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During the annual Lenten period, many Christians abstain from meat on Fridays. There are so many dishes you can make when meat is off the table, like sheet-pan spanakopita quesadillas (heck yes!), ...

It was during one of my classes at SMU that I saw the word: Capirotada. It was my first year in grad school. My first year living in Dallas. I read it in one of those books highlighting Mexican ...

More than any other dish, capirotada is a dessert identified as the most traditional of Mexican cuisine during the Lent season. Many Hispanics have memories of their grandmothers or mothers preparing ...

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Mention capirotada to María Castro, and she's lost in memories of a hard but happy childhood in the Mexican countryside. Mention it to Laura Murillo, and she's transported to the sights and scents of ...

The bread was burned. Smoke swirled around the frying pan. Most of the cheese had turned moldy. And where was that last, crucial tomatillo husk? I was trying to make capirotada, the bread pudding that ...

Easter is this Sunday, which concludes my favorite food holiday: Lent. And the showstopper: capirotada, the layered bread pudding that’s the de facto Mexican dessert for Lent. Every family bakes their ...