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Old 04-14-2009, 01:27 PM   #56 (permalink)
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Default Re: Weird Food - Care to share?

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Originally Posted by lorax View Post
Bacalao!! I totally forgot all of the weird salt-cod preparations we do down here. We just got through the Fanesca season. Fanesca, for the uninitiated, is a very thick soup made of liquified milk-reconstituted Bacalao, squash, pumpkin, and something like 10 grains (peas, 3 kinds of bean, corn, lentils, rice, barley, quinoa, etc etc etc.), with garlic and onion and achiote and butter and cream. It's served with bits of deep-fried Bacalao that has been reconstituted in beer, and slices of fried banana. Kind of like a big, steamy yellow bowl of coronary malfunction. I love it.
lorax, is Ecuador a Portuguese speaking country? The guy who makes me the blood sausage also makes this many ways and is Portugese. (as opposed to Bacala which is popular in Jersey) I'm going to have to see if I can duplicate these recipes but doubt I can find an "achiote". I'll have to look it up.....
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