I refuse to wash the menudo pan

[MoseyWalker]

that was used to cook menudo. I can't stand menudo. Not the looks of it. Not the smell of it. Not the taste of it.

Do you refuse to do something in your house?

I can't wash the menudo pan. I just CAN'T DO IT.

[Nicole]

1. I refuse to wash windows

So that means I have to pay someone else to do it.

[MoseyWalker]

2. Who needs, I mean, really needs

super clean windows?

Don't pay for what one doesn't really need!

Priorities have become so "screwn" in this world..........

peace

forgot to say thanks for your input! thanks!

[Nicole]

14. I need clean windows

Clean windows let more sun in, which helps with reducing hearing costs.

Plus I really like the way they look when they are super clean.

I don't think my priorities are screwn at all.

[MoseyWalker]

15. your right

having a good bunch of windows facing the south provides a great deal of solar heating.

Go for it.

I don't think your priorites are screwn, I just wanted an excuse to use the word.

[Nicole]

18. I have 8 windows

that face south so the solar heating is definitely a plus. It was 24° here this afternoon but the sun was shining & felt warm through the glass.
Of course I have to just about black them out in the summer for the same reason.

Screwn is a fun word, that was my first time using it. :rofl:

[trof]

3. Is it the tripe or the calf's foot that gets ya?

Menudo

A large saucepan (see note below)
1 calf's foot (about 1 to 1 1/2 pounds)
2 pounds honeycomb tripe
1 large onion
3 cloves garlic, peeled
6 peppercorns
2 teaspoons salt, or to taste
4 quarts of water
A comal or griddle
3 large chiles anchos
A spice grinder
A large chile poblano, peeled or 2 canned, peeled green chiles
The calf's foot
1/2 cup canned hominy (1 pound) drained (see note below)
Salt as necessary
1 scant teaspoon oregano

Have the butcher cut the calf's foot into four pieces. Cut the tripe into small squares. Put them into the pan with the rest of the ingredients. Cover with water and bring to a boil. Lower the flame and simmer uncovered for about 2 hours, or until the tripe and foot are just tender but not too soft. Meanwhile, toast the chilies well. Slit them open and remove the seeds and veins from the chile poblano, cut it into strips, and add to the meat while it is cooking. Remove the pieces of calf's foot from the pen, and when they are cool enough to handle, strip off the fleshy parts. Chop them roughly and return them to the pan.

Add hominy and continue cooking the menudo slowly, still uncovered, for another 2 hours.

Add salt as necessary. Sprinkle with oregano and serve (see note below).

This amount is sufficient for 7 or 8 people. It should be served in large, deep bowls with hot tortillas and small dishes of chopped chile serranos, finely chopped onion and wedges of lime for each person to help himself, along with Salsa de Tomate Verde Cruda to be eaten with tortillas.

[MoseyWalker]

5. That is one

evil food, I tell ya.

For those who haven't experienced it in their homes, consider yourself very, very lucky!

[trof]

8. Well, now of course I want to try it.

But I'd NEVER get the tripe part past Miz t.

[philosophie_en_rose]

4. I refuse to wash the dinuguan pan.

I refuse to smell, look at, or touch it. It's some of the foulest so-called food ever. Worse than haggis. Worse than balut.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinuguan

[trof]

10. holy shit

whoa

[jmowreader]

13. Do Filipinos eat ANYTHING a non-Filipino would consider food?

I know we as progressives are not supposed to denigrate the national dishes of a proud culture...

but come on, man, the Philippines has produced dinuguan and balut. Anyone who eats either one of those deserves a severe ass beating.

[InternalDialogue]

17. The Filipino mother of one of my best high school friends

made great breakfasts for us when I'd crash at his place. Fried rice noodles and eggs -- she told me that's what she ate every day as a little girl. The smell of those rice noodles became a Pavlovian alarm clock for me after a while.

Plus, her accent was adorable. "Oh, you was shit-pace last night."

So there's at least something Filipinos eat that can satisfy an American teen's stomach.

Now, about their beverages...

:silly:

[philosophie_en_rose]

20. What so pfanny? I said go geet a seex pfack of soda pfor your seestar.

I love my mom. :loveya: She's adorable. She just does not hear the difference between Fs and Ps.

I don't know what you're talking about re: beverages. Calamansi Juice, Mango Nectar, and cola with real sugar. . . Yum!

:rofl:

[philosophie_en_rose]

19. Most Filipino food is delicious. Dinuguan and balut are exceptions.

Dinuguan is sort of like chitlings in the South. Filipinos began to eat it, because it used the parts of the pigs Europeans didn't use. And it's not hypothetically worse than English blood sausage or Scottish haggis. (although it certainly looks and smells worse, as it's basically hot dog ingredients boiled in blood). :puke:

With that said, there is plenty of Filipino food that is truly delicious. Lumpia (fried or steamed rice paper rolls filled with veggies and/or meat), pancit (noodles) of all kinds, sinigang (tangy soup), bibinka (sweet coconut/brown sugar mochi-like dessert), tilapia fish in various forms, adobo (meat in a vinegar/soy/peppercorn sauce), afritada (tomato & chicken stew), Halo Halo (like a frozen bubble tea over shaved ice), SkyFlakes crackers, and - of course - the best rice ever. I don't eat pig, but lechon (crispy pork roast) smells pretty good, too.

[SPKrazy]

6. Throw It Away!

dammit, just throw it away

[Ptah]

7. THE LIPS THAT TOUCH MENUDO SHALL NEVER TOUCH MINE

The Demon of tripe is about in the land,
His victims are falling on every hand,
The wise and the simple, the brave and the fair,
No station too high for his vengence to spare.
O women, the sorrow and pain is with you,
And so be the joy and the victory, too;
With this for your motto, and succor divine,
The lips that touch menudo shall never touch mine,

[MoseyWalker]

9. I am saving that and

have to say, that is GREAT!

oh, yeah

[Throd]

11. Come clean my grill...

We had Korean barbecued tripe and kimchi yesterday.

[trof]

12. Did you have to stay outside all day today?

Pee-Yew!
;-)

[Throd]

16. As a courtesy to others

I do my best to avoid human contact for 24 hours after my Korean barbecues.

[wildhorses]

21. is it worse than chittlins?

i just can't get that stuff down my throat:shrug: