Traditional pork carnitas are crispy, tender, and delicious. Here are two great recipes for how to make carnitas at home.

Create your own Mexican specialties with this essential building block for tacos, burritos, enchiladas, and much, much more.

Oaxaca's famed gastronomy is complex and varied, and the cooking and eating of insects dates back to pre-hispanic times: grasshoppers, caterpillars and ants' eggs are some of the local specialities.

This easy recipe for chicken tacos makes soft tacos with authentic Mexican flavor in just 30 minutes.

Chocolate Flan Cake is an easy Mexican dessert recipe that is both delicious and impressive

If you believe that one oregano is much like another, you are mistaken! The oregano which most of us use in our cooking, whether fresh or dried, is Origanum Vulgare, native to the Mediterranean and part of the mint family. Mexican oregano, on the other hand, is not actually an oregano at all.

Huevos del albañil are a typical, traditional breakfast throughout the country, although a popular variation is to toss some stale tortillas into the sauce to make green “chilaquiles” which serve as a bed for the eggs.

Arrachera is the name for Mexican Barbequed Beef. This delicious dish is composed of marinated and grilled skirt steak, thinly sliced, and served with tortillas and a variety of side dishes.

Wondering what to do with your leftover turkey? This sauce is perfect with grilled or roasted poultry, and is the heart and soul of Mexican cooking.

Epazote grows wild in Mexico and spread from there across America and eventually to southern Europe and beyond, but outside its homeland, it is seen as a weed rather than a culinary herb – only in central and southern Mexico does it play an essential role and find its way into the cooking pot.