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tehag
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Al Pastor
Restaurant Tio Lupe's in Loreto, BCS now offers tacos al pastor. They are DA KINE!
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vandenberg
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Tom,
On a rotisserie with the pineapple on top ??
It's delicious fare when done right. Yummm.....yummm 
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DENNIS
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Ah yes..Those slow spinning balls of thin-sliced pork are wonderful. I hear they use them as an implement of torture in Guantanamo prison.
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al pastor - my favorite:
There's a slice of pineapple on top of the skewer, but somehow I managed to miss it in my photo.
Nena
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DENNIS
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OK .... That last foto did it. I'm down the avenue to Sharky's and the Taco Shop.
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Hook
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I wish I could find some relatively LEAN al pastor. I love the seasonings but it's always pretty fatty.
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vandenberg
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Love that stuff.
Always been curious how they keep all that meat together.
I know there isn't a hog made with a single piece of meat that large.
I also know that the trick is in the marinade for the flavor, but do they marinate the pork before they make it into a ball ?
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tehag
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Al pastor
The pork steaks are skewered into a layered plug. Lupe uses a halved pineapple, one half at the top and the other at the bottom of the stacked plug.
The meat is sauced first, then skewered. I knocked back a quartet of Lupe's last night, and if it was fatty at all, I sure didn't notice. $15p ea.
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by vandenberg
Love that stuff.
Always been curious how they keep all that meat together.
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I've watched them do it. They layer thin sliced pork between a forming layer of a more thick muslim delite and, from what I can gather, a few slow
spins in the face of high heat, it becomes solid, to be shaved of itself into warm tortillas and enjoyed as Tacos A Pastor. Disfrute.
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Hook
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Mexican gyros!
They even stole the tortilla idea from pita bread.....
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Can't remember who said it.................
PORK FAT RULES!
Ken
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Hook
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| Quote: | Originally posted by tripledigitken
Can't remember who said it.................
PORK FAT RULES!
Ken |
Maybe Marlon Brando.
Or Big Pappi.
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http://cruftbox.com/blog/archives/001184.html
Check out this article on making your own cooker and how the meat is made.
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DianaT
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A lot more work than I want to tackle.
The Wikipedia entry for the tacos al pastor is interesting---taking Wikikpedia always with a grain of salt.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_pastor
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Sallysouth
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| Quote: | Originally posted by tripledigitken
Can't remember who said it.................
PORK FAT RULES!Emeril Lagasse
Ken |
Happiness is just a Baja memory away...
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tehag
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al pastor
I've always wondered why a taco called of the shepherd is made of pork.
Baaaoink.
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Hook
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WoW! Meatloaf on a stick! That takes care of man's second biggest urge.
I love the way the Greeks season lamb.
Have i hijacked this thread sufficiently??????
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tripledigitken
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Yes Sally you're right.
It was the Bam Bam guy.
And he's right.
Ken
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| Quote: | Originally posted by jdtrotter
A lot more work than I want to tackle.
The Wikipedia entry for the tacos al pastor is interesting---taking Wikikpedia always with a grain of salt.
Too much work for me too!
Your link didn't work for me diane, Safari couldn't deliver the page. so I went to wikepedia looking for al pastor, and it was interesting, though
not terribly informative:
http://www.wikepedia.com/al_pastor.cfm?pt=2&sp=2&vid...
but great stimulus for stream-of-consciousness thinking
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_pastor |
Hmmm... maybe good for thinking inside the box too?
Note to all: Please excuse rather goofy but very worthwhile post. Think I'll
go look for a taco.
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Paula
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Okay, what I have learned fro all this is that there is a wikipedia.org AND a wikepdia.com!
I'll research this further and start a new thread when I have a definitive opinion on which is better
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