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There's a Cinco De Mayo Feast throwdown ending on May 29th. Figured it was a good reason to go visit my local carneceria to confirm just how bad my spanish is. The meats are labeled only in spanish and I now realize that my 4 years of studying spanish in high school taught me how to ask for things like "where is the library (donde esta la biblioteca)?" but failed to teach me the names of meat cuts in spanish. What a messed up curriculum!
Thankfully I recognized skirt steak (arrachera) when seeing the cut. The butcher asked me in spanish if I wanted some already seasoned "preparada" (I believe) or not. I somehow managed to order some of both. I also picked up some cotija cheese, poblanos, and corn tortillas while there.
I fired up the Santa Maria pit with oak for the cook and started off roasting the poblanos and scallions:
Followed by some onion slices and the meat (one on left was seasoned with a fajita seasoning and santa maria rub, the one on the right was marinated by the carneceria):
Warmed up some tortillas and plated my meal (with some pico de gallo, salsa verde, cotija cheese, lime juice and sour cream added):
The flavor of the meats was a little different and I had a hard time picking which I liked better and ultimately put both into each taco.
It was muy delicioso!
Thanks for looking
Thankfully I recognized skirt steak (arrachera) when seeing the cut. The butcher asked me in spanish if I wanted some already seasoned "preparada" (I believe) or not. I somehow managed to order some of both. I also picked up some cotija cheese, poblanos, and corn tortillas while there.
I fired up the Santa Maria pit with oak for the cook and started off roasting the poblanos and scallions:
Followed by some onion slices and the meat (one on left was seasoned with a fajita seasoning and santa maria rub, the one on the right was marinated by the carneceria):
Warmed up some tortillas and plated my meal (with some pico de gallo, salsa verde, cotija cheese, lime juice and sour cream added):
The flavor of the meats was a little different and I had a hard time picking which I liked better and ultimately put both into each taco.
It was muy delicioso!
Thanks for looking
