Chicken thigh recipes, tips, tricks, and techniques for home cooks
Fajitas are the mainstay of every mid-market Mexican joint in America. And they’re not really even Mexican. They’re Tex-Mex, as my father liked to remind us almost every Friday night. He was a big fan of telling us “there were no Fajitas when I was growing up in southern Arizona!” […]
If you’re a frequent reader, you already know this, but I ate a lot of Mexican food when I was a kid. I mean a lot. This was sort of weird in Ohio in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, but my Dad grew up in the Sonoran Desert of […]
Thanks for visiting The Chicken Thigh Guy. Check out my other project, The Weekly Menu too! Pollo a la Veracruzana – Chicken Veracruz. You may have seen this combination of tomatoes, peppers, onion, olives and capers on menus – though it’s more common as a sauce for fish, it’s a […]
Pollo en Salsa Cacahuate, chicken slowly braised with chili peppers, herbs, and ground peanuts, is probably unfamiliar to most Americans. I was unfamiliar with it until i came across recipes a few years ago, while researching Mexican dishes that I could serve to a large crowd for an event. Recipes […]
Today is a day that everyone in the states thinks is a big holiday in Mexico, but isn’t really. Mostly we think that because lots of companies want to sell us tequila and corn chips and avocados and more tequila. Regardless of that, it’s also Tuesday, and a quarantimes Tuesday […]
I was in High School when I first encountered Pozole. Shortly after my Grandmother died, my whole family spent the holidays in Tucson, where my father grew up. Though I’d been exposed to Mexican foods my whole life, my mother and local restaurants had made do with what was available […]
Note: This is one of two chicken pozole recipes I’m posting this week. For more about the recipes, their origins, and to see the other more refined recipes, click here. This is a dish I taught myself in high school, possibly a heresy, a recipe I either dug out of […]
Note: This is one of two Chicken Thigh Pozole recipes I’m posting this week. For more on their origins and difference, click here. Once I was out in the world, out of my mom’s kitchen and living on my own on the other side of the country, I learned that […]
Mole Poblano is one of the great sauces of the world: a complex, warming, rich mixture of spices, fruit, chilis, and chocolate from Puebla in Central Mexico. It’s one of those sauces that is somehow more than the sum of its parts. This is remarkable in that most good moles […]
I don’t know when I first encountered this soup. My father grew up in southern Arizona, so my family was constantly on the lookout for good Mexican food in our area. More than a few places we frequented over the years served small, hot bowls of caldo de pollo, heady […]