Food for Comfort

[Riverwind (imported)]

Menudo

You are out of your mind,

I remember when my ex-wife and I were first together my mother-in-law was having her annual X-mas party and one of the things they made was Menudo, in a big cauldron in the back yard over a wood stove, they asked me to go stir it, when I took off the lid there was this head staring back at me.

I have never liked that stuff but most Mexicans do.

Comfort foods, BBQ ribs, yesterday I took the half used bottles of three BBQ sauces and made a fourth and then added them together with a rack of ribs, put it all in the crock pot and 4 hours later the meat was falling off the bones.

Now that is comfort food.

River

[moi621 (imported)]

You are out of your mind,

River

Personal attacks over comfort food!?:D

When my digestion is just not working good enough for even chicken soup and my body is in need of nourishment - Menudo fits the bill. Never cared for chicken or pork pazole though. Must be the tripe.

Traditionally, those people, use it as a next day food after drinking late at night.

If you scan the Campbell's Soup cans you may find,"Pepper Pot. An old recipe from Valley Forge time I understand. To me it is Anglo Menudo. Don't use a whole can of water.

Moi

[Riverwind (imported)]

Those people as you say are my family, and I did not know you could get it in a can, it could not possibly taste right. CANED? YUCK

And yes Moi, Menudo is usually served after a night of drinking, it is said it is the cure for a hangover and something you will find in any good Mexican restraint on a Saturday morning. When I say good I am not talking about Americmex. I am talking the hole in the wall place you would most likely not go into, it is there where you can find real Mexican Food, my favorite breakfast at one would be Huevos Rancheros

River

[transward (imported)]

,,,

When I say good I am not talking about Americmex. I am talking the hole in the wall place you would most likely not go into, it is there where you can find real Mexican Food, my favorite breakfast at one would be Huevos Rancheros

River

Over years of eating Mexican food across southern Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona, I have found that the quality of the food seems to vary directly with the likely hood of getting stabbed before you get out.

The best Mexican food I ever had was in a dive bar frequented by Mexican motorcycle gangs. The cook, had he appeared in a movie would have provoked howls of stereotyping. Fat, greasy, sweaty in a dirty wifebeater with a bloody apron. Don't know how it could pass a health inspection. But the food was astonishing. Masa so delicate it was almost ethereal. Sauces just short of orgasmic, just this side of painfull, slow lingering complex burns.

Transward

[moi621 (imported)]

They better use lard and not (cheaper) vegetable oil. Lard is what makes even the beans so good.

I get my Mexican straight from Mexicans, who like me. They really, really like me.

Moi

[transward (imported)]

They better use lard and not (cheaper) vegetable oil. Lard is what makes even the beans so good.

I get my Mexican straight from Mexicans, who like me. They really, really like me.

Moi

Animal fat is wonderful stuff. The most flaky, delicate pastry, tenderest biscuits, most favorable cornbread the tastiest fried food is made with lard, tallow, schmaltz, bacon fat, etc. McDonald's French fries were never as good after they stopped frying them in tallow. Years ago working at a pan-Latin restaurant I made duck tamales w/ the masa dough made with rendered duck fat.

Transward

[Riverwind (imported)]

How true, I must say the best refried beens and flower tortillas and salsa I have ever had was in my mother-n-laws kitchen. She only used Mantica (lard) and yes it does change the way things taste.

I can remember her making 6 dozen flower tortillas every day and they would all be gone by the end of the day. They were a bit thicker then you buy in the store each one about 10in with her right hand print on them were she slapped them on the griddle.

Their was this place in Stockton a little store that made Tamales, OH MY, we would drive from Modesto up to get some about 40 miles, and get 3 dozen right out of the steamer, my ex and I would eat one dozen on the way home and then give the rest to the kids, they never went to waist, hell they never lasted an hour.

In San Francisco there was this little place about 8 blocks off the Embarcadero, fire burn marks up the wall over the stove, no two tables matched let alone the chairs, the floor was not quite level and the best damn food you ever tasted.

River

[moi621 (imported)]

I love CHEESE but it does not love me.

And I had the munchies for various cheeses yesterday and am paying for it today. My doubling over abdominal pain as makes me wonder if I perforated a bowel or just my tumor acting up is no doubt rock hard units that just want to cramp more then pass.

So I pulled out my left over Juanita brand canned Menudo

http://www.juanitasfoods.com/foodservice/en/index.html

from the refrigerator and was happy to note it was jelled. The best menudo should gel in the 'frige.

Some comfort food y'just gotta pay for later.

And some comfort, later -

Moi