Category: Latin American – North (Including Mexico & Central America)

Creamy Chicken Tortilla Soup

Creamy Chicken Tortilla Soup

My mom has been making creamy chicken tortilla soup my whole life, and it’s always been a family favorite. I took on the recipe and added my own tweaks, and it’s now my signature dish.

Vegetarian empanadas

Vegetarian empanadas

A lot of my friends are vegetarian and I love to help them out with dishes for their families.

Barbeque Turkey Nachos

Barbeque Turkey Nachos

This is a twist on traditional nachos, using ingredients that you might have leftover from your Thanksgiving dinner. These are spicy, sweet, and incredibly comforting and do not taste like leftovers at all!

Creamy Poblano Pasta

Creamy Poblano Pasta

Fancy enough for date night, easy enough for a week night. Tex-Mex flavors in Italian format: this pasta is gluten free, meatless, and sure to satisfy everyone!

Chickpea empanadas

Chickpea empanadas

These chickpea empanadas with a bright salsa fresca, or salsa verde, are so crave worthy, spicy, lightly smoky, flaky and mmm just so scrumptious.

Black Bean and Potato Tacos

Black Bean and Potato Tacos

This recipe is perfect for your Meatless Monday or Taco Tuesday! These tacos are so filling and flavorful, you won’t even miss the meat!

Pork Pozole

Pork Pozole

Tom Douglas is a big name in the restaurant business here in Seattle. His chefs prepared Smoky Pork Pozole for Lish (a former online meal delivery service). I loved the flavors! I knew I had to try and recreate it. Most of the recipes I found online used tomatoes instead of tomatillos. So, I decided to try and recreate the one I ate and this one is very close.

blackened mahi mahi tacos

blackened mahi mahi tacos

I recently tested this recipe on my family for Cinco De Mayo. My family has many different types of eaters (vegans, pescatarians and meat) , so I decided to create a taco that tastes like a steak but is indeed a delicious fish. This recipe is sweet, salty and spicy.

Treasure Island Chili with Lime Crema

Treasure Island Chili with Lime Crema

This chili really lives up to its name — it truly is discovered treasure. This hearty, perfectly balanced chili boasts flavor combinations that you didn’t even know were possible and proves once and for all that chili really can be a gourmet meal.