Wednesday, April 21, 2010

About Mexican Food: Epazote- Pleasant or Pest?

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From Chelsie Kenyon, your Guide to Mexican Food
Epazote, love it or hate it? It is the signature flavor for many Mexican bean dishes, but it has been known to grow out of control like a weed. A reader from Oklahoma writes me "This stuff grows to six to seven feet tall and the stalk has a diameter up to an inch and half thick and impossible to break by hand. It it is almost like a small tree. It produces enough seed to keep you pulling epazote out of the garden/ yard all spring and summer long." All I can say is, I hope she likes beans!

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