15 Oct 2015 4 Comments
in On the Road, Recipes Tags: Baja, Casa Tres Coronitas, Don Schneider, fish tacos, Mazatlán, Mexican cuisine, Mexico, Puerto Vallarta, tacos
“There’s something wrong with your blog,” a friend said to me one day.
“Oh yeah,” I replied with a raised eyebrow. “What’s that?”
“There are no fish tacos on there.”
Could it possibly be true? That of all the posts on my blog, and more specifically all the times I’d written about tacos, that I had overlooked the Baja fish taco??
Baja fish tacos
“It’s true!” said friend who alerted me to the fact. “I looked through the entire site, no fish tacos.”
No fish tacos! More
20 Feb 2015 8 Comments
in Recipes Tags: bloody mary, caviar, Don Schneider, Mexican cuisine, Rick Bayless, tamalada, tamales, Vallarta Market
We were sitting around on New Year’s Day drinking bloody marys, when my pal Don showed up with caviar, creme fraiche and blinis.
New Years Day in the Colgin kitchen
His timing was impeccable — it was late morning, we’d eaten nothing yet, the drinks were beginning to take away the edge of nausea, and we had nothing planned. The only thing on my agenda for the day was culinary — I was going to make tamales. More
skinny girls & mayonnaise 