Tag Archives: Mexican cuisine

Veggie Chili Recipe

By Mariely Lopez, a Nutrition Communication Undergraduate at Arizona State University   Brace yourselves because the recipe that I am about to share with you is filled with so many flavors your taste buds are going to explode! I will … Continue reading

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How Do You Eat Your Corn?

June 11th is National Corn on the Cob Day and we thought that offered a great opportunity to talk about Arizona corn. While corn is also used for animal feed and other purposes, more than half of the corn grown … Continue reading

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It’s Salsa Month – Let’s Heat Things Up

It there is a condiment that better elicits the flavors synonymous with Arizona and the Southwest than salsa, we don’t know what it is! Salsa comes from the Spanish word for sauce and is the term used to describe a … Continue reading

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30 Things to Do with Tomatillos

Found in many Mexican dishes, tomatillos are also the main ingredient in most of the green sauces associated with Mexican and Central American cuisine.  Although they feature heavily in green sauce recipes, these small members of the nightshade family grow … Continue reading

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50 Fun Things to Do with Sweet Peppers

Here in Arizona, peppers are usually the hot and spicy kind, but since this month is bell pepper month, we thought we would invite you to celebrate a whole different kind of pepper.  Bell peppers, which are also called sweet … Continue reading

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