29 Apr 2016 3 Comments
in Pork, Recipes Tags: carnitas, ceviche, humor, Mexican cooking, Mexico, puzzle, tacos, tamales
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It all started, as it often does, with a big chunk of pork.
Pork shoulder, that is — my favorite cut. It was on sale at the grocery store, so I bought it, thinking I might prepare something Mexican. Maybe carnitas, maybe chile verde, maybe cochinita pibil. More
24 Dec 2015 7 Comments
in Recipes, Starlets, Yoga Students & Quinoa (stories) Tags: Christmas, Del Maguey, food, humor, iberico bellota, Mexican food, mezcal, Modelo, tamales, tequila
‘Twas the day before Christmas Eve, and all through the house, it was going down.
The kids were bickering and the wife and nanny cleaning, while in the kitchen a veritable assembly line of tamale production was stirring — chickens boiling, corn husks soaking, banana leaves being cut into squares, masa simmering on the stove.
Tamales steaming
I enjoy testing my ethnic and regional chops serving our very international community of friends and associates the food of their native country — as I did with our pal Brian’s Japanese girlfriend when I made a winter kaiseki dinner. Our nanny is from El Salvador, which I figured was close enough to Mexico to count her as a voice of authenticity for my Mexican tamale. 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 