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chuckie
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Caldo de Res?
A beef rib soup that I ordered at a restaurant in Texas last week! Beef rib sections, lotsa meat, cabbage, corn on the cob, potatoes...other
stuff....WOW! what a meal on a cold West Texas day...Anyone ever seen this in Baja? Did I just miss it?
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Quote: Originally posted by chuckie  | | A beef rib soup that I ordered at a restaurant in Texas last week! Beef rib sections, lotsa meat, cabbage, corn on the cob, potatoes...other
stuff....WOW! what a meal on a cold West Texas day...Anyone ever seen this in Baja? Did I just miss it? |
Something like this??? I've had a bowl or nine....
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chuckie
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That's it, a wonderful dish! Got the recipe (Google) and when I can get enough guests together, will make a batch or a vat....
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You're making me hungry! Beef soup with all the goodies. One of my favorites, too, chuckie. And if it doesn't have the corncob, it's just not the
same. 
Yes, I've eaten it at many different Mexican cafes...both Baja and mainland..since my first bowl in Zacataces in 1962. I remember that meal very
clearly, because my dad loved it, too...but then we're both soup/stew lovers. This type of caldo de res is very similar to a meaty soup-stew my
family has been making for generations in the Dakotas. Yup, I love it!
The last couple places I've eaten it in Baja are...
1. A cafe in El Rosario. On the left as you came from the north...not far past the sharp left. A bus we had been following pulled in and we parked
next to it with our boat. It was like a cafeteria and the caldo de res was offered to the passengers, along with a buffet-style selection. I have a
photo of that place and the food...somewhere?? The cafe's name started with a 'G', I think. What a welcome hot treat after a long, cold bus ride.
2. In Mulege at least two cafes I can remember...plus my amigo's mother made it quite often. One cafe was this eatery across from the old El Candil,
when my friend, Mateo, restored and ran the original Candil restaurant. Like a lot of places, the main food attraction was the quick and easy
'birria', but this place also made the old-fashioned & delicious Caldo de Res.
Another quick stop cafe in Mulege that served the caldo (if you got there before it was sold out) was a little place on the left as you entered Mulege
from under the bridge. Again, birria in a styrofoam cup was the main treat here. Sorry, again I've got a photo somewhere...but I'm a bit 'research
challenged' this morning. 
Hey, it's dang good. Especially on a cold day!
I do what the voices in my tackle box tell me.
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Janine and Chapis put out an amazing Caldo de Mariscos at La Bahia Restaurant at San Lucas Cove, only on weekends (not to mention a dozen other dishes
too pretty to eat!).
I don't have a BUCKET LIST, but I do have a F***- IT LIST a mile long!
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Great dish. I don't know how you missed it in "the" Baja. lol
I've seen and eaten it everywhere down there.
The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.
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chuckie
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Ya know Bob53, I don't either? I have had a place in Mulege for over 30 years, and I guess there are just so many good things to eat, I just missed
that one. Roger, thanks for making me feel silly, I have eaten in all the places you showed, many times, and like I said, just missed the Caldo de
Res.....Dang...Thanks
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Once you've tasted a good pozole, it's hard to settle for caldo de res. There are some great pozoles in restaurants over
here. Many are not hominy bombs and some use choice cuts of pork like chamorro or pork shoulder.
My other favorite Mexican soup is caldo tlalpeno. I grew to love it in SoCal but I don't know any restaurants in my part of Sonora that serve
it. I will, occasionally, make it for parties and it is a real crowd pleaser. I believe it's from Jalisco or maybe DF. Like a chunky chicken vegetable
soup with chayote, carrots, onions, sometimes chickpeas or potatoes. A chipotle chili en adobado essence, as well. Usually garnished
with avocado, cilantro, cheese.
Caldo Tlalpeno
[Edited on 1-18-2015 by Hook]
[Edited on 1-18-2015 by Hook]
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Many stores, big and small and swap meet vegetable venders in Tijuana, offer a bag loaded with cut vegies with and without cob corn for this type of
soup. Just add the meat and seasoning and cook.
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chuckie, while doing some rummaging in my photo files, I came across a photo of the cafe in El Rosario that served the Caldo de Res. I combined it
with luvt2fish's nice stock photo and here it is.
Hey, my memory was not that bad...the cafe name does indeed start with a 'G'.
If by road, try it on your way south the next time. Bon Appetite at the...Restaurant El Grullense
p.s. I 'think' the name derives from a metal framework for holding a grill or pot over an open fire- hence GRULLENSE, GRULLERO, et al. Seems
plausible for a cafe name.
Sometime (and somewhere) this winter...on a particularly cold day, I'm going to make some.
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lencho....I've asked a buddy who is quite a BBQ expert and he told me it's not a common term at all, but that a lot of locals on the mainland are
called 'grullense'. I'm assuming it comes from the plain food and style of cooking. Not something you will find in resort areas. Tons of places
called El Grullense, as you said.
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chuckie
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Roger, as the kookie krumbleth, I'll be going through El Rosario in about 2 weeks...I'll make it a point to stop at the place.....full report....
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Thank you chuckie for this post .. I was inspired and made my combined version of this and (thank you Hook) caldo tlalpeno that seriously hit the
spot! I didn't make it s p I c y tho as am unable to eat s p I c y foods - but T could add various hot sauces to his taste content!
Buen provecho to all ..
edited to correct some odd auto correct to the word S P I C Y ??
[Edited on 1-18-2015 by CaboMagic]
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Man, that beef soup looks FANTASTIC!
The only place I have seen and tasted anything like that was at a Mexican restaurant in Placentia, California, near Cal-State Fullerton, believe it or
not. That restaurant was located in a well hidden tiny Mexican enclave, less than a mile from the Cal State Fullerton campus. I was shocked when I
found it.
The area looked like parts of TJ, Ensenada and even Mulege. The restaurant was run down looking, just enough to be absolutely authentic Mexican. I
used to order both the Chicken Soup and the Beef Soup (with a Pena Fiel sangria soda), which looked exactly like the photo luv2fish posted.
I have tried to make the soup myself, but could never get the broth right. Used Chuck roast beef with the bone. The only thing that I can think of
to approximate the clear broth is to cook the meat in water very slowly and then cook the vegetables, especially the potatoes, separately, then
assemble the serving of a bowl of the soup dishing up from the separate components.
One thing I specifically remember about the soup is that everything was perfectly cooked and the carrots tasted like carrots, the celery tasted like
celery, the corn tasted like corn and the potatoes tasted like potatoes instead of the soup I would make where the vegetables were cooked in the broth
along side the beef and then all the vegies lost a lot of their individually distinct flavor and the broth got cloudy.
Does anybody out there know how to cook this stuff?
I have a feeling it isn't easy to get it just right.
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Getting the veges cooked perfectly is mostly about timing the introduction of the vegetables. You cant put hard vegetables in at the same time as
squashes.
Geographical prejudice not withstanding, I have always thought that the best Mexican food in the world was in Southern California. Solid middle/upper
class Mexicans, experimenting with the bounty of California agriculture, is a great combination.
Finding a killer place in Placentia is no surprise to me.
Imagine what you could find in Pico Rivera or other East LA barrios in some hole in the wall restaurant?
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Caldo de Moose is great
..and a mainstay with the First Nation members in Canada. 
Bob Durrell
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| Quote: Originally posted by Hook |
Once you've tasted a good pozole, it's hard to settle for caldo de res. There are some great pozoles in restaurants over
here. Many are not hominy bombs and some use choice cuts of pork like chamorro or pork shoulder.
My other favorite Mexican soup is caldo tlalpeno. I grew to love it in SoCal but I don't know any restaurants in my part of Sonora that serve
it. I will, occasionally, make it for parties and it is a real crowd pleaser. I believe it's from Jalisco or maybe DF. Like a chunky chicken vegetable
soup with chayote, carrots, onions, sometimes chickpeas or potatoes. A chipotle chili en adobado essence, as well. Usually garnished
with avocado, cilantro, cheese.
Caldo Tlalpeno
[Edited on 1-18-2015 by Hook]
[Edited on 1-18-2015 by Hook] |
I am a big fan of pozole, but when it comes to beef, which I seldom eat, it must be birria. Although, I actually prefer birria de chiva. Just can't
find that in SoCal.
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| Quote: Originally posted by Bajahowodd |
I am a big fan of pozole, but when it comes to beef, which I seldom eat, it must be birria. Although, I actually prefer birria de chiva. Just can't
find that in SoCal. |
When I lived at Half Moon Bay birria de chiva was the house specialty at a Mexican restaurant there and that's a long way from SoCal.
Bob Durrell
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El Maguey in San Juan Capistrano serves a nice bowl of Caldo de Res...used to go there on cold winter days and order some.
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Sorry for the soupjacking, but one of the better caldo tlalpenos I've had was at Ricardo's in San Juan Capistrano.
Is it still there?
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