Menudo: yay or nay?

[Ns1]

Should I try it today?

Menudo is time intensive, taking some seven hours to make. The meat should be rinsed clean first. Menudo usually has tripe, honeycomb and "librillo" stomach beef meat along with the beef feet and tendons. The feet and tendons are boiled first at low to medium heat for about three hours. Skimming off the top layer of floating foam about every 15 minutes for the first hour helps the flavor. After the first three hours, the stomach meat should be added along with salt, an onion cut in half, and one or two heads of garlic. A very important part of the menudo is the chili paste that is added at this time as well. The menudo is allowed to continue boiling for an additional three hours while covered to avoid evaporation. Once it is almost done, add the hominy.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Yay! Red or white?

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Too much offal for my liking.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Nay, I have not tried it, but I do not think that I would willingly eat tendons, feet and stomachs.

 

[Gibsons]

Just had my first try at it a day ago, some real home-made stuff. It's got a pretty good but sort of peculiar earthy (?) flavor to it. I'll eat it again but it's not something I could do regularly.

 

[coldmeat]

Just grill a steak.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

It's good stuff! Most folks shy away from eating anything they didn't grow up eating. I encourage you to broaden your culinary horizons and try both varieties.

 

[CRXican]

I want to try it but just can't stomach the idea of eating intestine

 

[edro]

I'd rather try Minendo.

 

[BoomerD]

Feel free to eat it if you choose, but you'd have a fight on your hands if you tried to force me to eat it...I ain't THAT hungry yet. (although I admit that I've eaten MUCH worse in my life.) Just something about eating guts that doesn't settle well with me. (I don't eat liver either)

 

[JS80]

Sul Lung Tang > Menudo

http://www.yelp.com/biz/han-bat-sul-lung-tang-los-angeles

 

[ChanHo78]

fuck nay

 

[EvilYoda]

I never knew about menudo until I moved to Phoenix - my first time seeing it, I was like "oh...that's not so bad...it's kind of like a Chinese beef tripe soup"

Good stuff.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Brains in black butter
Smalahove (Half a sheep's head - eat the eye while it's hot)
Kidney Pie
Sweetbreads with mushrooms and garlic sauce
Toungue - all time best sandwich meat period.
Menudo red or white

Just a few of my favorite offal dishes. It's not about eating what some think of as disgusting things, it's about great flavor, texture and, celebrating culinary treats from cultures other than your own.

 

[ChanHo78]

Brains in black butter
Smalahove (Half a sheep's head - eat the eye while it's hot)
Kidney Pie
Sweetbreads with mushrooms and garlic sauce
Toungue - all time best sandwich meat period.
Menudo red or white

Just a few of my favorite offal dishes. It's not about eating what some think of as disgusting things, it's about great flavor, texture and, celebrating culinary treats from cultures other than your own.

meh ill stick with nachos

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

meh ill stick with nachos

Gastronomic coward.

 

[caddlad]

Just don't put any onions in.

 

[Kadarin]

I refuse to eat anything that any culture calls a "delicacy". I'm with the guy who suggested just grilling a steak.

 

[JS80]

I refuse to eat anything that any culture calls a "delicacy". I'm with the guy who suggested just grilling a steak.

404 delicacy not found

 

[ChanHo78]

Gastronomic coward.

damn straight! And I'm Asian too, i miss out on a lot of 'delicacies'

 

[Regs]

The terms delicacy and gourmet seem to have stretch their definition these days. Are they implying no one else makes it, they're special, or things people don't normally eat?

Scares the shit out of me when the words delicacy and gourmet are used when it comes to food. Especially when they are used in the frozen food section.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

What people don't realize is that ALL food is an acquired taste. The food that most Americans eat on a daily basis seem totally bizarre and disgusting when viewed from another culture's perspective.

As a Chef, I try to educate and create interest in broadening my customers palate but, I understand 90% of my customers will never try anything outside their comfort zone. I live for the remaining 10%

 

[PieIsAwesome]

Yes, but not like what is described. Honeycomb only for me. And even then it isn't something I would like to eat much of.

And menudo isn't supposed to have hominy. Once hominy is added it isn't menudo, but posole. Don't think its supposed to have the chili paste either, but it tastes better like that.

 

[Platypus]

tasty

 

[Slew Foot]

f'n nasty