Tales from the grill...

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cmartinez

Joined Jan 17, 2007
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The process continues...

The onion, cilantro and pineapple are all ready to go. Warming up the grill now.

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What you're doing is an international transgression of culinary culture... if you don't have a trusty mexican with you to evaluate the process and end results, then you'll leave me no choice but to crash your bbq party and supervise things myself... :p
 

wayneh

Joined Sep 9, 2010
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What you're doing is an international transgression of culinary culture... if you don't have a trusty mexican with you to evaluate the process and end results, then you'll leave me no choice but to crash your bbq party and supervise things myself... :p
That's fine, but if you take more than about 45 minutes to get here, I can't guarantee there will be anything left to supervise but the dishes.
 

spinnaker

Joined Oct 29, 2009
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What you're doing is an international transgression of culinary culture... if you don't have a trusty mexican with you to evaluate the process and end results, then you'll leave me no choice but to crash your bbq party and supervise things myself... :p
A shameless appropriation of culture on Wayne's part. :p
 

wayneh

Joined Sep 9, 2010
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Cilantro is another great gift along with Cumin. I have tomorrow's strip steaks marinating. Wayne, let us know how they turn out, looking good! :)

Ron
So full. Hard to breathe. Tacos were fantastic. My daughter whipped up some guacamole for us. The picture-taking ended about then. You'll have to take my word for it, we had all the sides including fresh pineapple, sweet onion, cilantro, lime, sour cream, the works.
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wayneh

Joined Sep 9, 2010
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The recipe I followed was basically this one, but I made my own achiote paste. All the ones I could find in the store were loaded with MSG. In retrospect, next time I'll just make my achiote paste contain ALL the spices for the dish. It was silly to measure and add 1/2t of whatever spice to the paste, only to then use a tablespoon of the same spice in the whole dish. Otherwise I wouldn't change a thing.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/alvinzhou/homemade-al-pastor?utm_term=.sbe0jAZYj#.ugvvXA4xX
 

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cmartinez

Joined Jan 17, 2007
8,780
The recipe I followed was basically this one, but I made my own achiote paste. All the ones I could find in the store were loaded with MSG. In retrospect, next time I'll just make my achiote paste contain ALL the spices for the dish. It was silly to measure and add 1/2t of whatever spice to the paste, only to then use a tablespoon of the same spice in the whole dish. Otherwise I wouldn't change a thing.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/alvinzhou/homemade-al-pastor?utm_term=.sbe0jAZYj#.ugvvXA4xX
Didn't you grill the pineapple before dicing it?
 

Reloadron

Joined Jan 15, 2015
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My daughter whipped up some guacamole for us.
When I lived in CA (San Diego) I had an avocado tree in my front yard. Guacamole was just another of those wonderful things. Moved back east and avocados were a buck apiece and they were horrible. You don't know what you got till it's gone.
Looking sweet Wayne and glad the tacos came out so good.

Ron
 

wayneh

Joined Sep 9, 2010
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Didn't you grill the pineapple before dicing it?
I forgot. When I butchered the pineapple it was so ripe, sweet and delicious that it slipped my mind. I didn't dice all of it though and maybe I'll grill some to go with leftovers. No guac left but everything else is ready to go.
 
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