If sauce thickens too much or is “missing” something, add 1 more bouillon cube, dissolved in 2 tablespoons of water. Published July 12, 2006. Submitted by Cathie Riffle, of Moyock, N.C.

Order the carne asada ($11.50) and the flautas ($7.50) if you must, but the excitement of coming here is in being able to eat with regional specificity, to explore those dishes that speak of a ...

On a shelf high above the gumball machines, where you can purchase a peewee-sized plastic critter for 50 cents, there is an altar at Taqueria El Mexicano in Hyattsville.

COCKTAILS The El Torito Grill in Anaheim is nearly empty. It’s around 3 in the afternoon—the late-December rains ended just hours earlier, and dinnertime’s first brave diners trickle in.

Ingredients: 4 cups pasta, uncooked; 1 tablespoon olive oil; 1 medium onion, chopped; 3 garlic cloves, chopped; 1/2 red pepper, chopped; 1/2 yellow pepper, chopped ...

There’s some very good news for diners in the Irvine and South County areas. The El Cholo Cantina at the corner of Jeffrey Road and Alton Parkway in Irvine is now serving the whole menu of authentic ...

Take, for example, El Cholo’s signature enchilada sauce. For Angelenos in 1923, “spicy foods were not the norm,” Mr. Salisbury said, and the sauce was calibrated accordingly.