[Homestead] beer butt chicken

eureka at hctc.net eureka at hctc.net
Thu Apr 12 14:20:04 EDT 2007


Van--Gosh! Shows you what I know about gourmet food :) 
With all the fear of Alzheimers now in using aluminum 
cookwear, how has inserting an aluminum can up the 
posterior of a chicken made it all the way to the chefs?

--Sage
way out in Texas


On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:08:16 -0700 (PDT)
  VAN DELL JORDAN <vdjor at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Sage,
> catalogs such as "chefs" now carry special pans for
> cooking chicken that way.
> Van Dell
> 
> 
> --- eureka at hctc.net wrote:
> 
>> Yes, that's how it's done (or at least how I prepare
>> 
>> them). However in some questionable restaurants I'm
>> not so 
>> sure they don't reheat the left over beans the next
>> day by 
>> putting them back into the skillet. So perhaps this
>> is 
>> where the "re" in refried comes in?
>> 
>> They don't mention (nor can I taste) beer in the
>> cooking 
>> of borracho beans, but it seems highly plausible.
>> There 
>> are roadside stands here selling "beer butt chicken"
>> where 
>> they invert the bird over an opened beer can during
>> the 
>> cooking. I have no idea if this is a nation-wide
>> backwoods 
>> phenomenon, or indigenous to my canyon.
>> 
>> --Sage
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 09:44:57 -0700 (PDT)
>>   VAN DELL JORDAN <vdjor at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> > As far as I've seen refried beans are not refried
>> at
>> > all.  The cooked beans are put in a skillet and
>> fried
>> > but the first cooking was normal boiling (or would
>> you
>> > say simmering?)
>> > Van Dell
>> > 
>> > 
>> > --- Clansgian at wmconnect.com wrote:
>> > 
>> >> In a message dated 4/12/2007 8:07:38 AM Pacific
>> >> Daylight Time, 
>> >> eureka at hctc.net writes:
>> >> 
>> >> 
>> >> > The word "Frijoles" where I live is not only is
>> >> used as a 
>> >> > generic synonym for "bean" but it is also
>> refers
>> >> to 
>> >> > cooking them by mashing and refrying them, as
>> in
>> >> refried 
>> >> > beans. Thus, if black beans are prepared this
>> way
>> >> the menu 
>> >> > will say frijoles negra, etc. If they are
>> cooked
>> >> whole in 
>> >> > their broth they are called "borracho" although
>> I
>> >> don't 
>> >> > know what that word might translate to.
>> >> 
>> >> 'Frijoles' refering to refried beans is shorthand
>> >> for 'frijoles refritos'.    
>> >>  The dish called 'frijoles borrachos' comes from
>> the
>> >> recipe usually calling 
>> >> for cooking the beans in beer.   </HTML>
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