For Lent, I finally cooked my mother’s capirotada recipe. It was OK — and that’s OK Maria de la Luz Arellano, making gorditas at her home in Anaheim in 2018.

1/2 cup Mexican queso blanco, shredded or thinly sliced Cook’s notes: Piloncillo is a Mexican dark brown sugar with a high molasses content. 1. In a large saucepan, boil water with the next four ...

2. Melt the butter and toss the cubed bread in the butter to coat the bread slightly and toast in the oven for 5 minutes 3. Combine water, piloncillo, cinnamon sticks, and cloves in a large ...

Lenten Capirotada Recipe Ingredients 4 bolillos, sliced and toasted 1 piloncillo cone 3 cinnamon sticks ½ cup raisins 1 cup mozzarella cheese ½ cup whole peanuts ¼ cup shredded coconut Rainbow ...

Norma Zaragoza’s pudding—her mom’s recipe—is a crusty, chewy-soft textural marvel studded with raisins, peanuts, and coconut. There’s also a secret ingredient in the syrup.

3. Capirotada, bread pudding soaked in piloncillo syrup, is baked with fresh guava, dried fruit and nuts. 4. Serve capirotada with whipped cream if you like.

Petra's capirotada Recipe submitted by Juanita MORE! San Francisco, Calif. Ingredients 12 ounces of piloncillo, chopped (or light brown sugar) 2 1/4 cups water 1 cinnamon stick (4-inch) ...

His mother’s recipe seemed simple enough. So I decided to give it a try for a dinner party. It was an unmitigated disaster. Now granted, I made at least one significant mistake.

I wrote the eulogy to praise her while she was alive but also as a warning to the living: learn the wisdom of your elders before it’s too late. Accompanying the piece was a recipe for my Mami ...

I was trying to make capirotada, the bread pudding that Mexicans on both sides of the border prepare every Lent. I was already failing my late mother. In 2019, I […] ...

But when Lent came in 2020, we were all quarantining in our respective homes — and capirotada for one is no fun. I couldn’t bring myself to try last year because springtime just made me sad ...