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Blog Round Up

We’re getting really excited about Dia De Los Muertos which is now less than 2 weeks away, and we’ve got lots of exciting plans for you, so keep your eyes on the blog to find out more. In the mean time, we loved Ruth Alegria’s blog post, that shows some highlights from what Mexico City will be offering up, plus it gives you enough info become an overnight aficionado and impress the pantalones off all of your pals.

Now, concentrate everyone, another really great Mexican ingredient to learn about – The amazing Huitlacoche – Believe it or not, it’s a type of corn which has a fungus growing on it, that gives a really distinct flavour and an amazingly intense black colour. If anyone has any other recipes with Huitlacoche, we’d love to hear from you, who knows you could get featured on our menu?

There are amazing things happening just around the corner from Wahaca Covent Garden every Thursday, in fact we’ve been down to check out the real food market stall before. We thought that Naihm from Eat Like a Girl really captured the amount of effort that goes into making it happen, and we’re very grateful indeed. (We also thought the black bean and chilli looked amazing so watch out for us queuing up for a bowl next time!).

Like most food obsessed Londoners, we’ve been following the buzz around Pierre Koffman’s pop up restaurant on the roof of Selfridges, and Chris from Cheese and Biscuits was lucky enough to be able to try it out, have a look at the review here. If Pierre’s looking for his next free lance job, then he’s very welcome to help us out with our next burrito, Pibil Trotter anyone?

Our mouths were also watering reading about Helen from Food Stories’ trip to Brindisa to learn all about the differences between the Jamons on offer down at Borough Market – The lucky swine. We’re always keen to hear about how London restaurants are giving you lot a chance to get involved behind the scenes,and we’re busy thinking about how we can do something similar at Wahaca, so watch this space.

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by wahaca : Monday, 19 October 2009

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Posted by Susan on Oct 20, 2009 at 4:16 pm

Hello I am trying to find Oaxacan string cheese called Asadero or Queso Oaxaca or at least a recipe to try to make it myself. Does anyone know where to get the cheese in London or how to make it at home? Thanks Susan

Posted by wahaca on Oct 26, 2009 at 11:45 am

Hi Susan, like you we’ve searched high and low, but haven’t been able to find Queso Oaxaca over here anywhere. The good news is you can get a string cheese made by the same process in good Middle Eastern shops. It is not clear if the Arabs took the method to Oaxaca, or discovered it in Oaxaca and took it back to the Middle East, but you’ll see they are quite similar. It is often flavoured with caraway seeds and can be quite salty so you do need to soak it in water before shredding and using in quesadillas.

Good luck, and let us know how you get on.

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