Once Upon A Time In Culinary Mexico

[Armadillo]

Has any of you guys ever tasted, cooked, reviewed "Puerco Pibil"? I found recipes in the web and ponder about whether or not to cook it.

And please, guys, don't shoot the chef.

 

[The Hot Pepper]

Wow what an interesting dish! It says Mexican but I would bet this is Mayan. Thanks for the heads up. The finished pics I saw look amazing.

 

[Armadillo]

That's where I found the idea!

[video=youtube;Vrw5FkLutWk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vrw5FkLutWk&feature=related[/video]

 

[texas blues]

Groovy! Love the banana leaf. He stole the idea from Sumbits and FD4! Pork looks good.

 

[Armadillo]

Here's the Wikipedia article about cochinita pibil aka puerco pibil:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochinita_pibil

 

[The Hot Pepper]

"The Mayan word "pibil" means "buried"."

I was right, I was right!

Hehe. It sounds damn amazing. Add some heat and I am all there.

 

[Armadillo]

Well, the recipe contains habaneros. So you could use more habs or hotter peppers.

 

[The Hot Pepper]

I'll try it this summer on the BBQ and post results.

 

[salsalady]

That looks very good! and not that hard to do.

When I first saw the line in the first post about "don't shoot the chef" I thought it might have some controversial ingredient like "milk-fed veal" or fois gras in it. LOL!

And did you see that guy chopping up the habaneros with his bare hands? I'd like to see the off-camera footage for after he did that!

 

[pileiton]

I'll try it this summer on the BBQ and post results.

A REAL man doesn't wait for the weather to get good, he gets drunk enough to brave the elements!

SL, that reminds me of the ban they had here in Chicago on foie`gras.

 

[Armadillo]

And did you see that guy chopping up the habaneros with his bare hands? I'd like to see the off-camera footage for after he did that!

Watch his movies! I'm sure he didn't shed one single tear! I assume this is no pulp fiction. It's pulp reality...

 

[Armadillo]

We have full house this weekend so I decided to prepare some puerco pibil. Unfortunately I couldn't get hold of one of the puerco pibil defining ingredients: Annatto-seeds! Dillo FAIL! I ordered them on the web now. But for today it will be "Puerco Lake Constance, kinda Yucatanish style". I'll post the results in the kitchen area.