Welcome to the Gringo Kitchen!

Thanks for stopping by. Inspired by -- well, actually, copying from -- one of my favorite blogs, French Laundry at Home, I decided to launch a similar project: cooking every recipe in a single cookbook. While FLAH is geared, I think, to gaining an appreciation for striving to be a perfectionist, as Thomas Keller puts it, my focus is different. I want to learn a new style of cooking and gain an appreciation for something that I have glimpsed, but rarely experienced fully: true Mexican cooking. And, with a new baby around, I don't really have the time or the flexibility to focus on something so audacious. (That and Chef Armstrong from my favorite restaurant hasn't written a cookbook yet.) I'm not a big fan of Tex-Mex food and other Americanized versions of Mexican food, but I am a fan of more authentic styles of Mexican cooking, which ultimately led me to Rick and Deann Groen Bayless's Authentic Mexican cookbook. I have prepared a few of the recipes in the cookbook, but I thought that jumping in with both feet might be the way to go. I hope I enjoy it, and I hope you do, too.