Crispy Tlayudas with Un-Fried Coconut Black Beans and Elana's Simple Guacamole
So how do we eat Mexican food and indulge in margaritas without our bellies feeling like pinatas ready to bust open?
Beverly Hills, CA (PRWEB) May 01, 2014
As a response to the bloating, weight gain, and overstuffed sensation that Cinco de Mayo celebrations often bring, Elana Horwich, founder of the Meal and a Spiel Cooking School of Beverly Hills, offers delicious Mexican food recipes that are blessings for the body, a.k.a. Skinny Recipes for Cinco de Mayo.
Horwich confronts the question, "So how do we eat Mexican food and indulge in margaritas without our bellies feeling like pinatas ready to bust open?" These recipes use select quality ingredients. They are assembled in simple ways - avoiding sauces, frying, and the use of excess ingredients - all of which make food hard to digest. They are easy to follow and no major cooking skills are required.
Meal and a Spiel’s Oaxacan-style tlayudas are topped with a light black bean puree made with coconut oil and homemade easy guacamole. Horwich's extensive time spent in Latin America inspires the authentic flavor palate. The clean margarita has fresh lemon tartness and no added sugar and is based on a recipe Horwich learned as a bartender. Favorites of Horwich’s clientele, these recipes were originally featured in her Dude Food Class with Recipes for an Un-Tubby Hubby and in her Healthy Snacks Class.
Horwich ties the recipes with humor in comedic “spiels” as a way to make cooking more accessible. “If you want to garner experiences that will shape the unique spiritual being that you are, it is imperative that at least once in your life you work nights for a raging alcoholic boss,” writes Horwich in her spiel about her Skinny Margarita.
Meal and a Spiel is a Los Angeles based cooking school and online resource for recipes, videos, and health information that successfully teaches "the career girl generation" to cook with passion. The spiels are written to allow cooks to enter into the recipe viscerally, from the heart and body, and not only from the mind. Founded in 2010 by former high school history teacher, world traveler and comedienne Elana Horwich who learned to cook while living in Italy, Meal and a Spiel believes in the power to transform the world one love-filled meal at a time. Please visit MealandaSpiel.com.