin or Mexican dish. Black beans tomatoes corn chile peppers Yes. I put these very ingredients in my [...]

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Green & Green

by Mara @ What's For Dinner? on October 19, 2010

in Mexican/Latin, pork, simple recipe

Ever since I saw Ashley’s post on chiles rellenos, I’ve been dying to try my hand at making them. I had that pesky little oven problem, and I knew I didn’t want to fry them. After frying beignets, I knew that frying really isn’t for me. Traditional chiles rellenos (literally means stuffed chiles) are filled [...]

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I’d been looking forward to June 26 for a long time. Besides the fact that it was my dad’s birthday (happy late birthday Dad!), it was the scheduled night for our bi-monthly meeting of the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pans! We decided at our last meeting that our next culinary stop would be Latin America, [...]

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