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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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