Happy St. Paddy's Day!
Top o' the mornin' to you all.
True to my word, I tried El Faro yesterday. I had an El Faro Quesadilla con carnitas. Carnitas, as you surely know, is braised pork. Braised, as you know, is like when someone punches you in the arm and then later it hurts and you look at your arm and it's all purple and green and stuff.
My quesadilla was pretty good. But it's all relative. Seriously, when the time is right, I'll discuss my Mexican food lunch philosophy. I think I'll be going back to Lee's today to switch things up.
Drink a beer or two tonight in honor of St. Patrick, who centuries ago caught all the snakes in Ireland and then they had a big party and drank lots of beer and ate lots of snakes and made cool jackets and boots from the snakeskins!
posted by Marcus Cornelius @ 9:48 AM
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4 Comments:
If you get hit and then later it hurts and its purple then that's called a bruise. So carnitas is bruised pork, not braised.
I tenderize meat sometimes by hitting it with a special cooking hammer. I've hit my hand a couple of times and gotten bruises, but I never see bruises on the meat.
A day before the pigs get slaughtered they separate the ones that are gonna be carnitas. Some guys with sticks then chase 'em and hit 'em with the sticks until they're really sore. The next day when they go get processed they're all bruised up.
Crazy gringos!
Carnitas is braised pork, not bruised pork! Braised just means cooked by browning in fat and then simmering in a closed container. Aint nobody be hitting no pigs with sticks! Damn.
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