Since I live in a pretty small apartment, it takes a lot to get me to turn on the oven during a heat wave. But I often break that rule for fresh corn because it reaches its peak in early summer. The first time I had Mexican corn on the cob or “elote”, was at
My new-found love for avocados has me making fresh guacamole at least once a week, but I’ve been wanting to try something different. One hot summer morning, I found ripe avocados, tomatoes, and a few ears of fresh corn in the pantry and a recipe was born. I roasted two ears of corn in the
A couple of weeks ago I bought a small can of chipotle peppers in adobo sauce to make a favorite dish, baked chipotle chicken. There are generally 7 or 8 peppers to a can so I decided to make barbacoa beef with some of the leftover peppers. Barbacoa is a richly flavored, slightly spicy beef
