Green and Red Chicken Chilaquiles and Chicharrones Tacos

The spice cha-chas on. Red light, green light, red salsa, green salsa…you’ll be doing the Conga at the stove. After I played this oldie music video, I proceeded to watch every Gloria Estefan classic and now all I have is fantasies of doing a karaoke montage of Conga, Turn the Beat Around, and The Rhythm is […]

Cauliflower Steaks with Salsa Verde and M&M Conditioning

M&Ms are the reason I learned to defecate properly. This isn’t an IBS biofeedback story, I’m referring to potty-training. My mother used M&Ms as incentive, and the operant conditioning worked. In fact, I even got M&Ms for leading my brother to the trough, so to speak. M&Ms by pooping proxy. Fast-forward from two to twenty-nine, […]

Cod with Potatoes and Salsa Verde

This is a recipe from the Basque region of Spain. When I studied at Salamanca in college, I recall meeting a boy my age on a country bus who, after drinking half of a 2-Liter of Coca Cola, opened a bottle of red table wine and poured it into the remaining Coke. He offered me […]