Mexican foods
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Topic: Mexican foods
Posted By: 8122pbrainard
Subject: Mexican foods
Date Posted: September-21-2012 at 7:22pm
I love Mexican foods! One of the side dishes at my local Mexican restaurant is nopalitos salid. With all the free time I've had lately, I decided to give it a try making it myself. It's now blending the flavors in the frig overnight. My wife gave me a seed packet of pepper plants in my Easter basket more as a joke than anything. Well, I'm not a gardener but decided to give them a try so, I now have home grown peppers in the nopalitos. Actually, considering the effort, the cost of fertilizer and the cold frame I had to build, I would have been better off just going out and buying the damn peppers!!  ------------- /diaries/details.asp?ID=1622" rel="nofollow - 54 Atom /diaries/details.asp?ID=2179" rel="nofollow - 77 Tique 64 X55 Dunphy Keep it original, Pete < |
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Posted By: OverMyHead
Date Posted: September-21-2012 at 8:55pm
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Sound good amigo. Don't forget the Cerveza with lime! ------------- For thousands of years men have felt the irresistible urge to go to sea, and many of them died. Things got better after they invented boats. 1987 Ski Nautique |
Posted By: peter1234
Date Posted: September-21-2012 at 10:04pm
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pedro brainardo? we made nachos tonight with tomatoes from the garden our own cilantro and poblanos and jalepenos grown in our cedar lapstrake 8' boat/herb garden i made this spring i love anything spicy and earthy flavored. Pete do you watch andrew zimmerman or anthony bourdain on the food channel? those guys go to the ends of the earth and find some crazy stuff ------------- former skylark owner now a formula but I cant let this place go |
Posted By: 8122pbrainard
Date Posted: September-21-2012 at 10:27pm
Dave, NEVER!!! I'm drinking one at the moment!!  However, no lime! - that's for the "yuppies" ------------- /diaries/details.asp?ID=1622" rel="nofollow - 54 Atom /diaries/details.asp?ID=2179" rel="nofollow - 77 Tique 64 X55 Dunphy Keep it original, Pete < |
OverMyHead wrote:Posted By: 8122pbrainard
Date Posted: September-21-2012 at 10:31pm
Peter, No, I have never watched them but will make a point too. Lately, I have been spending lot's of time on craigslist and monster without any time to look at TV! ------------- /diaries/details.asp?ID=1622" rel="nofollow - 54 Atom /diaries/details.asp?ID=2179" rel="nofollow - 77 Tique 64 X55 Dunphy Keep it original, Pete < |
Posted By: 74Wind
Date Posted: September-22-2012 at 12:29am
Legend has it the lime-in-the-beer thing is an old mexican tradition but I read that it was actually invented in some California bar. The mexican-owned breweries are all gone anyway, gobbled up by international conglomerates. Corona by InBev and Dos Equis, Sol, & Tecate by Heineken. Heineken will undoubtably get gobbled up next. The two superbrewers (InBev and MillerCoors) can then battle for world domination. The victor will then produce only one beer for total global consumption called "Soylent Green" and profits will go thru the roof. It's a fiendish plot, but in a world where Moosehead is the only major Canadian-owned brewery left, and Fosters-"Australian For Beer, Mate" is brewed in Albany, Georgia, anything is now possible........ ------------- 1974 Southwind 18 1975 Century Mark II |
Posted By: SN206
Date Posted: September-22-2012 at 12:38am
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I believe the lime was to disinfect the glass and to keep the flies off. ------------- ...those who have fallen and those who will. |
Posted By: TX Foilhead
Date Posted: September-22-2012 at 12:48am
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I watched a girl try to taste a ghost pepper last week, does that count? She fell on the floor and was li cling the concrete trying to get it off her tongue, hate to see what's going to happen when it comes out the other end. By the way the wife made a 150 green chilie beef enchiladas for the Flyin last weekend and I drank lots of beer, I think some of it might have been Mexican. |
Posted By: 74Wind
Date Posted: September-22-2012 at 1:10am
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Apparently there are multiple rumors but no real proof but I did just find these little tidbits: 1) The lime drowns out the taste of the urine used in the brewing process. Lime Disease: A condition that affects mostly young, college-aged people, but also people who have no taste in general. Easily recognized by the need to consume large amounts of cheap, beer-like beverages (especially Corona) that require adding a lime or lemon to it in order to make the liquid barely drinkable. ------------- 1974 Southwind 18 1975 Century Mark II |
Posted By: 8122pbrainard
Date Posted: September-23-2012 at 8:44pm
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I have to comment that my nopalitos salad turned out excellent!! I still have plenty of the home grown peppers left so I'll need to get over to the store and get another jar of nopalitos! ------------- /diaries/details.asp?ID=1622" rel="nofollow - 54 Atom /diaries/details.asp?ID=2179" rel="nofollow - 77 Tique 64 X55 Dunphy Keep it original, Pete < |
Posted By: 8122pbrainard
Date Posted: September-23-2012 at 8:46pm
Don, You'll just need to plug that "other end" up with something!!!  ------------- /diaries/details.asp?ID=1622" rel="nofollow - 54 Atom /diaries/details.asp?ID=2179" rel="nofollow - 77 Tique 64 X55 Dunphy Keep it original, Pete < |
Posted By: OverMyHead
Date Posted: September-23-2012 at 10:03pm
And then what? wait for a "boom"? ------------- For thousands of years men have felt the irresistible urge to go to sea, and many of them died. Things got better after they invented boats. 1987 Ski Nautique |
Posted By: WakeSlayer
Date Posted: October-13-2012 at 4:14pm
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My wife and I spent 12 hours last weekend batching out homemade tamales for the winter. Ended up with about 120 of them. One of my favorite foods. Regarding ghost peppers. I grew a fantastic plant of them a couple years ago. I was very excited about them, until I tasted them. I like HOT food. I can take a whole bunch of habanero salsa. Love it. Ghost peppers simply do not taste good. They taste like tear gas to me. Apparently the title of hottest pepper has been taken from the ghosts now, by some scorpion chile, but they are supposed to taste better. ------------- Mike N 1968 Mustang |
Posted By: 8122pbrainard
Date Posted: October-13-2012 at 4:24pm
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Mike, The packet of "mystery" pepper seeds my wife gave me and I planted didn't turn out that bad. I really feel the big problem was starting them too late in the season so I had to pick them green and not wait until they turned red. (I had one red out of 100's!!) I'm going to try again next year and make sure I start them inside early. Do you make the tamales the traditional way with the corn husk wrap? ------------- /diaries/details.asp?ID=1622" rel="nofollow - 54 Atom /diaries/details.asp?ID=2179" rel="nofollow - 77 Tique 64 X55 Dunphy Keep it original, Pete < |
Posted By: cphase
Date Posted: October-13-2012 at 4:30pm
Tightener(cheese dip), sooner or later its coming out! ------------- Thanks, Jeff http://www.correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=6549" rel="nofollow - 82 SN http://www.archlinux.org" rel="nofollow - Arch Linux |
Posted By: WakeSlayer
Date Posted: October-13-2012 at 4:51pm
Yep. my wife stewed a 25lb turkey, short the breasts, for the entire afternoon with a variety of spices, etc. We made up the corn dough and soaked the husks. She assembled and I rolled them. Ties them off with hemp string. Then you steam them. We had forgotten that you need to steam them for nearly two hours. We (read; she) was up all damned night steaming and freezing them. It was an 18 hour project in the end. Peppers, if starting from seed, can be started in the house under a fluorescent light in like late March. After my ghost pepper disappointment, I grew a really nice habanero bush that yielded around 100 peppers. I still probably have 70 in my freezer. They freeze great and keep for a very long time. We do this with all our peppers. This was a crappy year for peppers in our garden. All very immature and late, like you are describing. We may have got 50 jalapenos total, and had a couple mystery pepper plants that didn't yield anything. I love mexican and thai/asian the best. Next comes italian. I am cooking a huge batch of homemade spaghetti and meatballs today. Another 16-18 hour process. The official start to the fall for me. ------------- Mike N 1968 Mustang |
Posted By: 8122pbrainard
Date Posted: March-09-2013 at 4:05pm
I just finished making another batch of nopalitos salad. This time since all my peppers are gone from last summer, I used some store bought Jalapenos. These were so big that they required to be veined and seeded. A word of caution to the guys: After handing the peppers, make sure you wash your hands real good before needing to go drain fluids from your body. I'm in pain!!!!  The plans for this summers pepper garden have expanded. The Poblano, Big Guy Jalapeno, Hot Cheyenne, Mustard Habanero, Scotch Bonnet, Lemon Drop, Purple Jalapeno and Pasilla Bajio seeds have sprouted and are now under the florescent light (100 plants total). Not wanting the deer to get to the plants again, I have an electric fence going in. I read that to train the deer, you take a piece of aluminum foil with peanut butter on it and wrap it on the wire. Then the deer lick it and they are trained!!!  ------------- /diaries/details.asp?ID=1622" rel="nofollow - 54 Atom /diaries/details.asp?ID=2179" rel="nofollow - 77 Tique 64 X55 Dunphy Keep it original, Pete < |
Posted By: dochockey
Date Posted: March-09-2013 at 5:14pm
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Back in the day I had a lawn service and one of my customers had a HUGE garden in the back yard and they only grew Peppers ! Hundreds of plants all varieties . ------------- 1989 Teal Ski Nautique 1967 Mustang Harris Float Sunfish |
Posted By: WakeSlayer
Date Posted: March-09-2013 at 5:40pm
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You have a hundred pepper plants going? Wow. Nice!!! That is funny about the capsacin on your hands. Last year, after chopping dozens of thai chiles the day before, one of my contacts went haywire. I didn't think about it at all. I burned my eye so effing bad it took a couple hours to stop hurting. ------------- Mike N 1968 Mustang |
Posted By: OverMyHead
Date Posted: March-09-2013 at 7:42pm
Pete. You are the last one I ever thought we would have to tell to keep THAT original!  ------------- For thousands of years men have felt the irresistible urge to go to sea, and many of them died. Things got better after they invented boats. 1987 Ski Nautique |
Posted By: 8122pbrainard
Date Posted: June-16-2013 at 9:01pm
I lost some of the plants during the inside seedling stage and transplanting them out to the garden so I supplemented some plants from Burpee. Extra Lemon drops, Ancho's, and Big Guy Jalapenos. Plus, some tomatoes and cilantro. I'm ready for the salsa!! The electric fence works great. So far the deer have learned the hard way but one morning I also had a shunk get zapped! http://s133.photobucket.com/user/brainard_bucket_bucket/media/DSCF0006-23.jpg.html" rel="nofollow">  ------------- /diaries/details.asp?ID=1622" rel="nofollow - 54 Atom /diaries/details.asp?ID=2179" rel="nofollow - 77 Tique 64 X55 Dunphy Keep it original, Pete < |
Posted By: Tim D
Date Posted: June-17-2013 at 9:11am
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An Easter Basket? ------------- Tim D |