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Let me see how I can keep this on topic. . .
well might be better to send me any answers off list.
Quite possibly my great great grandmother Antonia Espinoza [dob: abt
1820] from Tepetongo, Zacatecas taught my great grandmother Antonia
Santa Maria [dob: 1862] from Tepetongo, Zacatecas who taught my
grandmother Virginia Diaz [dob: 1886] from Las Animas, Jalisco who then
taught my aunt Julia Puentes [dob: 1918] from Santa Paula, CA how to
make nopales and she this past weekend taught me [dob: 1953] from San
Jose, CA how to make them.
Just yesterday was the first time I willingly ate
nopales and was pleasantly surprised that they were so so good. It
makes me wonder why I turned my nose up at them when I was a kid, then
again I hated everything that looked like a vegetable back then and I
love them all now.
Here's the recipe:
carefully harvest new nopales about the size of your hand
carefully dethorn them
wash them and cut in 1/2" cubes
boil them for 10 minutes and then throw the water out.
sautee garlic and onion and then add the boiled nopales
cook a little more salt and eat or add chile and eat or add eggs and
chile and eat, etc.
I just sauteed an onion in olive oil and added the nopales since I
didn't have any chile ready to go and i was to lazy to do this extra
step.
I really really enjoyed them.
so I said all that to say that if you have a recipe for nopales that
you know filtered down from either Jalisco, Zacatecas or Aguascalientes
please give me the history and the details.
joseph
ps: I'd really not like to turn this forum into a recipe exchange, but
if I get enough replies to indicate and interest I promise to make up a
file in the files area and include the recipes there. Make sure to give
your history as I don't want anything that is not from the area of our
research. So send my your answers off-list to my private email address:
makas@...
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