With the summer approaching and the weather getting nicer and warmer, it could be a great idea to do some little backyard celebration, maybe pick a theme and cook your own stuff. If you are choosing Mexican food, start your research at this site: a fully searchable database of Mexican recipes, from appetizers to rice or beans dishes, chicken and beef recipes, you’ve got it all covered.
The bit I enjoyed the most about this site is that the recipes are not just a list of ingredients to which an instruction manual is attached; instead, it’s like being invited by the chef to the kitchen, as you get to hear about the story of spices, why it’s better to keep the lid on the pan while you are cooking your stuff, and it even provides replacement ingredients if you don’t have the spices required in the original recipes. For cooking aficionados, the site can be very instructive, as they explain why you have to do the stuff you are instructed to do, for instance: when you take a look at the Roasted Pepper recipe, you are told to cut a slit along one side of the pepper or pierce it with a fork to prevent explosions, so that visiting the site will not only allow you to cook great dishes, but learn something in the process as well. Also very good about Mex-Recipes.com is that they will present their version of a dish, and also provide links to cooking sites that present variations of these recipes, so you can further experiment with your favorite Mexican meals. If you have some recipes of you own which you’d like to share with these great cooks, mail it to them to have it posted in the site. 
