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Mexican Christmas Traditions

Tercer año

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On this day three years ago, we took our wedding vows in front of family and friends. First, in a small Catholic church ceremony with our parents and witnesses at the historic Misión de San José del Cabo, and then a beach Mass* with all our family and friends. This is one of my favorite photos from our wedding day, sharing a private moment steps from the deep blue rolling waves in a small cove between two rock crops.

You can read more about our wedding, including details on the church, more photos, the reception... and of course, the menu, in last year's anniversary post. Lately I've been thinking about recreating recipes from our wedding menu, so hopefully I can get in the test kitchen soon.

If I got the chance to do it all over again, I'd do just about everything the same, but in slow motion so it wouldn't go by as fast! Lucky for me, I have a wedding video to remember every moment by. We'll be watching it and toasting with champagne over the weekend.

I'll have to dig out some more photos to share here soon. Many friends reminded us today of their memories from our wedding extravaganza week and it made me want to go searching for photos from different parts of the day and the reception to take it all in and have each and every moment rush back into my memory.

Thanks for reading The Other Side of The Tortilla and following along on our journey. Please join us in toasting to many more years of wedded bliss!

José: te quiero con todo mi corazón. Siempre. —Maura

*Catholic Mass is not typically celebrated outside of the church; we brought our own family priest who agreed to perform a second ceremony on the beach after we had a ceremony in the church. Most beach weddings in Mexico are symbolic or civil ceremonies.

Flores de calabaza at the farmers market

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I've been stalking visiting my local farmers markets lately looking for flor de calabaza. And every week since they started bringing them three weeks ago, I've arrived too late because they sold out before 9 or 10 A.M. So this past weekend, I got up early on Saturday hoping to get my hands on some, only to discover I'd arrived just a bit too late.

But my lovely friends at Nichols Farm advised me to show up at another market location they visit on Sunday mornings in Wicker Park and to arrive just before they opened. I got there just before 8 A.M. and was able to get a big bunch (15 flowers!) as well as snap these photos with the bucket still full of florecitas!...

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Más queridas del mes: julio

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If you’re new here, or even if you're a frequent visitor, here are the past month’s most visited posts for you to check out and enjoy. If you missed these when they were originally posted, then they’re new to you, and if there’s something you’ve already read but just haven’t tried before, I challenge you to make it and share it with someone you love! Then send us a picture so we can share with everyone! You can click on each button to be taken to that post.

Did you miss last month's "Best of The Tortilla" feature? You can find the top 4 posts of June here.

TOP 4 POSTS OF JULY

 

  • What’s your favorite post from The Tortilla in the last month? It can be old or new, listed above or not, but we want to know!

Wordless Wednesday: quesadilla de huitlacoche

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Over the weekend José and I had dinner at Fogón, an upscale Mexican restaurant that opened this spring in a neighborhood near where we live. I'll write more about it another time, but I had to share a photo of this earthy-tasting, perfectly over-stuffed quesadilla I ate as an appetizer—it had cheese and huitlacoche (also known as corn smut or corn truffle), epazote, salsa rustica with black beans and was topped with a small dollop of creme fraiche and light greens. It's the culinary equivalent of black gold! (More on the topic of huitlacoche soon, I promise!)

  • How do you like to eat huitlacoche? Have you ever had it before?

Win the grill of your dreams from Holland House!

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The summer heat must have us going giveaway crazy! (And there's more where that came from too, wink wink!)

Through the #MizkanLatino cooking challenge that we were selected to be a part of, which will continue this month with challenge no. 2, they're offering fans of Holland House products the chance to win a $2,000 grill of your dreams or other great prizes instantly.

All you have to do to enter is "Like" the Holland House Facebook fan page. The sweepstakes ends on Friday, August 5, so hurry and enter for a chance to win!

If you missed the first recipe of the challenge, check out our video recipe for Mexican chimichurri-marinated flank steak. It was a HUGE hit at our Fourth of July party and everybody crowded the grill for a bite!

Stay tuned next Monday for another great recipe as part of the challenge. The theme is "sabroso grilling" and I can't wait to show you the recipe I created! No doubt it'll have you saying ¡Que rico!

 

Disclosure: This post is part of a sponsored series to promote Mizkan cooking wines, vinegars, marinades and sweepstakes of interest to our readers. We also received samples of Mizkan’s Holland House, Nakano and World Harbor brand products and promotional material from Mizkan to assist in preparing the recipe posts. All opinions and recipes in this series are our own.