Curiously, Cinco de Mayo gets more attention in California than in Mexico. In the Golden State, communities celebrate the day with mariachi music, dance performances and plenty of Mexican and Cal-Mex fare.
This goat cheese frittata is definitely in the latter camp — a California recipe with a Mexican soul. Enjoy it with warm tortillas on Cinco de Mayo, then remake it for Mom on Sunday, May 8, with a green salad.
Anna Jarvis, a West Virginian, began advocating for a national Mother’s Day in 1905, the year she lost her own mother. Congress balked, joking that the next demand would be a Mothers-in-Law Day. But Jarvis persisted, and nine years later, President Woodrow Wilson signed the proclamation making the second Sunday in May a nationwide holiday.
Today, Mother’s Day is the busiest day of the year for most restaurants. All the more reason to keep your celebration at home. Gather the matriarchs in your family for a frittata brunch or lunch and toast them with California bubbly. After all, we’d be nothing without them.