Taco Bell Is Not Mexican Food

[Bob Sacamano]

You can go to Idaho and get great, authentic Mexican food. It's much safer than running the risk of getting caught in the crossfire during a drug war in Arizona.

 

[TheDallasDon]

Great recipe if u want mexican food but don't know where to go.



Barbacoa Beef Cheek Tacos

Pickled Onions:
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• 1 red onion
• 1 tablespoon salt
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 1/4 a beet
• 1 handful cilantro
• 1 part water
• 2 parts cider vinegar

1. Slice the onions very thinly and put them in a microwaveable container. Add the beet, cilantro, salt and sugar. Cover everything with 1 part water to 2 parts vingar.
2. microwave for 1 minute, stir, and microwave for another minute. Cool, then refridgerate overnight. The beet will turn it a really pretty hot pink color.

Barbacoa Beef Cheeks:

• 2 1/2 pounds beef cheeks
• 4 cloves garlic
• 1 tablespoon natural peanut butter
• 1 ancho chili
• 1 teaspoon instant espresso
• 2 tablespoons olive oil (plus 2 more for cooking)
• 1 tablespoon honey
• 2 teaspoons cumin
• 1 teaspoon smoked sweet paprika
• 1 handful fresh cilantro
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup chicken broth (you can use beef too, I just had chicken on hand)
• 3 limes
• 1 avocado
• corn tortillas
• fresh cilantro

1. Clean and trim the cheeks. Put them in a container that you can marinate them in.
2. Remove the stem and seeds from the ancho, cut it up into chunks and rehydrate in a little water (I stick it in a ramekin and microwave for 30 seconds)
3. Peel and chop the garlic. Put everything from the garlic to the salt in the food processor (including the water from the chili) and blend into a paste. Toss the paste with the cheeks and marinate for several hours or better yet over night.
4. When it is time to cook, heat the oven to 275, and heat 2 tbs olive oil in a dutch oven. Brown the cheeks on both sides. Use the broth to rinse the rest of the marinade into the dutch oven, then squeeze the juice of 3 limes in.
5. Bake at 275 for 3 1/2 hours - turn the cheeks over once or twice while they cook and if the liquid dries up add a bit more broth
6. When the cheeks are fall-apart tender, take the pan out of the oven. Using 2 forks, pull the meat apart in the pan so that it mixes in with all of that fatty juicy goodness.
7. To serve - heat 2 tortillas (I like to double wrap the taco as they are juicy). Fill with barbacoa, a slice of avocado, some of pickled onions and fresh cilantro. Serve and enjoy!!!

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[vta]

[*]2 1/2 pounds beef cheeks

I've heard of tongue, hell even played around with one in the store until my grandmother smacked me... but, cheeks?

 

[Yeagermeister]

Since when do most college students eat real food?

:laugh2:

Raman noodles are food lol

I've heard of tongue, hell even played around with one in the store until my grandmother smacked me... but, cheeks?

I never knew cows had butt cheeks

 

[TheDallasDon]

I've heard of tongue, hell even played around with one in the store until my grandmother smacked me... but, cheeks?

it taste like roast mixed with skert stake but way more jucie its one of the best meats for tacos IMO

 

[Kevinicus]

I have a friend who is from Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Earlier tonight we were talking and he asked if I was going to the Wildcats game tonight. I'm going to watch it on TV. My family and I are going out for Mexican food in about 30 minutes.

He said he doesn't like Mexican food. I asked him what he has ever had and his answer was Taco Bell.

I wanted to punch him.

First of all anyone who doesn't like Mexican food is someone you should not trust too much. Their taste is all in their mouths. There is nothing better in the world food wise than good Mexican food.

Which is exactly why Taco Bell doesn't qualify. If you live away from the Mexican border area and have never had anything but chain restaurant Mexican food you have no idea what you are missing. You need to come to Arizona and let me take you to any of the dozen or so family owned places I know of. You buy. You owe it to yourself to taste what the real stuff is like.

Chalupas cannot compare with chili con carne or chili colorado. Nothing on a Taco Bell menu can compare with carne asada.

To give you some perspective, comparing food from Taco Bell with real Mexican food is like comparing Inez Saenz from TV Azteca and Janet Reno in a thong bikini contest. Uh, Janet is the Taco Bell in this example.

My friend told me that Taco Bell upsets his stomach and gives him diarrhea. Duh, it ain't food. Your body is rejecting it.

Eat a good chile relleno one time and you begin to understand why good Mexican restaurants run out of them early in the evening. Because they are awesome.

Burritos, tacos, tostadoes, and enchiladas are Mexican food, but they don't even scratch the surface of what these magicians do with food. Not even close.

If you have never tried the real stuff, you need to find a little dive family restaurant and try something other than one of those 4 menu items for a change. Trust me, you won't be disappointed.

I can already taste the carne asada I am craving. Gotta run. Just had to share.

I don't like Mexican food. I hate it in fact. I hate almost all of the common ingredients in Mexican food. And, I have very sensitive tastes and am generally a very picky eater.

And of course, my wife is half Mexican (her dad is full blooded). Needless to say, she doesn't make any of my meals.

Interestingly enough, I have a co-worker who is Mexican and she doesn't really care much for Mexican food either.

 

[CowboyMike]

Sorry Hos, but that stuff in Arizona isn't real Mexican food either.

The Mexican food capital of the nation is down here in El Paso, TX.

And I'm not talking about Chicos, if anyone knows what that is.

 

[CF74]

Yo Hos do you like mollejas?

 

[urface59]

I don't like Mexican food. I hate it in fact. I hate almost all of the common ingredients in Mexican food. And, I have very sensitive tastes and am generally a very picky eater.

And of course, my wife is half Mexican (her dad is full blooded). Needless to say, she doesn't make any of my meals.

Interestingly enough, I have a co-worker who is Mexican and she doesn't really care much for Mexican food either.

Blasphemy!

 

[kristie]

i refer to food from taco bell as "guilty pleasure food". i can't help it. i love it.

besides there's no restaurant where i live that has really good mexican food.

 

[Yeagermeister]

I don't like Mexican food. I hate it in fact. I hate almost all of the common ingredients in Mexican food. And, I have very sensitive tastes and am generally a very picky eater.

And of course, my wife is half Mexican (her dad is full blooded). Needless to say, she doesn't make any of my meals.

Interestingly enough, I have a co-worker who is Mexican and she doesn't really care much for Mexican food either.

My wife is Hispanic and her favorite food is Chinese. :laugh1:

 

[arglebargle]

Drive to Deming and get take out from Amigos. $3.50 per plate and it is so good.

It is worth your time to avoid Taco Bell.

Deming? Isn't that the home of Fast Ducks and Clear Water?


Had an acquantence from Texas who married an Englishman and moved to London. She became a favorite in their circle of friends, for inviting to new Mexican restaurants to critique their food. One day she gets a call, 'Another new Mexican restaurant opening!' Her friends gather her up and they drive across London...yes...to the newly opening Taco Bell.

She had to explain....

 

[rkell87]

i like tex-mex, one of the many reasons texas is the place to live

 

[Bob Sacamano]

i like tex-mex, one of the many reasons texas is the place to live

 

[Hostile]

Yo Hos do you like mollejas?

I've had it. It's nowhere near my favorite. It's kind of like menudo, it has to be really good or I don't care for it.

 

[rkell87]

get back to me when you figure out where you live

 

[Hostile]

Deming? Isn't that the home of Fast Ducks and Clear Water?


Had an acquantence from Texas who married an Englishman and moved to London. She became a favorite in their circle of friends, for inviting to new Mexican restaurants to critique their food. One day she gets a call, 'Another new Mexican restaurant opening!' Her friends gather her up and they drive across London...yes...to the newly opening Taco Bell.

She had to explain....

I actually know the guys who came up with the duck races idea. They were quite drunk.

 

[TheDallasDon]

I've had it. It's nowhere near my favorite. It's kind of like menudo, it has to be really good or I don't care for it.

I've had that good one time and the others its like chewing on old tires, Menudo is hard to make and it takes lots of love so my friends mom is the only one I will eat

 

[SaltwaterServr]

San Antonio is the home of Tex-Mex. There's a 100 different places to try that range anywhere from $40 a person give or take to $4 a person.

All of my chefs are 1st gen or recent immigrants, working in an Italian restaurant. One of them who works solely on salads and pizzas makes around 8 different varieties of ceviche. He'll do a spicy tomato base on day with mahi or barrumundi. The next is strictly fruit such as mangoes and papaya with paprika, onion, cilantro, and a touch of jalepeno juice. He says the northern Mexicans hate their food so they kill it with fire.

He's from deep south Mexico on the Pacific side. There's a lot more seafood and lighter cooking involved in his dishes as compared to what my chefs from the border region whip up.

The northern Mexican chefs say that heat is necessary to get the body ready for a good meal. It gets the heart running, makes the love life better.

One thing I have noticed traveling here and there a bit is how standard Mexican dishes are vastly different across the border regions. In some areas a burrito is a tiny little thing, the size of one small corn tortilla. In others, burritos are huge, the tortilla being the size of a dinner plate to start. Similarly, I've had tamales in New Mexico that were the size of large burritos here in San Antonio and stuffed with all kinds of goodness.

 

[CliffnDallas]

I like Panchos.