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  • One is Camarones Y hongos, which is sauted in a garlic sauce and contains quite a bit of New Mexico red chiles, I think.

    Camarones Y hongos, salsa repollo 1919

  • From what I read earlier today, technically, "hongos" are the fungi in the ground and "setas" are the part you pick and cook.

    Setas y Hongos 2006

  • "hongos" growing on your toenails, along with several ads concerning cream for athletes foot.

    RenewAmerica 2009

  • The meaty texture of mushrooms made them ideal for cooking in stews with chiles and herbs, for filling tamales, or even for making a mole de hongos, a mushroom mole.

    Stalking The Wild Mushroom: An Ancient Mexican Culinary Tradition 2006

  • I have already sampled the cooked hongos, and the trance has been very light, so far.

    Setas y Hongos 2006

  • The meaty texture of mushrooms made them ideal for cooking in stews with chiles and herbs, for filling tamales, or even for making a mole de hongos, a mushroom mole.

    Stalking The Wild Mushroom: An Ancient Mexican Culinary Tradition 2006

  • I'll be interested in the difference between setas and hongos!

    Setas y Hongos 2006

  • I used to enjoy sitting in those little puestos in the cold at daybreak, cupping a mug of café de olla in my hands, smelling the wood smoke from the fire, and waiting for some hot quesadillas and a bowl of sopa de hongos.

    You Don't Know What You've Got Til It's Gone... 2006

  • Or Crema de hongos, preferably those big orange Michoacán hongos.

    Soup, Glorious Soup 2005

  • Besides being a center of religious life, Tetelcingo is an area of mushroom cultivation, where the hongos de cazahuate (Pleurotus ostreatus or oyster mushrooms), which formed part of the traditional diet, are now grown by local women who have been taught through programs sponsored by the Biology Institute of the UNAM and other academic groups.

    Morelos: land of culinary contrasts 2005

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