Comfort with a kick: Roasted Chili Cumin Chicken with Pickled Red Onions

This Mexican street food-inspired dish packs big flavor, but not too much heat. Two recipes from the archives—and a wedding story—below.

Roasted Chili Cumin Chicken with Pickled Red Onions

At some point, I’m not sure when, Mexican restaurant food became relegated to comfort food status for us. Something we could count on to be reliably good, filling and cheap, but no longer something we got a hankering for. It wasn’t always this way. At one point, Marion and I ate at a Mexican restaurant in our neighborhood at least once a week for a year or more. In fact, we went there on our wedding night, before going barhopping with my mom and my brand new sister-in-law. [read more here…]

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  1. Two great posts from the archives! I hadn’t seen either one of them, so I’m grateful they’ve resurfaced. Mexican food is a real craving for us — if we go too long without a fix, we get kind of edgy. 😉 Fun reads — thanks.

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