Pollo Pulquero is a dish best served in the dark

Look at those beans!  They're sitting there because Pollo Pulquero is ugliest tasty dish you've ever seen.  Rick doesn't even put a picture of it in the book!  It's sort of symptomatic of being cooked in a slow cooker for six hours, so what can you do.

The prep on this one is silly easy.  You put things in a slow cooker, and then you come back.  So I'll be economical with my words.  Write a to do list, get some groceries and make the jump.

When life hands you limes, make Cochinita Pibil

I wouldn't have thought of this as being roasted suckling pig, as per the translation of cochinita pibil.  Rick says that this is only an approximation anyway.  We didn't roast anything, it was slow cooked; it wasn't a whole pig, just a shoulder; and it wasn't between 2 and 6 weeks old, I didn't check its birth certificate but I know that it spent 6 weeks at least in the freezer.

The complicated recipe is here while the easy recipe can be found in Mexican Everyday.  Break out your favourite citrus juicer and don't get any pulp in your eye.

Mole Amarillo Explosion!

Enough stupid substitutions! It was time to make something properly for once, even if it meant trekking all the way across town to get one ingredient.  And there you have them: Guajillo Chiles.  Because we were looking for dried ones, there was some hope that they would be found in the international aisle of our local grocery store.  The only thing we found were more varieties of Herdez salsa.  Although one particular specialty store has Guajillos advertised on their website, they had none.  However, a tiny store right across the street has a virtually unlimited supply.  May we present: Good Price Grocery Store!

Friday Night Mexican, Slowly

This week it's a mash up between two of our favourites: Mexican and slow cookers.  One year, instead of spending my grandmother's Christmas gift on the usual rent and food I finally put it to good use and bought myself a bona fide Crock-Pot.  I realized that with minimal effort and no attention, these magical devices would do all of the cooking for you.  Since then, a wealth of soups, stews and pulled pork have spilled forth from its ceramic vessel at the blistering speed of 0.125 meal/hr.