Recipe creator
Mely Martinez
Creator of the long-running recipe website "Mexico in My Kitchen," one of the most established English-language digital resources for traditional Mexican home cooking, including marinades and grilled meats close in spirit to fajitas.
- Focus:
- Traditional Mexican home cooking for an English-language audience
- Region:
- Tamaulipas, Mexico / United States
A trusted digital archive of home cooking
Mely Martinez has published "Mexico in My Kitchen" for well over a decade, building a large library of traditional Mexican recipes explained with home-cook detail — ingredient sourcing, technique, and regional context. The site has become a widely cited reference point among English-language readers looking for traditional rather than Americanized recipes.
Overlap with fajita-style cooking
Her recipe archive includes numerous marinades, grilled and griddled meats, and salsa preparations that sit close in spirit to a fajita platter, giving readers a way to compare Tex-Mex fajita technique with traditional Mexican home-cooking approaches to similar ingredients.
Follow their work
- Mexico in My Kitchen (recipe website)
- The Mexican Home Kitchen (cookbook)
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Sources & further reading
- Official website — Mexico in My Kitchen
- The Mexican Home Kitchen — Rock Point (cookbook)