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Sweet and savory capirotada was an expression of Grandmother Petra's love for her family, especially at Christmastime. She never wrote it down, so... All Things We're Cooking is a series featuring ...

A few days later, Grandma came home from the store with a couple of loaves of inexpensive sliced white sandwich bread, a 5-pound bag of shredded Monterey Jack cheese, a bag of brown sugar, shelled ...

One of the great things about capirotada are all the variations. Some start with fried bolillos, while some are made with raisins and topped with salty cotija cheese. In Jalisco, you find a style of ...

This time of year, one of the most popular items at Café Navarro in the Nix Medical Center building is its capirotada, the Mexican bread pudding. This version is pure Tex-Mex. It uses butter-toasted ...

A modest dish that combines humble ingredients with holy symbolism makes a special Mexican dessert beloved during Lent and at Easter. It’s capirotada, a simple bread pudding that forgoes the common ...

Easter is this Sunday, which concludes my favorite food holiday: Lent. And the showstopper: capirotada, the layered bread pudding that’s the de facto Mexican dessert for Lent. Every family bakes their ...

All Things We're Cooking is a series featuring family recipes from you, our readers and listeners, and the special stories behind them. We'll continue to share more of your kitchen gems throughout the ...