/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>6373448
Nachos are the best mexican food everyone knows this.

>>6373448
>meat of questionable origin and freshness
why yes, it's delicious

>>6373455

Hehe. This was pretty fresh...just tasted like really tender steak, since that's what it is.

Now that I think about it, I'd like this to also be a simple but delicious foods thread, for anyone that's down to contribute.

>>6373448
>No cilantro
>No red/green sauce.

>>6373476
No salsa at all...yeah man i agree, gotta have some heat on them tacos. I eat my tacos with cilantro, cabbage, and green chili, no onions, hate raw onions.

>>6373455
You probably like chipotle right?

>>6373448
>mexishit part of town
So the shit side?

>>6373934

I was dipping it in this red spicy sauce, not sure what it's called.

For some reason, I hate cilantro

>>6373448
dry ass chunklets of meat sitting on some soggy flour tortilla and the only topping is onions

NO THANKS

>>6373448
chicken tinga tostadas

>>6373448

>Corn tortilla
>No cheese
>No lettuce

Simple tacos like this are awesome.

>>6373934
What is with all the chipotle hate? I like a good authentic taco but I love chipotle.

>>6374670
Because it sucks.

>>6374662
Bait?

>>6374662
>Lettuce in a taco
GET OUT

>>6374679
It's really not that bad, tasty and filling

>>6373934

>Not liking Chipotle

Friendly reminder that "authentic" tacos were invented by poor people using garbage ingredients, and America improved on them in every way. Only white hipsters and second-generation Mexican Americans with tumblr accounts complaining about white people prefer the things in OP's picture.

>>6374693

I bet you'd prefer a mango in there wouldn't you? Maybe some more gristle with your tripe?

>>6374708
mmm tripe! fuck mangos in tacos though

>>6373448
Highly doubtful seeing as there is no sauce. Looks dry as fuck. Probably from some shitty flyover.

>>6374704
>"authentic"
>hipsters
>tumblr accounts

anyone else ever have tortas with panela cheese and avocado?

If done right, the shit is like heroin.

>>6373448
The biggest thing that looks off to me is the lack of cilantro, and on the side I'm used to seeing some lime wedges, cucumbers and radishes, along with a grilled scallion (more properly cambray onion). Hot sauce would be on the side as well.

But beyond the lack of cilantro those tacos look right. Just a lack of sides I'm used to seeing with them.

>>6374739
>judging a peasant food that was often made with whatever ingredients and condiments were on hand like it was always made and served the same way

Fuck have tacos gone the way of chili?

>>6374722
Don't like panela, too sweet.

>>6374757
You mean America perfecting the lazy ass espanish's fuckups?

>>6374757
>always made and served the same way
I'm just used to Puebla style. I know there are other styles, that just happens to be the one I'm familiar with.

>>6373448
I'm an al pastor man.

>>6374757
nah man, they are still tacos, but I'd say a lack of cilantro is pretty glaring, and at least a side of lemon or lime. Key lime preferably, but Persian lime will do.

>>6374802
>one tortilla each

>>6374805
depends on how thick the tortillas are. I don't know about where you get yours, but some taco shop's tortillas are like gordos esse

>>6374812
I just prefer thin tortillas, holmes.

>>6374632
>ordering chicken tostadas

why

>Molotes
>Tostadas
>Gorditas
>Tacos

these are the best corn type snacks the rest are okay.

I love authentic mexican food. There's a mexican place in town that's pretty ghetto, but is all people straight from across the boarder who know how to cook. You have to specify if you want it "mexican style", especially if you're white or they assume you want a more american taco. With the authentic style it's loaded with onions, avacado, and cilantro compared to the american style.

>>6374853
sounds pretty dank, mate.


makes me sad most white (american) people are pleb as shit when it comes to taste

>>6374857
It's pretty great, and cheap is fuck since I'm assuming the majority of them are here illegally

Mole Poblano is the absolute best mexican dish but isn't an every day meal. Tacos or even a spicy pork tamale are the best in terms of simplicity, taste, and everydayness.

its far from the best mexican food but it is very high on the simplicity vs gratifying ratio

chilequilles are also great, what is that? sauce, meat and cheese on chips?

>>6374798
Mah ethnic minority, al pastor is great.
As far as tacos go, beef tongue is probably my favorite.

>>6373448
a taco without sauce is no taco everyone know this

>>6375038
No taco ought to come with sauce. You put that shit on as needed, and usually hope much isn't.

Salsa verde for pork and chicken
Salsa roja for beef

Is this a good rule of thumb?

>>6375056
taqueros usually ask if you want everything on it or nnot, it depends where you get the taco.

>>6375061
not really

>>6375038
>>6375056
>>6375075
I prefer putting any sauces on myself. That's how it usually is in general for street food.

>>6375106
Yeah but it is not uncommon that that a taquero is the one who asks you if you want cilantro, onion, salsa or everything on top. for me, the best type of taqueria arethe ones who mess around with flavors, from habanero to chipotle to even tamarind

>>6375119
salsa borracha is the one true salsa

>>6375124
I'm more of a fan of salsa macha with a little piloncillo myself

>>6375119
Can someone name all these please. I had a type of salsa when I was in Yuma and I can't figure out what it was to try and replicate it. All I know it was a darker red, and slightly smoky. I don't think it was chile de arbol, or maybe it was and it was mixed with something else.

>>6375163
if its smokey then its most likely a salsa made with chile morita or chipotle, i don't think the salsas would be the same ones you encountered because the taquero is a former saucier who makes his own types of salsas

>and feature an array of flavors:tamarind, almond, hibiscus,or strawberry. They use the standard chiles, habanero,chile de arbol,jalapeno, guajillo, but also use chile pasilla,chilaca,and chilepin to dleve into more complex spice profiles. They have 50 or more of these salsas and cremas, but only keep around 10 or so out at a time. I remember two years ago I counted around 38 of them at the salsa bar. It is a challenge walking over to that cache. Don't be afraid to ask for a recommendation to go with your various tacos.

Hey I'm mexican maybe I can help you all. I live near Mexico City and my family is from Jalisco.

>>6375163
I find very hard to tell exactly what the sauces are because we name them just like the color.

"Salsa verde, salsa roja..." "Pásame la salsa amarilla, por favor".

Maybe Chile Morita, chipotle or just a regular chile de árbol tomato sauce roasting the tomato.

>>6375124
>salsa borracha
Not really, that's a "norteños" thing. Honestly I prefer a simple guacamole or just "salsa verde" (green sauce). Maybe some Chiles Habaneros and Onion "salad". Or just chipotles.

It really depends on the dish.

>>6375176
I don't think I'll be able to get chiles moritas where I live now.

>>6375178
I don't know. The suggestions I've heard are chile cascabel, chile arbol + california, and now morita. I've tried using chipotle's but always mixed them with other one's so I don't know the exact flavor of it in a stand alone salsa/

>>6375189
>>salsa borracha
No. Salsa borracha is a also a central mexican thing as well made with pulque usually served when you eat pit roasted lamb

>>6375193
where are you from m8?

>>6375200
Alaska. But I suppose I can order whatever. I'd just like to have a better opinion than my memory as to what I need to get

>>6375193
Use the chipotles as is. Prepare yourself the closest thing to a "Semita poblana" as you can and use the chipotles. Everybody here buys canned chipotles...

>>6375198
Maybe in Hidalgo. As my father suggests "If you cook using beer it tastes good but you can't cook".

My family really thinks it's very lazy to cook using beer. "Just drink it".

Have you ever tried natural pulque? Damn it's really delicious. Although most people over here don't like the taste nor the smell. Don't know why. Also pulque has become some kind of hipsters beverage, that's pretty shitty too.

>>6375203
You should just pair some chipotles/moritas with some cascabels for more depth of flavor.

Burritos and rice are the best Mexican food. If you're white, you aren't allowed to argue with me.

>>6375221
But burritos are arguably American.

>>6375222
Uncommon but annoyingly mexican. Lazy food for lazy people.

>>6375223
Possibly invented in California. Origin is unknown.

>>6375222
>home boy thinks he knows food origins

Burritos have been around since the Mayans.

>>6375204
I've only tried it cured, and it was pretty good. I can see why it can be put off by many and an acquired taste due to the texture. I'm more of a mezcal type, which is even more hipster

>>6375222
its a northern mexican thing. the burrito you're thinking of is a mission style burrito, no rice in mexican burritos, just a stew and sometimes refried beans

>>6375225
Not in their modern form. Mayans didn't have wheat.

>>6375230

But they did have weed, which was mixed into an edible hemp with other ingredients to make a wrap.

>>6375233
That aint a burrito, nigga. That's just some dank kush.

>>6375224
>California
Nope, Guanajuato.

Anyway it has happened to us several times that we want to have some dinner and all the "tortillerías" are obviously closed as they all close at 5 pm.

There are some grocery stores that sell cold tortillas and packed tortillas. If there are no corn tortillas available we just buy some flour tortilla and we use them as a replacement of a regular corn tortilla.

Anyway different taste. "Embarrar" frijoles to a "tortilla de harina" is very lazy.

>>6375229
Yeah, the texture may be annoying but, there's nothing like pulque elsewhere. Also, pulque only smells bad when it's very old, and it's not a very good pulque.

Mezcal, well, it's ok. There are mezcales even better than tequilas.

Also, NO RICE IN A BURRITO, although that may taste good.

>>6375230
Wheat is a collonial thing.

I think tostadas are better than tacos, maybe because I haven't been exposed to bad tostadas

>>6375236
Have you tried Tostadas de Camarón (Shrimp Tostadas) or Tostadas de Pescado (Fish Tostadas) ?

I don't really like sea food but they taste pretty good.

BTW My father and I sell "Empanadas de Camarón", "Pescaditos fritos" and "Cócteles and Vuelve a la Vida" every weekend.

>>6375241
Also, try to get some "Salsa bruja". That thing is really delicious, maybe the best salad topping ever made. It's really hard to prepare a homebrew, so just buy a bottle.

Use it for seafood and salads.

>>6375243
Forgot the pic.

>>6375241
>pescadito fritos

is that like tiraditas /strips of fish or small fried fish?

what's your recipe for vuelve a la vida?
>inb4 ketchup

>>6375247
I've never been to veracruz so I never tried it.

>>6375249
"Deep Fried Fish" may be a good translation hhahaha. As you can see it's fish, covered in some kind of flour atole and fried.

We prepare our vuelve a la vida with:

Fish previously cooked with vinegar, cooked squid (octopus may be very pricey), oyster, shrimp, everything mixed with onion, jitomate (red tomato) and chile jalapeño without veins.

For the sauce it's really simple, it's ketchup with orange juice. Just mix them to your liking.

In the top of the bowl add a "pata de mula" (Anadara tuberculosa).

>>6375250
Yeah, those dishes are from Veracruz but my dad, who's from Jalisco, worked for a seafood restaurant for several years that's why we sell them.

>>6375259
>>6375259
What is your experience with smoked fish like tuna or marlin? Is it good as they say?

>>6375268
>smoked fish
I have never tasted it. Maybe my dad has. I've tried "empapelados" though.

>>6375235
>pulque only smells bad when it's very old
How old this "very" I'm guessing like over 5-6 years old or is old more like over 15 years

>>6374627
>dry
>flour tortillas

2/10 - Are you even trying?

chili rellenios!

i like them becuase I like my jalepeno popers to be biggie sized. and I can never pronounce it correctly. I also cant spell correctly

>>6375602
chee-lay ray-yay-nose
try that or
chee-leh ray-yay-nose
they should land you close enough

>>6373448
Beef tongue is great tier
Properly cooked tripe is god tier

>>6373454
Is there such a thing as nacho cheese that's real cheese?

fideo tacos are god tier

I'm Puerto Rican, and I like the Mexican menudo better than our own version. Look at that nice, red chili broth. Our food in general isn't usually spicy.

>>6375611
>chee-lay ray-yay-nose
don't do this

>>6376563
At least you guys have fat booty

>>6375584
You have to wait 5-7 days for the aguamiel to ferment and form pulque. After that, day after day it keeps fermenting and starts the odor.

Maybe a week after that the pulque has a very hard odor and a very sour taste.

The more the pulque stinks, the less good it is.

>>6375602
"Chiles Rellenos" my dad loves those stuffed with oaxaca cheese. I prefer them stuffed with meat as the classical "Chiles en nogada".

>>6375688
You're damn right.

>>6375694
No. Over here all the nacho cheese available says "Nacho Cheese LIKE" so I don't fucking know what the hell I am eating.

>>6376563
I prefer calling it "Pancita" and I haven't tried the Puerto Rican version, but yeah, mexican pancita is really delicious.

BTW Forgive my very bad english.

>>6373448
Tacos are great. I am mexican because I live in Mexico. But, where is the salsa and cilantro???

>>6377047
At the salsa bar where it belongs.

I wanna try some rajas con cream but theres nothing like this where I love. fuck this shithole

>>6376812
chile rellleno are better with an ancho chile and with a plantain stuffing

>>6374704
>liking shitpolte
>not liking based Izzo's or Bullritos

>>6376571
its depends on accent and yeah its accurate

>>6377077
Woah, I haven't tried those. They're made in Tabasco, right?

>>6376812
>You have to wait 5-7 days for the aguamiel to ferment and form pulque. After that, day after day it keeps fermenting and starts the odor.
>Maybe a week after that the pulque has a very hard odor and a very sour taste.
>The more the pulque stinks, the less good it is.
does it really go bad in less than two weeks
should you have a starter ready is the process faster to have drinkable pulque

>>6377895
Its one of those dishes that was invented in a restaurant and other restaurants started doing it. kind of like ahi tuna tostadas or something like that

here's an example of this in a video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GStTIhKJQqw

>>6377902
I can't understand you. No entiendo. Hahaha
But well I'll try

>does it really go bad in less than two weeks
Yes it does. If its really smelly you can drink it anyway but... you may have to drink some pepto bismol unless you have a strong stomach.

>should you have a starter ready is the process faster to have drinkable pulque

I couldn't fully understand this. In the past you just left the aguamiel in the "tinajal", add some yeast, wait for a long time and that was it. Nowadays I think the process is more elaborate as you have to leave an small quantity of aguamiel for 3 days to ferment, that's the semilla (seed) of the pulque, that will act as a jumpstart when you add the rest of the aguamiel.

>>6377913
I loved that show "La ruta del sabor". Amazing, thanks for sharing.

BTW the reason I know a lot about pulque is because we have a friend who used to sell pulque next to our sea food stand.

He now sells it in another place as the cops took his stand because it's illegal to sell alcohol without licence.

>>6377945
>I know a lot about pulque
please stop
you know stuff about pulque and most definitely not a lot

>>6377950
Thanks for saying it better. That's the best english I can.

SoCal is where it's at. If you're going to eat Americanized Mexican food then at least eat good Americanized Mexican food. There is no good mexican food anywhere where past 200 miles from the border, TexMex is dogshit, and Chipotle is for milquetoast white people who've never seen a pepper in their life.. It isn't even cheap for the amount of food you get either. For less than one of Chipotle's bloated filler stuffed faux burritos you can get a massive serving of delicious carne asada fries.

>>6377970
What the hell is that? Carne asada with fries? Lol I can't imagine...

Americanized Mexican food is strange but I totally would try it.

>>6377985
Fries topped with cheese, carne asada (or anything else, I like it with pollo adobado), guac, sour cream, pico de gallo, more cheese, and sometimes beans depending on where you get it. Shit is cheap, delicious, and filling.

>>6377970
Los angeles, san diego and even santa ana has decent tacos. Heck I'm pretty sure there are more variety of Mexican in la than most areas in Mexico.

>>6377996
So nachos with fries instead of chips. How is this at all inventive or interesting?

>>6378026
its cheap bar food, like most mexican american dishes. its not a game changer, but its not bad with a beer or 2. not thesame guy though

Why yes I do love me some authentic mexican food, made by authentic mexicans, served out of a roach coach

>>6378026
Pretty much. It's better than nachos though and since when in the fuck does something need to be "inventive" to be good?

Go eat some shitty hipster fusion shit or bespoke artisinal pickled eggs, you hipster faggot.

>>6378028
I usually drink a can or 7 of Tecate with it if I'm pigging out at home. what's your preferred brew?

>>6378045
It's just ironic you go out of your way to rail on subpar Tex-Mex, and people who have never had a pepper, then you post watery "guacamole" sauce-covered Mexican nachos. Which assuredly do not contain any authentic ingredients at all.

>>6378051
>authentic ingredients

LOL. How are beef, avocados, tomatoes, cilantro, oaxaca, and thing else in it not authentic? Shit, everything "mexican" you eat is grown here in CA and trucked into your shitty midwestern flyover state. The closest you've ever been to Mexico is at your nearest Taco Bell, flyover faggot.

>>6378057
>being this defensive about your In-n-Out state

whoa buddy we know you can never afford to own property but dont take your anger out on 4chan

>>6378060
Sounds like you're butthurt about being too poor to afford living in CA. the reason your house cost less than a VCR is because nobody wants to live there. I'll enjoy living in the most desirable location in the U.S. 20 minutes from the ocean while you're stuck in some dead end shithole with shit weather that no one cares about or even knows exists and that you're too poor to leave because there is no economy there other than service sector retail gigs and walmart whose only customers are other minimum wage peasants and people on welfare.

You jelly?

>>6377970
Yo, Asada fries!!!!!! Hells yah man, I'm central Cali, I do love me some asada fries.

>>6377954
let me say it as it is
you really dont know

>>6378082
>bragging about living in california

Are there ever times when people take you seriously?

>>6378489
just when they fail to afford living here and are moving away

>>6375688

You have obviously been to a legit Mexican place place, the menu is in Spanish and you either go the day the one person that speaks English is there or you know Spanish.

I love gorditas, Taco Bell's aren't bad, but they're not gorditas.

>>6377970
That guac looks disgusting, most the guac in this thread looks like the prepackaged walmart shit or taco bell guac.

>>6378622
>muh lengua

>>6378045
They are not better than nachos, kill yourself I can't wait for the big quake to sink your entire state.

>>6378625
>muh shit food

>>6378632
nachos a shit

>>6378662
>I have no idea what I'm talking about

I bet you've never set foot in Mexico, or if you have, it was maybe Cancun or Puerto Vallarta

>>6378663
your french fry nachos and burritos are a disgrace, it is closer to british food than mexican.

>>6378666
Not the guy you were bantering with but I've had a most interesting life. After serving as an Airborne Ranger Infantryman with two tours of combat under my belt, I got a job as a coyote. A coyote smuggles Mexicans over the Rio. I made a lot of money doing that for three years.

During that time, I spent much of my existence in Piedras Negras. I ate the local food and I learned everything you can hope for in Mexico, you can find in Texas.

>>6373983

>hate cilantro

Soulless robot person detected.

Actually, it's a predisposition linked to a genetic marker that codes for olfactory receptors that are highly sensitive to aldehyde chemicals, which contribute to the flavor of cilantro.

Thanks to this high sensitivity, you probably think cilantro tastes like soap.

Or you just may be a soulless robot.

>>6374670

It's the McDonald's of Mexican food.

McDonald's was once a major investor in Chipotle, but they divested sometime in 2006.

Still, it's pretty corporate and soulless like McDick's, and nothing says shit-tier like watching some pimply-faced high school kid fuck up grilling and chopping up chicken or whatever it is that passes for asada while some other pimply-faced little fuck fails yet again at trying to roll up a burrito.

>>6378731
Not to mention that their burritos are bloated bags of shit so stuffed with nothing but filler that the shitty tortillas they use can't hold it together without the support of aluminum foil.

Also, it tastes bland as fuck and they somehow managed to make their hot sauces not only bland but so far from hot they might as well just give you ketchup packets instead.

>>6378701
>norteño food is similar to texmex
Yes and rats are like mice, but I don't want to eat either

>>6378759
>implying you know anything about Mexican food

>>6378731

Taco Bell, is the McDonald's of Mexican food. Chipotle is this...>>6378755

Bloated shit food, not at all good.

>>6378759

I'd eat either if they were cooked well. I'd like them better than candied beets or chocolate I bet.

>>6373983
I'm so sorry. Tasting dishwater every time someone tries to season something would be awful. At least it only happens with one spice

>>6378731
>It's the McDonald's of Mexican food.

>mcdonald's was an investor, so it's the the mcdonald's of mexican food

try again. you've clearly never had the actual mcdonald's equivalents like baja fresh. i'm not a fan of chipotle but the quality of the food is significantly higher.

>>6378763
>implying being a hired gun in a borderland shantytown makes you an expert
Ok Sgt. B.