Okay, I can't find honeycomb tripe (nor any tripe) to make this from scratch.
Please don't tell me to drive 30 miles to a Mexican market to look for tripe because even before gas price hikes I wouldn't drive 30 miles just to pick up one item. I've actually been enjoying canned menudo. I love spicy food and I love soup. I'm wondering whether it's "kosher" (ha! how we do integrate some phrases into our speech) to grate some Asiago or Oaxaca cheese on top of this soup. Would it be considered heresy? (Come to think of it, would I care if it's heresy?) But do any of you menudo lovers add cheese?
Okay, I can't find honeycomb tripe (nor any tripe) to make this from scratch.
Can't help you with that: When I worked at a grocery store (Publix) in Florida, the meat department always carried tripe. Here in Northern California, tripe is also available in supermarkets. There must be some local prejudice against it, or the markets would carry it, right?
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I've actually been enjoying canned menudo. I love spicy food and I love soup. I'm wondering whether it's "kosher" (ha! how we do integrate some phrases into our speech) to grate some Asiago or Oaxaca cheese on top of this soup. Would it be considered heresy? (Come to think of it, would I care if it's heresy?) But do any of you menudo lovers add cheese?
I like menudo too. I haven't tried it with cheese, but it sounds good to me, especially if you also have homemade tortilla chips and a squeeze of lime juice.
Okay, I can't find honeycomb tripe (nor any tripe) to make this from scratch.
You're lucky. I tried that stuff once. The broth and hominy was good, but the tripe was disgusting.
LOL I probably like tripe not because of menudo but because tripe and the 'lights" are common in Scottish cooking. Not easy to find in the U.S., though, and I don't seek them out. My mom won't admit it but I suspect my grandmother put tripe in her wonderful lamb stew with barley.
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jmcquown said:
of it, would I care if it's heresy?) But do any of you menudo lovers add cheese?
Oh Hell no!!
Menudo and pozole peripherals include oregano/lime/jalapenos (required) and shredded cabbage and tortilla chips (opt).
What he said. And maybe some sliced radishes.
Jill - you don't have any Hispanic markets near you? Here in Metro Daytwah, the Barrio is the place to get all that kind of stuff. The sterile, white, suburban grocery stores where we live would never carry anything like that. (Although they all seem to have lobster torture tanks.)
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jmcquown said:
of it, would I care if it's heresy?) But do any of you menudo lovers add cheese?
Oh Hell no!!
Menudo and pozole peripherals include oregano/lime/jalapenos (required) and shredded cabbage and tortilla chips (opt).
What he said. And maybe some sliced radishes.
Jill - you don't have any Hispanic markets near you? Here in Metro Daytwah, the Barrio is the place to get all that kind of stuff. The sterile, white, suburban grocery stores where we live would never carry anything like that. (Although they all seem to have lobster torture tanks.)
Pablo
Sorry, but I live in the country outside of the city and the barrio (if there is such a thing in Memphis' primarily black population). I can't even find lobster torture tanks, except in some restaurants, if that is any comfort. My seafood is all frozen or pre-frozen. Was simply an idle question. Please don't gun me down for asking <G>
Sorry, but I live in the country outside of the city and the barrio (if there is such a thing in Memphis' primarily black population). I can't even find lobster torture tanks, except in some restaurants, if that is any comfort. My seafood is all frozen or pre-frozen. Was simply an idle question. Please don't gun me down for asking <G>
When Erik and I visited Memphis, we were struck by the number of groceries selling Hispanic foodstuffs. The Memphis area has quite a few, and there's at least one "super mercado" within 10 miles of you. No guarantee they'd have the honeycomb tripe, but it sounds like a sensible place to look. They can also be interesting places just to poke around to see what other things are available.
Okay, I can't find honeycomb tripe (nor any tripe) to make this from scratch.
Please don't tell me to drive 30 miles to a Mexican market to look for tripe because even before gas price hikes I wouldn't drive 30 miles just to pick up one item. I've actually been enjoying canned menudo. I love spicy food and I love soup. I'm wondering whether it's "kosher" (ha! how we do integrate some phrases into our speech) to grate some Asiago or Oaxaca cheese on top of this soup. Would it be considered heresy? (Come to think of it, would I care if it's heresy?) But do any of you menudo lovers add cheese?
Jill
I had some canned pazole for the first time Sunday. I think that's the same thing as menudo without the tripe. I added some chili powder and a bunch of black pepper to it when I heated it up because it wasn't quite spicy enough.
I wouldn't add cheese. I would eat cheese as an *accompaniment*, along with the warm tortillas.
Someone else mentioned adding shredded cabbage and jalapenos. I like that idea.
Okay, I can't find honeycomb tripe (nor any tripe) to make this from scratch.
Please don't tell me to drive 30 miles to a Mexican market to look for tripe because even before gas price hikes I wouldn't drive 30 miles just to pick up one item. I've actually been enjoying canned menudo. I love spicy food and I love soup. I'm wondering whether it's "kosher" (ha! how we do integrate some phrases into our speech) to grate some Asiago or Oaxaca cheese on top of this soup. Would it be considered heresy? (Come to think of it, would I care if it's heresy?) But do any of you menudo lovers add cheese?
Jill
I had some canned pazole for the first time Sunday. I think that's the same thing as menudo without the tripe. I added some chili powder and a bunch of black pepper to it when I heated it up because it wasn't quite spicy enough.
I wouldn't add cheese. I would eat cheese as an *accompaniment*, along with the warm tortillas.
Someone else mentioned adding shredded cabbage and jalapenos. I like that idea.
Bob
The menudo I bought was quite spicy. When I opened the can I skimmed off the congealed fat on the top and added some dried basil and a little garlic and heated it up. It was quite tasty. You are right though, the cheese would be best on the side. It was just an idle question.
On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 23:14:52 -0500, jmcquown <[email hidden]>
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Sorry, but I live in the country outside of the city and the barrio (if there is such a thing in Memphis' primarily black population). I can't even find lobster torture tanks, except in some restaurants, if that is any comfort. My seafood is all frozen or pre-frozen. Was simply an idle question. Please don't gun me down for asking <G>
When Erik and I visited Memphis, we were struck by the number of groceries selling Hispanic foodstuffs. The Memphis area has quite a few, and there's at least one "super mercado" within 10 miles of you. No guarantee they'd have the honeycomb tripe, but it sounds like a sensible place to look. They can also be interesting places just to poke around to see what other things are available.
Ariane
Really? Where's a "super mercado" in Cordova? I've never run across one.
Okay, I can't find honeycomb tripe (nor any tripe) to make this from scratch.
Can't help you with that: When I worked at a grocery store (Publix) in Florida, the meat department always carried tripe. Here in Northern California, tripe is also available in supermarkets. There must be some local prejudice against it, or the markets would carry it, right?
They carry hog jowls, buckets of chitterlings (chitlins); stuff like that. No tripe. Tripe is not a common item for southern cooking.
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I've actually been enjoying canned menudo. I love spicy food and I love soup. I'm wondering whether it's "kosher" (ha! how we do integrate some phrases into our speech) to grate some Asiago or Oaxaca cheese on top of this soup. Would it be considered heresy? (Come to think of it, would I care if it's heresy?) But do any of you menudo lovers add cheese?
I like menudo too. I haven't tried it with cheese, but it sounds good to me, especially if you also have homemade tortilla chips and a squeeze of lime juice.
Bob
I'll try it with some tortilla chips and lime the next time 🙂 Thanks, Bob.
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Jill said:
Okay, I can't find honeycomb tripe (nor any tripe) to make this from scratch.
Can't help you with that: When I worked at a grocery store (Publix) in Florida, the meat department always carried tripe. Here in Northern California, tripe is also available in supermarkets. There must be some local prejudice against it, or the markets would carry it, right?
They carry hog jowls, buckets of chitterlings (chitlins); stuff like that. No tripe. Tripe is not a common item for southern cooking.
I can find tripe in any supermarket here in cesspool Florida, but then again we have a HUGE Mexican, Cuban and Puerto Rican population, so I guess that's to be expected. I can even find tripe at WalMart. (I don't know if it's the specific kind you're looking for, though. - I wouldn't touch tripe with my least favorite spatula.)
Sorry, but I live in the country outside of the city and the barrio (if there is such a thing in Memphis' primarily black population). I can't even find lobster torture tanks, except in some restaurants, if that is any comfort. My seafood is all frozen or pre-frozen. Was simply an idle question. Please don't gun me down for asking <G>
Jill
Next time you're in town, take a look along Summer Avenue. Not a barrio yet but there are a couple of small stores and the Kroger has added to their produce offerings--lots of strange chilis. They even had some entertainment--guy juggling jicamas.
I can find tripe in any supermarket here in cesspool Florida, but then again we have a HUGE Mexican, Cuban and Puerto Rican population, so I guess that's to be expected. I can even find tripe at WalMart. (I don't know if it's the specific kind you're looking for, though. - I wouldn't touch tripe with my least favorite spatula.)
Oh yeah? Well I wouldn't touch it with *someone else's* least favorite spatula!
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I can find tripe in any supermarket here in cesspool Florida, but then again we have a HUGE Mexican, Cuban and Puerto Rican population, so I guess that's to be expected. I can even find tripe at WalMart. (I don't know if
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the specific kind you're looking for, though. - I wouldn't touch tripe with my least favorite spatula.)
Oh yeah? Well I wouldn't touch it with *someone else's* least favorite spatula!
nancy
Okay, let me rephrase that then, I wouldn't touch my spatula to the spatula you borrowed if it touched tripe. :~)
Sorry, but I live in the country outside of the city and the barrio (if there is such a thing in Memphis' primarily black population). I can't even find lobster torture tanks, except in some restaurants, if that is any comfort. My seafood is all frozen or pre-frozen. Was simply an idle question. Please don't gun me down for asking <G>
Jill
Next time you're in town, take a look along Summer Avenue. Not a barrio yet but there are a couple of small stores and the Kroger has added to their produce offerings--lots of strange chilis. They even had some entertainment--guy juggling jicamas.
LOL! I try to avoid Summer Avenue unless I'm going to Charlie's Meat Market and the Market Basket (great produce!) Are they still showing the Summer Avenue hookers on the news? I always found that amusing. They'd show the mug shots and tell what their prices were and at what intersection they could be found! News serving the Memphis community... uh huh!
Hard to believe the first Holiday Inn was located down that way. Kemmons Wilson would spin in his grave at the hourly rates (if the place is even still there). 😉
When Erik and I visited Memphis, we were struck by the number of groceries selling Hispanic foodstuffs. The Memphis area has quite a few, and there's at least one "super mercado" within 10 miles of you. No guarantee they'd have the honeycomb tripe, but it sounds like a sensible place to look. They can also be interesting places just to poke around to see what other things are available.
Ariane
Really? Where's a "super mercado" in Cordova? I've never run across one.
I didn't say it was in Cordova, I said it's less than 10 miles from you. ;P A quick look in the phone book or a quick search using Yahoo's online yellow pages should yield some results.
jmcquown wrote:> up one item. I've actually been enjoying canned menudo. I love spicy food
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and I love soup. I'm wondering whether it's "kosher" (ha! how we do integrate some phrases into our speech) to grate some Asiago or Oaxaca cheese on top of this soup. Would it be considered heresy? (Come to think of it, would I care if it's heresy?) But do any of you menudo lovers add cheese?
Out here in California, menudo has been around for a couple centuries. It is considered a "restorative" for (fill in the blank) and is often featured on weekends and served until early morning. Mostly what I have seen as garnish are limes to squeeze, Mexican oregano leaves, and chopped onions. Radishes and cabbage are fairly new around here, but they go well. And, of course, jalapenos for the macho types. Cheese won't hurt it but I'm not sure it will be much of an enhancer.
