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  • Sasquatch

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    Anyone have a recipe they're partial to for making barbacoa at home? Mexican grocer up the street makes some amazing stuff but I want to make some home made stuff to celebrate our 2 year anniversary moving here in a couple weeks and wouldn't mind trying a new recipe. I've tried my hand before using the basic tex-mex spices and citrus juice, but I don't know how authentic it is.
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    Mills

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    Start with a cow head and go from there, the best ones I have had are put in clay pot, buried in coals.
    Don’t forget homemade tortillas.

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    Axxe55

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    Anyone have a recipe they're partial to for making barbacoa at home? Mexican grocer up the street makes some amazing stuff but I want to make some home made stuff to celebrate our 2 year anniversary moving here in a couple weeks and wouldn't mind trying a new recipe. I've tried my hand before using the basic tex-mex spices and citrus juice, but I don't know how authentic it is.
    First time I tried goat meat, it had been cooked in the ground, buried on top of coals. Some of the best shredded goat meat tacos I have ever eaten in my life. It's a lot of work, but the results are worth it. I have have eaten a small wild hog that was cooked in the growund as well, and that was pretty damned good too.
     

    baboon

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    Out here by the lake!
    Buy it cooked who want to dig a hole in this heat
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    The last year I worked the renfest Hector just brought it and menudo everything Sunday morning and wouldn’t take money. It was alway a welcome sight to me Sunday mornings, wether I had been drinking or just unloading a truck at 1:00 am
     

    baboon

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    its always funny tellin' folks that barabcoa is cow face and beef tongue lmao.
    One can buy beef cheek meat at H‑E‑B .vs cooking a head. A guy with a little skill could in theory trim the cheeks & do the seasonings then slow cook it in a crock pot.

    Once while eating in a papusareia I watched the head chef slicing beef skirts with the grain and I trimmed figuring that was here version.

    I would still hit a taco joint and buy it by the pound with the green sauce, tortillas, onions, cilantro and limes
     

    A1Oni

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    One can buy beef cheek meat at H‑E‑B .vs cooking a head. A guy with a little skill could in theory trim the cheeks & do the seasonings then slow cook it in a crock pot.

    Once while eating in a papusareia I watched the head chef slicing beef skirts with the grain and I trimmed figuring that was here version.

    I would still hit a taco joint and buy it by the pound with the green sauce, tortillas, onions, cilantro and limes
    the local mexican bakery here has the best barbacoa tortas
     

    Texasgordo

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    Start with a cow head and go from there, the best ones I have had are put in clay pot, buried in coals.
    Don’t forget homemade tortillas.

    Moooo. Mooooo
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    Grandpa used to love that plus the eyeballs and brains. Unfortunately he had to eliminate it from his diet after a quadruple bypass heart surgery.
     

    Texasgordo

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    Anyone have a recipe they're partial to for making barbacoa at home? Mexican grocer up the street makes some amazing stuff but I want to make some home made stuff to celebrate our 2 year anniversary moving here in a couple weeks and wouldn't mind trying a new recipe. I've tried my hand before using the basic tex-mex spices and citrus juice, but I don't know how authentic it is.


    Back before the beer flu my parents volunteered to cook breakfast for the local Catholic church occasionally. Dad would cheat by smoking a brisket and rough chopping it and selling it as barbacoa. There's just not enough meat on the head to justify the amount of work.
     
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