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Ingredient: Mexican chorizo

Frijoles Puercas (adapted from Elena’s Secrets of Mexican Cooking, 1958)

If I had to distill the spirit and joie de vivre of into a single recipe it would have to be Frijoles Puercas.  Not Frijoles con Puercas, just plain old Frijoles Puercas.  The name translates literally as “pig beans”, and while it contains pork products that’s not where it got its name.  According to Mrs…….

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