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[VAN DELL JORDAN <vdjor AT yahoo.com>]

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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