bajadock
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Old School Mexican Food
What is your favorite "old school" Mexican restaurant? Looking for your choice on authentic mex cuisine, regardless of the ambiance.
Dined at El Nido for second time ever this week. Enjoyed it very much, as my guest grew up with the music of Los Panchos and also enjoyed the simple
flavors and fresh tortillas. El Nido isn't my favorite, but, it fits in once in a while for a fun change.
Disqualifications include the word "fusion", combining styles of cuisine with a hyphen("Baja-Thai-Cuban"), hip-hop background music or overwhelming
presence of Gringo customers.
My foto was retouched by friend Tom Gatch to bring out the mood of the sad ballad performance.
[Edited on 8-26-2012 by bajadock]
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DavidE
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El Taco de Huitzilopotchli, Ensenada
El Pulpo, outside of Rio Ixtapa, Guerrero
El Milenium 9 miles north of San Marcos Guerrero
Restaurant Tulúc, San Cristobal de Las Casas, Chiapas
Restaurant Guadalajara, Ciudad Insurgentes, B.C.S.
Restaurant Xcerét, Valladolíd, Quintana Roo
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Kalypso
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Old school?
San Angel Inn...Mexico City
La Capilla...Zaachila, Oaxaca
La Gran Parroquia...Veracruz City...breakfast and coffee service
El Chololo...Birra, just south of the Guadalajara airport
Restaurant LU...Morelia
Enchiladas Placeras Don Emiliano...evening street vendor, Patzcuaro
Casa Bonilla...Coatepec, Veracruz...Acamayas (huge river prawns) Enchipotlada
Tlamanalli...Teotitlan del Valle, Oaxaca...awesome mole negro
Azucena Zapoteca...San Martin Tilcajete, Oaxaca
Zitacuaro, Michoacan...Diana Kennedy's kitchen
I've had so many amazing food experiences in Mexico, it's hard to just pick a few.
If you friend really likes Los Panchos (I do too), ask her/him if they've heard the 60s classic...Edie Gorme & Los Panchos. Ranks in my top 10
favorite album of all time.
[Edited on 8-26-2012 by Kalypso]
[Edited on 8-26-2012 by Kalypso]
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bajajudy
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No music BUT
the Mercado Municipal here in San Jose gets my vote!
Only open for breakfast and lunch......closes at 5
As authentic as you can get
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DavidE
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Diana Kennedy, the Mexican food goddess
How are the prices? Her books almost start out with instructions how to plant granos de elote for a milpa. ¡Que autentico!
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KurtG
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| Quote: | Originally posted by bajajudy
No music BUT
the Mercado Municipal here in San Jose gets my vote!
Only open for breakfast and lunch......closes at 5
As authentic as you can get |
Glad to hear that is still the case. I ate there regularly back in the 90's and thought it was the best inexpensive food anywhere in Baja.
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jbcoug
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Judy,
where is Mercado Munincipal?
John
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Kalypso
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DavidE
Diana Kennedy, the Mexican food goddess
How are the prices? Her books almost start out with instructions how to plant granos de elote for a milpa. ¡Que autentico! |
She is tiny, dynamic, charming, fiesty and minces no words!
She purchased her property in the 70s and had to negotiate the water rights with the mayor of the town above her house, as her property has no natural
water sources. It also had large boulders which she was told she could not remove...so she built around them. Her house is and has been for 30+ years,
ecologically sound, sustainable and green.
This is what you see walking up her driveway
It really is an ecological preserve. Then you get to the entrance to her kitchen
Since her property has no water on it, she has a water collection system, along with several outdoor ovens and a grill
She also grows a great deal of what she eats. The soil in Michoacan is pretty good, it rains alot and they have nice warm growing days. Below are
beans, corn and there probably squash plants in there as well, all of which she grows and most of which are heirloom varieties
She does grow her own corn which she nixtamalizes. Sometimes she sends it up the hill to the village to be ground on their mill. More likely, she
grinds it herself...
She is also devoted to lard, which, of course, she renders herself
I did 3 1/2 days of cooking classes with her. She is a traditionalist and a purist. You did it her way or no way at all. A few of the things we
made...
Guacamole con Frutas (typical of the state of Guanajuato and usually made this time of year when the fruit is in season and super ripe
Sopes for which we ground the corn. I think these were with chorizo
There are many different types of pozole and this one is traditionally served on Thursdays - and ONLY Thursdays - in marekts all over Guerrero
I am not a huge fan of huitlacoche
But this is probably one of the best things I've ever eaten...ever...huitlacoche, rajas, blue corn tortilla
This chorizo was stellar and I've replicated it pretty easily at home in San Diego...including letting it "cure" for 3 days by hanging it in my bath
tub. This, however, we made in DKs kitchen
And you can't leave without making mole
I've cooked from her cookbooks for more than 30 years. I've had people tell me her recipes are intimidating. While I understand their argument, I've
made so many of them, I know that they work and are truly reflective of intense research, scrupulous testing and preserve a traditional cuisine that
is astonishing in it's depth and breadth
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Kalypso,
Thank you for sharing that. I am re-inspired to cook Mexican food more often.
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Alfonsina's in 1972. Endless rice, beans and tortillas plus what ever the catch of the day was. I was a bright eyed 16 year old riding in a dune
buggy with a group of my old man's friends on Triumph's and Goldstar's. The old man stacked and I got to ride the Bonneville back to San Felipe from
Gonzaga.
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beans, squash and corn have been planted together since before Cortez could walk. it promotes a healthy garden as each consumes a different mineral or
something like that.
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BajaBlanca
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what a wonderful story behind DK kitchen and cooking. I also thank you for sharing !
and as for the best authentic cuisine: Joaquin's CACTUS right here in la bocana. He is the real deal and it is delicious.
there is another woman in town, named Renata, who will come to your home and prepare meals that are out of this world delicious. Her dad taught her
and is the supreme chef, but he is not well these days. they used to own a restaurant in puerto penasco - rocky point.
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Ateo
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I had some kick burro tacos al vapor in Guadalajara at a 7-11. 
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BajaBlanca
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Ateo ! you shoulda known better 
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