Stinky et all

Know of anywhere around Toowong I can grab some ? Don't think my local fruit shop has them.

Danke Schon

heh, 10 minute cooking school: Puerco Pibil?

Looks damn tasty, flatmates been tempted to make that after seeing it on youtube.

Exactly

Don't bother with the banana leaves, doesn't really affect the taste, cover it with foil instead.

Annato paste can be bought from Pennisi foods @ 17 balaclava st 'gabba. they have a reasonable selection of mexican stuff including chipotle in adobo, and other yummy treats.

here's my attempt using a friend's recipe :-

A very tasty mexican dish of shredded pork. This dish was featured in 'Once Upon a Time in Mexico' where Johnny Depp's character would order it at every restaurant he ate, if it tasted too good, he would kill the chef. I got this recipe from a friend, There's a recipe of it as cooked by Director Roberto Rodreiguez that can be found on youtube.

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• 2 tsp. Cumin


• 2 tbsp coriander


• 2 tbsp oregano


• 2 tblsp Thyme


• 2 tblsp cocoa


• 1 tblsp Annato Paste ( optional, hard to find, but gives it great colour ).


• 1 tbsp Black Pepper


• 1 tbsp salt


• 100mls White Vinegar


• 2 chili Peppers


• 8 cloves Garlic


• 1 ltr Orange Juice


• A splash of Tequila


• 2kg. boneless Pork shoulder

Cut pork into 2 inch chunks and mix with remainder of ingredients

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Place into a covered oven dish and cook on 160 centigrade for 3 – 4 hours

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When done it should just fall apart with a stir

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Pfft got real achiote seeds

I WANT BANANA LEAVES DAMNIT

Might just drive down to byron and get some myself

i'm going to order this from a resteraunt like a real man

Pfft got real achiote seeds

Where from ???

Deli under my old mans office at paddington got them for me from herbies

From wikipedia:

Annatto has been linked with many cases of food-related allergies, and is the only natural food coloring known to cause as many or more reactions than artificial food coloring.

lol

I got about 6 banana trees out the back that you could select from and hand pick some clippings.

Pennisi is a secret damnit, shhhh!

I've never seen Once Upon a Time in Mexico, why does he kill the chef for making awesome food?

I asked Google and I lol'd at the 6th result:

Lulz

Made it last night, turned out quite well though I don't have pics on me - I will upload some later.

Ended up having to use Pork leg rather than shoulder, so it was alot drier than it should have been and didn't shred quite so well. Can definitely see how it would be awesomely tender with the right cut of meat. My fruit guy forgot my banana leaves so I ended up using alfoil too :(

is there anything you can substitute for the annatto seeds? I've read about using paprika + tumeric as a replacment... not sure who well that'd work.

I'll probably end up cooking this for people who'd probably break out in hives or some s*** due to the annatto seed. and they'll break out... then swell up... then die... in my place... which is not good at all.

nah fish its simple.. just do what johnny depp did.. in-case of dead people, make pies.

I haven't seen anything about substitutions but I really don't think it would be hard.

BTW make sure your coffee grinder works (mines f***ed) cos mortar and pestling that s*** is not cool

So nobody can answer my question about shooting the chef? :(

"Because the tequila drove him loco"

Dunno maybe it was too good

Edit: Turns out I was close - From Wikipedia for Cochinita pibil

In the movie Once Upon a Time in Mexico, puerco pibil is a favorite dish of the main character, Agent Sands, and the character's obsession with the dish is the feature of several scenes. He feels so strongly about the food that he murders any cook who makes it too well (in order to "maintain balance" in the country). A recipe for puerco pibil appears as a bonus feature on the DVD edition of the film. The director, Robert Rodriguez, provides a recipe and instruction on how to cook the dish.

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Here's some pics from my effort last night

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http://josh.net.au/puerco/2.jpg

Did you use proper chilli's?

habanero - had a few left over from some dude at work that grows them