Lily Ramirez-Foran

@lilyramirezforan.bsky.social

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Mexican Cook, storyteller, food writer, shopkeeper, mad dreamer and lover of all things Irish ☘️. Ocasional TV cook; Founder of @PicadoMexican Author of the award winning cookbook TACOS.

A fast transition video of our latest window display in portobello, depicting a gigantic, 3D, red heart made of cardboard, suspended in the middle of the window, with smaller red and pink hearts floating in the window randomly. With large cursive words painted in white at the bottom of the window that says: Love Always Wins
Garryhick Mushrooms carnitas in a large plate with branches of fresh bay leaves in the background
Buffet table arrangement with flowers in a colourful Mexican pot, a large plate of ceviche and a clay pot of refried beans
Timelapse video of me sanding the plywood table top, followed by the application of natural satin oil with a roller
A rectangular piece of Raw Plywood laid on the red floor ready to get legs
Bingo card with to play when watching cheesy hallmark Christmas movies
Christmas dinner table set up with plates full of food, Christmas crackers and bowls of gravy
L shape space showing our new teaching kitchen fit out in progress. Missing some appliances
Screen grab of James May kitchen set with my book on the background
A pair of hands holding a a glass container with a lit sparkler casting beautiful sparks of light
Selfie of three of the ladies in the Picado’s team!
A Birds Eye view of a slice of Pan de Elote in a dark ceramic plate on a wooden board. The dessert has a whipped Cajeta cream on the side and a flower on top.
Cup shaped Frida face vase in black and white holding a bunch of yellow flowers. The face has a unibrow, rosy cheeks and her eyes are downcast as if she was meditating
The poster screen for the documentary called “Welcome to Wrexham” showing actors Ryan Reynolds & Rob McElhenney at the Race course pitch wearing scarfs from the football Club Rexham. Reynolds is holding a football and there are some of the team players in the background in uniform and a stand with fans waving flags.
An oval white bowl placed on a wooden table. The bowl is full of corn tortilla chips shaped as witches, cats and ghosts made with cookie cutters. There is a small bowl of salsa verde in the middle.
Wooden board with three I decorated sugar skulls: one large one which has black eyes, the other two are small ones but more ornate in their making
White and red candy lollipops in the shape of Mexican Heart and sugar skulls. There are also two Small pumpkins made of candy all on a wire rack
An old wooden table with a host of hand made sugar skulls of several shapes and sizes, each sitting on a piece of cardboard drying for a couple of days until they harden so they can be decorated!
Photo of the cover of the Masarap cookbook by Richie Castillo & Alex O’Neill. Sows a colourful aqua background with the large title On yellow letters and an illustration of a bottle of Banana Ketchup
A rather weird angle taken photograph showing a bed of thinly sliced red cabbage, seasoned with lime juice, salt, pepper and capers, with pico de gallo, salsa verde and a whole pickled jalapeño on a white bowl with tiny black spots.
Picture of a stainless steel pot on a wooden table with beef tongue slices cooked in a sauce with chunks of pineapple
Picture of two books on Chillies: An Anarchy of Chillies by Thames & Hudson and the RHS Red Hit Chilli Grower: The Complete Guide to Planting, Picking and Preserving Chillies by Kay Maguire
A white Tun of Pork lard made by my Tipperary based friends running Old Farm. The photo shows the tin with a hand written labelled on the ledge of banister in their baranda
A plate of chicken mole seen from above
Picture of a plate of Mexican crunchy buñuelos de viento (a snowflake shipped crunchy pastry covered in cinnamon sugar) with a cup of tea and a bowl of clementines in the background
Shot of my computer screen doing a software update with a very, very long grey bar that measures how long it will take to update! The grey bar will turn blue as it advances, but this one is advancing at a snail pase!
An overlay picture of two plates of huevos rancheros with cheese!
A man wearing a ghostbuster custom with the backpack equipment seen from behind
A lovely picture of myself and my mammy smiling ear to ear at a restaurant in Dublin
Fluffy Corn tortilla about to be flipped on a pan
M hand showing off a bunch of radishes I just pulled from the raised bed
Brussels sprouts plants on my raise bed
Pan with beef tongue in pineapple sauce
Picture of Schitts Creek’s character David Rose eating pizza with the word unbelievable written at the bottom
Comparison side by side of the two drawings
Black and white drawing of a tomatillo plant
Black and white drawing of a Mexican Tomatillo plant with fruit
Antique botanical Drawing of a mandrake plant with fruit