Today's Special
What do three Australian teenagers know about Mexican food? Apparently, quite a bit!
Raylee, Nikki and
Teresa cooked up "Today's Special" as
an entry in the Tafe Workskills Competition.
The girls start their journey with a description of how
different people in Mexico prepare and eat meals. They bring up one point that many of us
overlook - meal timing. In Mexico the typical large meal is lunch - not dinner. Out side
of Mexico light lunches are more popular with a large dinner in the evening.
They follow with examples of typical Mexican recipes. These simplified recipes are
detailed and complete. They have altered some ingredients to be more suitable to the
Australian food market. however, they have also provided details missing in other recipes
such as how to use
a tortilla press and the art of finding the right
texture for guacamole. The details are the beauty of this site. You may have read the
recipe for a frijoles so many times you skim past it in new cookbooks. How many of those
recipes told you that you should keep adding water
to heating beans until you have a thick soup? Does your recipe book suggest sandwich bags
to line your tortilla press? Or mixing guacamole by hand?
There are a couple places in this site where I feel like I am being fed regurgitated
facts from students who have not tried these recipes. However, the site is educational and
well put together overall.
This site also houses similar information on the following countries.
France | Italy | Germany | Greece | Russia | India | Thailand | China | Australia
Note: You may encounter apparent misspellings or grammar mistakes that can be
distracting - But the recipes and methods are worth the time to read (and try). Don't
forget that the Internet is a global media.
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