Tasty Tampiquena

We’ve just discovered another tasty video blogger! Her name is Monica DiNatale and she is an actor, tv host, and author of the Fun Food With Monica blog, which has loads of delicious videos and travel adventures.

For Cinco de Mayo, we’ve been hunting down an authentic mexican recipe for you, and Monica came through!  This video features Chef Patrico Sandoval of Mercadito Grove restaurant in the West Village of NYC.  He prepares a Tampiquena plate.   What is it?   In Mexico City in the 1930’s and 40’s, a legendary restaurant called the Tampico Club founded by Jose Luis Loredo from Tampico served a signature dish that became famous. Tampiqueña (pronounced tam-pee-cane-ya) has many permutations and culinary interpretations today, but the original plate consisted of carne asada, enchiladas, rajas (spiced roasted chiles), salsa, and charra beans. Patrico’s version of the recipe here includes a skirt steak carne asada, corn salsa, and marinated rajas.  Click the “read more” for the video!  Feliz Cinco de Mayo!