I’m putting together the material to do another quiz contest like my previous picture quiz, only this one will be about taco meat. I have about half the pictures ready to go, so it shouldn’t be that much longer.
This time I’ll see if I can find a prize that people will actually want (instead of cock-fighting videos).
Did I ever show you what I made with the gourami paste? I made a soup with lots of cabbage and rice.
The gourami gave it a taste like being smacked in the teeth by a barrel of fish guts.
Slightly, but not precipitously, less fishy tasting is these fried and breaded charal.
A fun snack to munch on, I could swear I could feel the crisp little eyeballs pop on my tongue.
I bought this Bubu Lubu bar at the cash register of a Mexican grocery.
It has marshmallows, chocolate, and a gummy filling.
Here’s a cilantro-sesame cracker with visible cilantro sprigs just under the surface.
From Phoenicia Mediterranean grocery, a yogurt drink, an herb-stuffed croissant, and a pastry whose name I forgot the moment after I mispronounced it to the man behind the deli counter.
On impulse I bought a bag of napalitos pre-cut from the HEB. What they don’t tell you about cactus, is that if you let it sit, a clear mucus drains out of it and leaks out of the bag.
Some barbacoa from a Mexican grocery. Like most of the grocery taco plates, the meat was sitting in a steam tray for an indefinite period, so it doesn’t have the fresh taste of a taco cart where everything is kept in a refrigerator and fried on the grill to heat it up.
This product looks like a corndog, but it is in fact a breakfast sausage on a stick wrapped in a pancake.
It was as amazing as it sounds.
I discovered a new meat behind the counter of the Fiesta carniceria. The label read: "Blood and tongue/ Morcilla".
It looked like pre-cooked sausage, so I tasted a little. It was kinda like a summer sausage, but with that blood sausage smell and taste. But it was when I fried it that the magic happened.
The morcilla melted into a glistening wad of congealed blood, dotted with gelatinous hunks of tongue. I couldn’t stop eating it, it was that delicious! I devoured about a pound of it in less than a day.