Fresh Mango Salsa

This mango salsa is so refreshing, spicy, and fabulous as a dip with chips or as a topping for grilled seafood or fish tacos. 

When mangoes are available, I love to make this mango salsa. It's great for a snack with chips, on salads, and as a topping for grilled fish or chicken. It's so juicy too, and, just like my recipe for grilled pineapple salsa, this salsa adds some acid to your favorite short rib or carnitas tacos. 

Grilled Pineapple and Red Onion Salsa

This Grilled Pineapple and Red Onion Salsa is delicious served with tortilla chips as an appetizer. It's also fabulous spooned over grilled fish or added to tacos.

I even mixed some leftovers of this grilled pineapple and red onion salsa into leftover shredded red chili short rib meat and wrapped the mixture into some hot tortillas and topped them with shredded lettuce. The flavors were wonderfully sweet and savory.

Guajillo-Braised Beef Short Rib Tacos

These Guajillo-Braised Beef Short Rib Tacos are succulent, spicy, and so darn good!

 These short rib tacos are so beefy and drippy with the guajillo based sauce. If you are not careful, your hands, arms, and probably your clothes will show evidence that you enjoyed these tacos.

Pear Salsa

Asian pears, red onion, Serrano chiles, fresh cilantro, fresh mint leaves, and lime juice combine together to make a delicious and fragrant salsa, excellent for serving with good tortilla chips.

This pear salsa is also delicious spooned over fish fillets, such as halibut or salmon.

Beer Braised Carnitas

These carnitas are braised in a broth of beer flavored with garlic, bay leaf, cumin, coriander, cinnamon, and chiles.

Carnitas, cut up pork shoulder braised with chiles and other spices, and then fried until crispy in their own fat, are a favorite Mexican dish, especially here in California.

Beef Short Rib Enchiladas with Chiles and Tomatillo Sauce

These Beef Short Rib Enchiladas with Chiles and Tomatillo Sauce are loaded with flavor. The beef short ribs are simmered for almost three hours in a stock with chiles, garlic, red wine, and lots of thyme, giving the meat a deeply rich flavor.

These Beef Short Rib Enchiladas with Ancho and Hatch Chiles are made with flour tortillas rather than corn, and topped with a tomatillo and jalapeño sauce.