Silverbeet and cheese quesadillas. Home grown goodness.

October 2, 2008 by Dani

I love it when the state of the garden dictates our meal choices. Today simply had to be about silver beet (swiss chard). photo by MG Shelton, some rights reserved I rather fancied quesadillas. Much as I love my usual masa harina tortilla recipe, I felt like something more malleable. I still wanted to retain […]

The salads are warm but the tortillas are cold.

September 26, 2008 by Dani

We like to mix things up a little round here. So I took a salad, added some grated cheese, sour cream and freshly made corn tortillas. Yum. Although perhaps serving beans for both lunch and dinner was overkill. Maybe we should stay out of the public arena for awhile. Southwestern Black Bean Salad from Tossed, […]

Feasting Mexican Style

June 7, 2008 by Dani

Sometimes I just feel like making the Bread Winner something special. His best something specials are pretty much always Mexican. The success of this meal indicated that Son and Heir has inherited his father’s predilection for south of the border flavours. South of the border in the colloquial sense, not literal, as that would be […]

Salt Baked Fish and Seafood Tortillas

March 27, 2008 by Dani

This little number was born of a medley of things I had been wanting to try, a change in weather and a great deal at the fishmongers. The salt baked fish idea came to me via Stone Soup and the marinara concept from a prawn ceviche recipe in the 2007 Annual Gourmet Traveller Cookbook. Salt […]