Tacos, the next generation
So I've had tacos on the brain of late. No not that kind of tacos you pervs........ I mean the kind you eat. Oh come on now?
I've been watching the usual food travel shows and seeing tacos featured. Compared to the average person (from these parts) concept of what a taco is, these things look amazing. The meat texture alone is night and day difference (though I recognize that it varies greatly). Ground meat tacos just don't cut it any more (except my creation "mutant tacos" because in some ways you can't hardly call it a taco anyway). Sadly, thanks to certain inconvenient laws, grilling/smoking is out for me. Roasting methods of taco meat prep is possible, but I really want to understand certain things more before I take that route. So I went with a stove-top prep (plus there's just something more old fashioned to me about boiling/stewing, but then it's my specialty ^_^ ). So I broke down a well marbled piece of pork into long strips, threw in the right combo of spices/seasoning, and let it boil for a few hours (you didn't think I was give it all away did you =-þ ).
The result.... meat came out near perfect to what I was aiming for (slightly more damp than I wanted, but then that works out for heating it up later in a pan). Even better, I may be able to make stove-top "que" (or pulled pork for those of you looking at me funny) by just changing a few little things. Now all I need to to find the right combo of things to put on it and I think I got myself a pretty good taco recipe. Now if only I could speed up the process without a pressure cooker =-þ
I've been watching the usual food travel shows and seeing tacos featured. Compared to the average person (from these parts) concept of what a taco is, these things look amazing. The meat texture alone is night and day difference (though I recognize that it varies greatly). Ground meat tacos just don't cut it any more (except my creation "mutant tacos" because in some ways you can't hardly call it a taco anyway). Sadly, thanks to certain inconvenient laws, grilling/smoking is out for me. Roasting methods of taco meat prep is possible, but I really want to understand certain things more before I take that route. So I went with a stove-top prep (plus there's just something more old fashioned to me about boiling/stewing, but then it's my specialty ^_^ ). So I broke down a well marbled piece of pork into long strips, threw in the right combo of spices/seasoning, and let it boil for a few hours (you didn't think I was give it all away did you =-þ ).
The result.... meat came out near perfect to what I was aiming for (slightly more damp than I wanted, but then that works out for heating it up later in a pan). Even better, I may be able to make stove-top "que" (or pulled pork for those of you looking at me funny) by just changing a few little things. Now all I need to to find the right combo of things to put on it and I think I got myself a pretty good taco recipe. Now if only I could speed up the process without a pressure cooker =-þ