Kitchen & Cooking

Molcajete y Tejolete – aka My Continuing Refusal to Make Things Easy

I have a perfectly respectable modern kitchen. I have electricity. I have a blender. I have various other appliances designed to make food preparation faster, easier and considerably less physical. I can press a button and have something chopped, blended, pulverized or otherwise transformed into something edible. And yet I own a molcajete y tejolote.

Tikka Masala

Dinner tonght. When I look at a plate of chicken tikka masala and green beans, I like to think I am making a reasonably intelligent contribution to my own nutritional well-being, although I have never actually consulted anyone qualified to make that determination. The chicken gives me protein, the green beans provide vegetables and fiber,