{"id":181,"date":"2010-01-14T22:46:18","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T22:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/zombielapdance\/2010\/01\/14\/food-frakker-revenge-of-the-lutefisk\/"},"modified":"2012-08-17T05:23:59","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T05:23:59","slug":"food-frakker-revenge-of-the-lutefisk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/zombielapdance\/2010\/01\/14\/food-frakker-revenge-of-the-lutefisk\/","title":{"rendered":"Food Frakker: Revenge of the Lutefisk"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve had this dream of one day becoming a loving and nurturing abuela<\/span>. To that end I have radically improved my tortilla manufacturing capabilities.
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\nArmed with a tortilla press and some instant masa flour, I realized that I was making tortillas that weren’t anywhere near as wet and greasy as I would expect a corn tortilla to be. So I got the wet masa in a bag.
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\nFive pounds of fresh tortilla goop for only two bucks! Corn meal is one of those instances where the cost and content of human food approaches that of animal feed.<\/p>\n

No two ways about it, you can’t press the tortilla straight onto the metal of the press. You need wax paper or plastic.
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Step two of the authentic tacos at home project is to get some meat. As it turns out, the local guero <\/span>supermarket actually sells barbacoa in a pre-cooked bag.
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\nLet’s zoom in on the relevant part:
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Que sabroso!<\/span>
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You want to spice up that barbacoa taco a bit? Maybe you should try some of Jay’s homemade habanero pickles.
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\nIs it hot? Why would a jar of habanero slices, habanero seeds, and vinegar be hot? Feel free to heap it on.<\/p>\n

Remember that dried lutefisk, or "stockfish<\/a>," I dragged back from Cranfills Gap? Well, it was stinking up my room, even when wrapped in two layers of plastic bags, so I had to do something with it (not just hang it up on wall<\/a> with ornaments).<\/p>\n

As it happens, the Italians frequently cook with stockfish<\/a>, and they don’t prepare it with lye. They prepare it by re-hydrating it, and then frying it in olive oil and adding tomato sauce.<\/p>\n

You know, the way any reasonable human would try cooking it.<\/p>\n

I don’t want to sound racist or anything, but I think the Italians might be intrinsically superior to my people.<\/p>\n

This is what the stockfish looks like after several days of soaking in water and salt.
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\nIt’s swollen significantly. After the second water change most of the smell disappeared. I was supposed to pound it to break up the fibers before the re-hydration, but it still seemed very palatable.<\/p>\n

It was not easy to peel off the skin.
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\nWhich was surprisingly tough.
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\nI’ve saved it. I’m considering turning it into a purse or something.<\/p>\n

Then came the dusting in flour and spices.
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Then the frying.
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In honor of the Tuscany people, I also made tomato sauce with pasta.
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It was pretty crispy and still a little chewy, but it didn’t taste half bad. If I had a pantry with stacks of stockfish, I would eat this every week. If nothing else it looks a lot better than lutefisk.
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