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for the Mexican Cooking

Classes and Local Market Tours

in Puerto Escondido.

 Individuals, Small Groups, and Families.

The Mexican Salsa Cooking Classes offer lessons concentrating on salsas.

Learn to Make Some Killer Salsas for Your Next Fiesta back home.

Learn to Prepare Fantastic Salsas.

The Salsa Cooking Classes include a multi-course lunch planned & prepared

exclusively by The Mexykan.*

In the Salsa Class, you enjoy Delicious Handmade Oaxacan Antojitos, Guacamole, Oven Roasted Meat*, Mexican Rice with Tomatoes Criollos, Oaxacan Black Beans de Olla, and More.

*Private Salsa Classes can be tailored to meet your dietary restrictions.

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Vamos a Cocinar!

The Mexican Cooking Class & Local Market Tour.

This class offers an insider’s look in the Benito Juarez Market in Puerto Escondido.  We start the day at a local comedor / Mexican diner for Oaxacan breakfast and Fresh Squeezed Juice.  Here we experience the sights, sounds, and smells of the market while shopping for local ingredients.   We check out the unique chiles native to Oaxaca. Learn how to buy, prepare and utilize them.

After we tour the market we head into the kitchen to prepare a sumptuous lunch in the cooking class.

In the Mexican Cooking Classes and Market Tours you will prepare a multi-course menu with local ingredients for lunch.*

We usually prepare two salsas, guacamole y tostadas, a main course for example of mole amarillo, chiles rellenos or homestyle carnitas – just to name a few of the possibilities. Plus veggies, rice, beans along with fresh fruits and cheese to finish and MORE.

*Private Cooking Classes can be tailored to your dietary needs.

Prepare Mexican Dishes and Mexican Salsas usually served only in the home, rarely in restaurants.

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Enjoy and Savor Mexican Culinary Traditions.

Below is an Excerpt from enViva Magazine. Author Brian Overcast

Click here for full article.

Mi misión imposible: El mole

Un desafío más me esperaba en Puerto Escondido: aprender a hacer mole. Igual que con el surf, que nunca me imaginé capaz de practicar, jamás pensé que podría pasar de abrir un frasco de mole y agregarle caldo, a prepararlo desde cero.

“No sé por qué a este platillo le llaman mole amarillo; es más bien rojizo y anaranjado”, me comentó mientras salíamos al patio a cortar hoja santa para saltear el camarón. Todo fluía en esta cocina: los frijoles negros y el arroz estuvieron listos a tiempo, y me reí para mis adentros cuando me imaginé intentando lo mismo en mi cocina. Mejor disfrutar de este momento, y de la cremosa y tibia salsa de mole vertida sobre los jugosos camarones; una delicia con la nota picante perfecta.

“Invigorated by having successfully
flown across water on a board, I was
ready for my next challenge: making
mole. I headed to the market in Puerto
Escondido to meet my mole instructor,
Tony. First, he took me shopping, intently
examining each chili [sic]and vegetable.
In his personal kitchen, he chopped and
stirred and mixed away—everything
just flowed naturally, and I chuckled
just thinking about attempting this on
my own. Better just enjoy this moment,
I thought, as the creamy mole sauce
poured over the shrimp. And I did.”

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Travels in Mexico FEB 25 Posted by Ted Campbelll

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Travels in Mexico

FEB 25

Posted by Ted Campbell

Probably my favorite thing about living in Mexico—among many favorite things—is that a short drive, bus ride, or flight can take you to a whole other world.

Every corner of Mexico has pretty towns, ancient ruins, and natural areas like sunny beaches, lush jungle, and towering mountains.

Below are some photos from my travels during the past four months.

Next to the town of Xilitla, in a mountainous sub-tropical region called the Huasteca Potosina, the surrealistic garden Las Pozas is a fascinating place to explore. Built (but unfinished) by the eccentric English artist and art patron Edward James between 1949 and 1984, Las Pozas is a series of poured-concrete structures and buildings surrounded by jungle at the foot of mountains, which even has big waterfalls and swimming holes.

You can climb on practically everything, and every path going through deeper jungle leads to more structures, most overgrown by creeping forest. Mysterious and bizarre, it reminded me of visiting ancient ruins, though with a different history and architecture, of course.

The entire Huasteca Potosina region has streams and waterfalls, some for swimming and jumping.

Closer to where I live, the Nevado de Toluca volcano—its native name is Xinantecatl—is a scenic and very high place to do some hiking.

Two lakes are inside the huge crater:

This dry flower grows all over the slopes of the volcano:

Sierra Morelos park is right next to the town of Toluca, about an hour away from the volcano:

Small homes, farms, and even some ancient ruins can be found on the slopes of the mountains.

Below is Calixtlahuaca, the ruins of a Pre-hispanic city:

Far away at the easternmost part of Mexico are the white-sand beaches and turquoise water of the Mayan Riviera on the Mexican Caribbean coast. Below is Puerto Morelos, about halfway between Cancun and Playa del Carmen:

The island of Cozumel:

The virgin in the Cozumel public market:

A little to the south of Playa del Carmen is Punto Venado, which has excellent mountain bike trails through the jungle and along the coast. On my ride I saw crocodiles, lots of iguanas, and a big family of coati—something like a tropical raccoon that lives in the trees in groups, like monkeys.

Flamingos and other birds in the Xaman-Ha Bird Sanctuary near Playa del Carmen, in the Playacar gated community:

And of course the world-famous Mayan ruins of Chichen Itza:

On the other side of Mexico on the Pacific coast, the beach-lined bay of Acapulco is a five-hour drive from where I live, perfect for a long weekend. You can get a nice, reasonably-priced hotel right on the beach with views like this:

Sunset over the ocean at Acapulco:

Thanks for visiting. Stories to follow for some of these places…

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About Ted Campbell

U.S.-Canadian writer, translator and university teacher in Mexico. Travel stories and practical tips on my blog No Hay Bronca: nohaybronca.wordpress.com Twitter: @NoHayBroncaBlog // Contact: nohaybroncablog (at) gmail.com

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