Mexican Feast with pics! (56K warning)

Hey everyone! I've been lurking around the forum for a bit over a year now, and decided it was time I registered! So this is my first post!

My family got together this past Monday and had a Mexican feast with some help of a friend of the family (my brother-in-law's Mom's boyfriend). We purchased the ingredients at our local Mexican grocery store in the afternoon and cooked it all up in the evening.

Shrimp and Chorizo w/ Cactus and Tomato

I don't have exact measurments for the Shrimp & Chorizo, but you could probably eyeball it easily enough. We used:

Chorizo
Shrimp
Nopales(cactus)(thin slices)
Tomatoes (diced)
Onion (diced)
Jalapenos (minced) (add more or less to taste)
Garlic
Cumin

Saute the onion a bit until it's clear, then stir fry the chorizo with the garlic and cumin. When that's cooked add in your tomatoes and jalapenos. Add the shrimp and nopales last, since they cook quickly.

















BBQ Pork Short Ribs and Carne Asada













Avacado Ensalada (salad)









Salsa

1/2 diced onion
cilantro
juice from 1 lemon
garlic
4 cans of tomatillos
1 small can of chipotle in adobo sauce

Combine it all and blend to your desired consistency. It's best (and easiest) if you have an immersion blender (the white thing in the first two pics of the salsa)









Mexican Rice





warming the tortillas:





Finished!







Enjoy! We had a lot of fun cooking and eating the meal. Let me know if you'd like the ingredients to anything else or have any other questions.

Perhaps the best, and definitely most photogenic, maiden post in LTH history!

Welcome aboard!

Viva Mexico!

Bster

Welcome to LTH!

What a lovely beginning and quite a lovely meal you had.

Do you care to comment on the marinade and any cooks for cooking the pork ribs? What differences, if any, would apply to beef ribs?

If I am asking more questions than you may be able to answer. Don't sweat it, somebody else here will comment.

Regards,

Cathy2 wrote:Welcome to LTH!

What a lovely beginning and quite a lovely meal you had.

Do you care to comment on the marinade and any cooks for cooking the pork ribs? What differences, if any, would apply to beef ribs?

If I am asking more questions than you may be able to answer. Don't sweat it, somebody else here will comment.

Regards,

Thank you! (and also Bster )

Unfortunately, I forgot to ask what he was marinating the ribs in. They had already started in with a bit of the preparation and cooking while I was still at work. I'll have to ask my brother, who might know, as he was there before me.

Wow, welcome! Heck of a first post. My mouth waters.

Yes, welcome to LTH and thanks for the great post!

Do you live in Detroit? Or were those "imported" tortillas?

Until Amata's sharp eye caught the possibility that you weren't local, I was going to suggest that with food like that, you should come to the picnic next week! Looks delicious!

You found me out!

My brother lives in Chicago (which is how I discovered the forum), and I live near Detroit. I'm very familiar with Chicago though, as I went to school at Columbia and the Art Institute for about 5 years.

Not to worry - we love out-of-towners! Just makes it a bit harder to invite oneself to dinner

Very, very persuasive first post: you had us all wanting to be there with you, at the table of course! Nicely done.

Next time you're in KC, give me or Aaron a buzz, and we'll have a bite or two. And talk eats. :^)

Geo