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  • Green Chile Chicken Enchiladas

    Green Chile Chicken Enchiladas

    Bykara May 5May 12 Cooking, Recipes

    If you read Sunday’s post, you already know what these are doing here today. If you didn’t, the short version is: I’m a Texan, it’s Cinco de Mayo week, and I’m cooking what I actually cook on Cinco de Mayo, which is Tex-Mex, made by a Texan, with full honesty about what it is and…

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  • a square pitcher of sun tea, brewing on the front door step. There is purple catmint and a cream rosebush in the background. The tea is a light golden color with green tags hanging out of the pitcher.

    What Cinco de Mayo Actually Is (and Why I Still Make Enchiladas)

    Bykara May 3April 28 Food & Politics, Personal

    I did not grow up observing Cinco de Mayo. Nobody in my Texas family did. It wasn’t a holiday in the way Christmas or Thanksgiving or even the Fourth of July was a holiday; it was a date on the calendar that occasionally meant something at school and otherwise didn’t. In college it became an…

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