Dawna in the Kitchen

This is based on a Mayan recipe for a very simple black bean soup with big, striking flavours. It is easy to cook the beans the day before,...

Those of you who saw last week's post of Korean-Mexican Braised Short Ribs are (hopefully) already looking forward to this recipe, whi...

My first experience of Korean-Mexican fusion was a Korean Taco Truck in Vancouver a few years back. Almost immediately, curiosity overwhel...

There used to be a restaurant called "Latin Quarter" on Vancouver's Commercial Drive. In its heyday it was renowned as a plac...

This is too good an idea not to try, especially if you find you need to use up a bunch of corn tortillas. For smaller families, those pack...

Happy Canada Day, everyone! Now, "enchilada" may not be the most Canadian thing you've ever heard of, but we do seem to enjoy ...

This is a great little recipe, which I've only slightly adapted from Cook This! Not That!, and really mostly in terms of adding a few m...

Unlike the rest of North America, Summer still hasn't really arrived in Vancouver. We get occasional days where it feels like Summer i...

I fell in love with these in Mexico. They came with tacos, on tortas, with meltingly tender cochinita pibil, and elegantly draped over poc...

My worldwide bento lunch theme continues with Mexico. The crumbly meat mixture is in fact picadillo, a ground meat filling used to stuff int...

For Canada Day, we went out for British pub food. For America Day, we stayed in and made Mexican food. It seemed strangely appropriate.I r...

It may not seem like salad weather to everyone out there, with the sudden, aggressive return of sub-zero temperatures. The poor cherry tree...

I'm always intrigued when I am exploring another cuisine, and I find that there is a common use of an ingredient that I do not associate...

Last year, I had a Cinco de Mayo party; this year, I am not so organized. Cinco de Mayo commemorates the victory of the drastically outnumbe...

Don't let anyone tell you that you can't make quesadillas out of leftover aloo gobi. Because you totally can. I used to make pizza...