History and culture of chocolate this week. So, chicken mole street tacos for the students. I’m going to miss this class when the semester ends.
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So will we!
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A meal to die for.
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yummy! do tell more about your mole! so many things go into a proper mole, it is truly a culinary delight.
my father lives in Oaxaca, the land of mole, mezcal, mountains and mushrooms - but don’t tell papi about that last one, he’ll start to wonder again where i was that weekend. not sure i know, really (was it the mushroom? the mezcal? ¿o, los dos? dificil de decir…)
but anyways, the rich tamales enmolada (chicken tamales in mole) were incredible. can’t wait to get back to visit papi!
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I would love to be able to say that I have a great recipe. But for the purposes of this class, it went like this:
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works for me!
shhhh… i use that, too!
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I made this:
Wow! It was fantastic as tacos with the tomatillo salsa (linked to on the recipe page) and we ended up freezing a couple of taco filling meal’s worth. Five types of dried chilies (the observant will count four in the recipe - I added a couple of chili de árbol for a bit more heat) and about three hours in the oven. This is going on the “never forget” list.
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Some questions: lamb shoulder or leg (bone in) are pretty impossible to cut to small pieces, and Rob isn’t really a stewing meat is it?
And why take the seeds out of the chillies and then add some de àrbol for heat? Couldn’t you just leave the seeds in?
Looks delicious, I can smell the recipe like the abuelita rancho cooking channel linked here the other week.
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@FloridaManJefe - I know this is north of you, but wondering if you know, after the Burmese Python hunts, are there any big cookouts or do they sell the meat at all?
Just saw this in the local paper, and it seems the hunters are getting more than in previous years…had me wondering.
This year’s winner got almost 30! Over 200 in total. That seems like a lot of meat.
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According to the website for the hunt, python meat is high in mercury and is not certified as safe to eat.
Some Burmese pythons removed from the Everglades that have been tested for mercury levels had high amounts of mercury for human consumption. Though it is not illegal to eat python meat, the FWC cautions that neither the Florida Department of Health nor the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services have stated that python meat is safe to consume.
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Ah, dang it.
Only suitable for kings, then.
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i was just about to say what @anon33932455 wrote. yup, high levels of toxins in that meat. the skins make great boots, tho!
i just saw a story in a Key West newspaper (sorry - link won’t post here, paywalled) that stated there are estimated to be over one million pythons in the 'glades. and that there were few-to-none before hurricane Andrew wiped out Homestead in 1992 (coincidentally, the same event that may have released lionfish into the environment - but lionfish are edible and delicious!)
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What do the boots symbolise?
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“mah induhvidyaliteh”
actually, the two pair of python boots i have worn were the most comfortable boots ever! it was as if they were already broken in on the first wearing.
the red python boots from Nocona were sexy AF!
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I have seen snakeskin boots and I also thought they were the coolest thing ever.
You just couldn’t really wear them round here.
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OT, but have you tried entering the link into https://archive.today ?
It’ll default to archive.md or archive.ph, etc. so don’t be surprised about that. It makes sense to try the second option first, because it’s likely someone saved whatever it is for posterity already.
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i realize that i have taken us way off-topic with the boots and all, but here is the article that i was talking about when we were kind of on topic about eating pythons caught in the annual pyth-a-palooza hunt.
thanks for the archive link. I’ve been wondering how y’all do that!
https://archive.ph/2022.10.27-153353/https://konklife.com/key-west-lou-pythons-rule-the-roost/
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Back on topic with boots and food:
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I made sure my kids saw that one as soon as they were old enough to understand the humor and pathos.
What a classic!
And apparently the boot was made from some sort of licorice-type concoction?
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