The drawer
Guajillo
Recipes

Tostadas waterproofed with cheese
Melt the cheese onto the tortilla before anything wet touches it. That layer is a gasket, and it is why these are still crisp at the last bite.
Serves 225 min

Enchiladas you never roll
The tortillas go in as ribbons, not parcels. Rolling was always the only difficult part.
Serves 235 min

Birria without the eight-hour braise
The dip is the point, so it gets built in the pan the beef browned in. Nothing is stirred into warm water.
Serves 240 min
I'm pushing these
Three this week
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Tomato sauce so simple you'll die
Marcella's three ingredients, one of which you bin, and a fourth she never sanctioned.
Serves 41 hr

A ricotta pasta that begs to be messed with
Stir it in a bowl while the water boils, then fiddle until it tastes like yours.
Serves 620 min

Gnocchi baked with corn and a goat cheese heart
A whole round of goat cheese goes in last and collapses into the sauce.
Serves 245 min
Everything, by the handful