Recipes:

Seriously, it is the best ever - and, it costs just pennies to make!

Sometimes when you eat authentic Mexican food, they give you this salsa made with tomatoes, onions, and jalapenos.

This is a great recipe for authentic Mexican taqueria style carne asada tacos (beef tacos). These are served on the soft corn tortillas, unlike the American version of tacos.

Chunks of cod are fried in a beer batter, and served in corn tortillas with shredded cabbage and a zesty white sauce.

This recipe makes a lot, but if you're going to go to all the trouble of making tamales from scratch, you might as well have a party!

These fried, sweet burrito-like bundles are stuffed with a tried-and-true mixture of banana slices, butter, brown sugar and spiced rum.

Better make plenty - these disappear fast. The unbaked dough may be frozen. The baked cookies may also be frozen.

Mexican Cuisine

Undoubtedly an important part of Mexican culture is its varied cuisine. When Christopher Columbus started his search for valuable species in 1492, instead of arriving in India, he found America, sparking off the conquest of countries which like México opened the world to new culinary horizons with its universal donation of vanilla, avocado, corn, tomato and chocolate, among others.

In México there are great regions which have their own gastronomic art. Due to their variety and deliciousness the cuisine of Puebla, Oaxaca and Yucatán stand out, however one must not forget the recipes from Bajío (central part of the country) or the cuisine of the border states. However, it is not the objective of this homepage to give a paper on the very varied and rich Mexican cuisine, but to present the basic recipes with the understanding that the elements needed for their preparation are easily available in Denmark, which is not the case of the ingredients needed for more sophisticated dishes.

Mexican food is popular throughout the world. But the kind you're probably used to -tacos with guacamole, quesadillas, enchiladas and carnitas- is only a small part of this country's culinary repertoire. With it's variety of indigenous civilizations, each region in México is marked by a distinct aroma, taste and texture.

In central México you'll find a blend of Aztec and Spanish. Typical is the centuries old "mole poblano", a thick, dark sauce made with dried chiles, nuts, seeds, spices, cocoa and other ingredients.

Southern México, with its variety of dried peppers, is famous for its savoury herbed stews and sauces.

Seafood, garnished with tomatoes and herbs followed by rich coffee is the basic meal along the Pacific Coast. And in the Yucatán Península, dinner is likely to be a Mayan delicacy like "pork pibil" cooked in banana leaves with the famed "achiote" sauce.

Mexican Cheeses:

The only way to make food taste authentically Mexican is to use authentic ingredients. Take a trip to an Hispanic market and you'll discover a wide range of dried spices and fresh herbs, dozens of chile varieties, and several key cheeses that transform gringo-style Mexican food into true home style Mexican cooking. Mexican cheeses, though, can be hard to select if you're not familiar with them, because each cheese type has its own distinctive cooking, melting and flavoring attributes. Queso means cheese in Spanish, and Hispanic cheeses can be grouped into three basic types: fresh cheeses, melting cheeses and hard cheeses. In addition to cheeses, thick, tangy creams or cremas play an important part of a finished dish. To learn more about the different types of mexican cheeses click here. . .