Old Mexico Home Cooking: Simple Tortillas, Beans, Salsas & Everyday Meals Made the Traditional Way & Niche Cooking Book

Old Mexico Home Cooking is a survival guide for real life—where the rent is due, groceries keep going up, and you still want your kitchen to smell like something warm and homemade.Instead of restaurant-style “Mexican” food loaded with pricey cheese and steak, this book takes you inside small Old Mexico kitchens, where meals are built from tortillas, beans, rice, eggs, potatoes, a little meat, and a lot of ingenuity.If you can afford masa, dry beans, rice, a few vegetables, and some eggs, you can cook from this book.Inside you’ll find:10 practical chapters, 50+ recipes built around the cheapest staples: tortillas & masa, beans, rice & noodles, salsas, eggs & potatoes, stretching soups, cheap meats, vegetables & sides, masa “magic,” and budget desserts & drinks.Tortillas, gorditas & masa basics that turn a bag of masa harina into warm tortillas, sopes, huaraches, quesadillas, empanadas, and simple tamales that actually fill people up.Beans and rice that really feed a family—pot beans from scratch, refried beans, charro beans, lentil soup, Mexican red rice, garlic white rice, fideo soups, and simple bean tacos.Everyday plates for tight weeks: huevos a la Mexicana, papas con chorizo, potato tacos, migas, rice-and-egg plates, and big pots of caldo, lentil soup, and albóndigas that stretch over days.Cheap meat done right: home-style carnitas from a small pork shoulder, picadillo with potatoes, chicken tinga that flavors a whole pot, steak-and-onion tacos, and pork in salsa verde—always paired with beans, rice, and tortillas so the meat goes further.Bright, fresh sides that fight boredom—calabacitas, nopales, cabbage slaw, street-style corn, pickled onions and jalapeños, and a handful of salsas that make the same beans and rice taste new all week.Simple sweets & drinks that don’t wreck your budget: arroz con leche, sweet tamales, atole, agua de jamaica, and honest hot chocolate made from cocoa, sugar, and spice—not expensive mixes.Every recipe includes:Serving size, prep & cook timeSimple tools (nothing fancy required)Ingredients in both US customary & metricClear, step-by-step instructionsA short cook’s tip and a quick nutrition snapshot so you know what’s actually filling people upYou don’t need a big kitchen, a huge budget, or specialty gadgets to cook like this—just a pot, a pan, a comal or skillet, and a little time.If you’re craving real Old Mexico comfort food on a small budget—the kind of food that keeps everyone fed, warmed up, and cared for—scroll up and add Old Mexico Home Cooking to your cart and let your pantry do more than you thought it could.