Moving To Arizona, maybe.... - by mxleader
Tony_Tarantula on 4/4/2015 at 15:56
What Chipotle, Taco Bell, and most "Mexican" restaurants serve isn't actually mexican. It's a style known as "tex mex" that incorporates mexican spices and cooking styles with the agricultural products that come from ranch country:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tex-Mex)
bjack on 5/4/2015 at 02:05
Quote Posted by Yakoob
bjack - interesting, I guess I stand corrected.
Rock on dude and love the food you love. My goal was not to correct at all. :cheeky: It was to say that there is more than what meets the mouth sometimes. I've been around some parts of Mexico, but I cannot claim at all to be an expert on their food. What I have had is super tasty. I am not a huge fan of seafood, but the Mexican take on it is pretty cool. I love what they do to beef, pork, and chicken. I am not really a fan of birra (goat).
What is important here is the OP posted he likes Mexican food. I am not privy to his definition of what that means, but considering that he is from Washington, it is probably similar to what will be available at the better places in AZ. He should be pleased, as long as he stays away from the super greasy and cheesy glop. :joke:
Tony_Tarantula on 5/4/2015 at 05:01
Lamb can be good, but I'm with you on goat. I once had the opportunity to try some goat that was freshly killed and cooked by some third world locals and I wasn't particularly impressed. It was very dry, chewey, and what little flavor there was tasted gamey.
bjack on 5/4/2015 at 18:19
As Andrew Zimmern would say on Bizzare Foods, "It has that lovely mineral taste and that wonderful hint of urea!" I have had goat only a few times (always buffet) and only once did I finish what I took. The worst was Indian curried goat. I guess is was Goa goat :joke: Anyway, I have heard it can be carefully prepared and most of the harsh gaminess can be eliminated. I just don't have the guts to try it. Thre is a cool Mexican place I go to for Pollo a la Diabla and they have Birra too. I have thought of ordering it, but chicken out (literally) every time. :eww:
Oh, and to OP, if you do have little kids and move to the outskirts of town, watch out for snakes, bob cats, and cougars (not just hot older women!) If you like to hunt, there are quail everywhere.
Tony_Tarantula on 5/4/2015 at 18:42
Quote Posted by bjack
As Andrew Zimmern would say on Bizzare Foods, "It has that lovely mineral taste and that wonderful hint of urea!"
See "gamey".
heywood on 6/4/2015 at 22:15
That New York vs. New Jersey video reminds me of Jets fans mocking Giants fans because they played in New Jersey, up until the Jets moved from Shea to the Meadowlands :o
I have some family and friends from New York. They're good people, but their world view is not far off the classic New Yorker cartoon:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/View_of_the_World_from_9th_Avenue)
Regarding Mexican food, anyone want to share a dish worth seeking out? I've only been exposed to Tex Mex (which I like) and the stuff that's drowning in gloop (which I don't).
bjack on 6/4/2015 at 22:59
Google and check out shows and posts from Rick Bayless. He has some wonderful shows about the variety of Mexican food. Don't be too put off when his daughter shows up in his shows and start flirting with him. It is sort of sick, but what the hey… wood. Sorry, I could not resist. :D
heywood on 7/4/2015 at 15:25
I didn't realize Rick Bayless was the man behind Frontera. For several years, I was making a bi-weekly trip to David Jones Food Hall in Sydney to buy Frontera salsas at $9 a bottle, because it was the only place I could find decent salsas in Australia.
bjack on 7/4/2015 at 23:48
If you have access to chili peppers, you can make your own. I used to make my own super fire hot salsa. I leave out the tomatoes and just use chili peppers, garlic, salt, and vinegar. Bayless has much better recipes. It keeps a long time too. You can make it fresh and use it up, or cook it and can it like jam.
Something I find funny about world cuisine. Until the new world was discovered, there were no tomatoes in Italy, nor peppers in Asia. Some of the most "ethnic" food in the world is really due to chili and tomatoes making their way out of America. Trade can be a good thing, at least for food.
heywood on 9/4/2015 at 12:19
Well, I'm back living in the US again. So salsas are no problem anymore. And I can get an assortment of dried chilies here to make barbacoa and proper chili con carne, which I was missing in Australia. But good Mexican is still hard to find up here in the Northeast.
But now I'm really missing pies. And Thai bird's eye chilies.
At least I can get Australian lamb here.