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A guide to cooking when a restaurant just won’t do.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We have had some wonderful meals in Mexico. It’s pretty easy to find fine dining as well as sumptuous street food. However, some of the most memorable ones were when we had a cheap hotel with a kitchenette.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So let’s start with some ground rules. Even the best apportioned kitchenettes usually have a hodge-podge of utensils and cookware; bent frypans, oversized spoons, an occasional fork, pots that you have to hold with one hand or it’ll fall over. It makes for an adventure and a lot of laughter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Always take an electric skillet. It’ll get you by when you can’t put together what you need in a Mr. Potato Head kitchen. You can also use the skillet to pack all your other kitchen goodies below.<\/li>
  2. Take spices in a baggie. Baggies take up less space than the original spice container. Salt is easy to find but pepper, not so much and the baggie keeps the humidity away.<\/li>
  3. Take baggies. Always save those tortillas and leftovers from restaurants. The locals will be impressed with your frugality. <\/li>
  4. A cutting board.<\/li>
  5. A decent kitchen knife, maybe two.<\/li>
  6. A spatula. Comes in handy for cooking and spanking. <\/li>
  7. Scissors. Just don’t run with them.<\/li>
  8. Rubber bands to shoot at each other while cooking. Plus they’re handy holding the electric skillet lid on while traveling.<\/li>
  9. Paper towels. You know you’ll need ’em.<\/li>
  10. A multi-functional can opener. Opens your cans. Opens your beer.<\/li>
  11. Matches. Few stoves you encounter spark up on their own. <\/li>
  12. Tin Foil. Combine this with the rubber bands for hours of creative fun.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    It can also be fun to shop for this stuff but you’re gonna have to get your Spanish on. And good luck with that. Head to the mercado municipal and enjoy your shopping experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    The absolute, number one thing to buy in Mexico: Microdyn<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Microdyn is essential if you use fresh veggies and fruit. It will keep self inflicted Moctezuma’s revenge away. Just a few drops does the trick but read the directions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    My long time friend and master chef Jim Overby once told me, “If you have to measure you don’t belong in a kitchen.” We might of been drinking but still, I’ll leave the quantities pretty much up to you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Sarin Gas Salsa<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    If you don’t do this in the right order you can clear a city block. Adults and small children will run into the streets to get away from the choking fumes wafting through the kitchen. “Someone save the baby!” You’ve been warned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n