A few days later, Grandma came home from the store with a couple of loaves of inexpensive sliced white sandwich bread, a 5-pound bag of shredded Monterey Jack cheese, a bag of brown sugar, shelled ...

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. Time to start planning that menu — and make sure you include a chocolate dessert! Chocolate is considered an aphrodisiac for two reasons. It contains ...

A modest dish that combines humble ingredients with holy symbolism makes a special Mexican dessert beloved during Lent and at Easter. It’s capirotada, a simple bread pudding that forgoes the common ...

This time of year, one of the most popular items at Café Navarro in the Nix Medical Center building is its capirotada, the Mexican bread pudding. This version is pure Tex-Mex. It uses butter-toasted ...

Sweet and savory capirotada was an expression of Grandmother Petra's love for her family, especially at Christmastime. She never wrote it down, so... All Things We're Cooking is a series featuring ...

One of the great things about capirotada are all the variations. Some start with fried bolillos, while some are made with raisins and topped with salty cotija cheese. In Jalisco, you find a style of ...

Hot cross buns, osterbrot, babka, kulich, pane di pasqua — Easter is all about the bread. Nearly every culture that celebrates Easter has a traditional bread that gets kneaded, shaped and baked to ...

THESE days, when just about any topic can provoke a debate, you can add bread pudding to the list. How is that possible, you might wonder, with something so homey and comforting and, well, inert?

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. Time to start planning that menu — and make sure you include a chocolate dessert! Chocolate is considered an aphrodisiac for two reasons. It contains ...