While you were cursing your mesquite pods for covering your porch and your car, Brad Lancaster was getting ready to make pancakes. Lancaster belongs to a Tucson-based group called the Desert ...

A 5 gallon bucket of mesquite pods will yield 1 gallon of mesquite flour. Because it has no gluten, the flour should be mixed with standard flour in recipes. For example, says Schwemm, in a recipe ...

PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) - Ever wanted to bring a taste of the desert into your kitchen? You may not know it, but Mesquite pods can be nutritious for both people and animals and now Chandler-Gilbert ...

Arizona's culinary influences range wide, from its rich desert geography to its deep history with the Mexican border state of Sonora. Many communities call Arizona home, including more than 20 ...

Mesquite pods hanging from trees on the University of Arizona campus will be converted to scones and cookies this fall, courtesy of a student-led drive to create a food source from a maintenance ...

The long, string bean-like seed pods are abundant in the Valley. They appear throughout the summer on the mesquite tree, a popular choice for suburban landscapes. For the unknowing, the pods are ...

They don’t grow mesquite in Italy, but maybe they should. Chef Gio Osso’s family hails from southern Italy, parts of which have more in common with our arid, desert climate than some might guess. But ...

Welcome to Sonoran Arcana, a column seeking to probe the margins of Arizona cuisine and define a more specific, novel cuisine that has emerged in America’s great Sonoran Desert, New Arizonan. Here, we ...

Mesquite is mostly thought of as a shrubby, weedy tree that dots landscapes throughout the drier regions of the state, needing very little water or care to thrive. While some have come to value the ...