Tag: Chile Ancho

Chile Ancho Meatballs, The Arab Influence on Mexican Cuisine

Chile Ancho Meatballs, The Arab Influence on Mexican Cuisine

Albóndigas illustrate the dynamism of food pathways, the routes by which foods travel via bird flights, human wars, marriages, etc.  As it travels, food changes, adapts into new cultural types.  This Texas Mexican meatball, albóndiga, originally comes to us from the Spaniards who arrived in […]

Carne Con Chile a.k.a. “Chili”

Carne Con Chile a.k.a. “Chili”

I’ve refrained from publishing this post because here in Coahuila, Texas,  everybody and her/his cow has the authentic Texas “chili” recipe. Yup, replete with that “secret ingredient” and those implausible anecdotes about a cow falling into a vat of chiles, a deer getting stewed by […]