winter harvest salad

Winter Harvest Salad

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This marinated spicy salad is rather like the traditional Mexican Christmas Eve Salad and takes advantage of fall vegetables. Substitute celery for the jicama, add oranges or apples, and you have a lower-fat take on a Waldorf salad.

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Avocado Madness!

Dave DeWitt Cooking with Chiles, Fired-Up Fruits, In the Kitchen with Chile Peppers Leave a Comment

by Dave DeWitt Don’t believe all those people who tell you avocado is a vegetable, because it’s not.  It’s a fruit just like mangos, pears, tomatoes, chiles, and apples.  It just happens to pair well with some vegetables like lettuce, especially in salads, so that’s why people think it’s a veggie.  It’s one of my favorite fruits, along with mangos …

Yo Soy un Chiltepínero!

Dave DeWitt Cooking with Chiles, In the Kitchen with Chile Peppers, Making Salsa and Hot Sauce, Mexico and Central America Leave a Comment

 By Dave DeWitt Above, the Sierra Madre, Home of Chiltepins My amigo Antonio swears that the motto of the Sonoran bus lines is “Better Dead Than Late,” and I believe him.  The smoke-belching buses were flying by us on curves marked by shrines commemorating the unfortunate drivers whose journeys through life had abruptly ended on this mountain road.  We waved …