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Green chile & lamb stew
This recipe uses Lamb because of the up coming religious occasion but you
can use mutton, goat, pork or beef equally as well , 2 medium white onions, chopped rinsed under cold water 4 garlic cloves, minced 3 tablespoons vegetable oil 2 to 2 1/2 pounds boneless Lamb shoulder or other quality cut, trimmed and cut into 1-inch pieces 1 cup AP flour with salt and pepper to coat the meat 2 pounds roasted New Mexican or Anaheim green chilies, chopped 1 pounds boiling potatoes peeled and cut into 1-inch pieces 5 cups water salt and pepper to taste In a large heavy kettle, sauté the onions and 1/2 of the minced garlic in the oil over moderate heat, stirring, until the onions are softened, remove this mixture from the heat, coat the lamb in flour , shake off the excess and fry the meat in in the oil in batches until caramelized. Deglaze the kettle with a bit of water and return the sautéed onion and garlic as well as the meat back to the kettle. Add the chilies, the water to the kettle and season with the salt. Simmer the mixture, uncovered, adding more water if necessary to keep the lamb barely covered, for 1 1/2 hours. Stir in the potatoes making sure they are covered by the cooking liquid, and simmer the mixture for another 30 minutes, or until the pork and the potatoes are tender, stirring occasionally to ensure they do not burn on the bottom, Stir in the remaining minced garlic, taste and re-season if necessary. Simmer the stew for another 5 minutes or so to blend in the last addition of garlic. As we have discussed before to add a corn flavor, you can work in a beurre manie made from Masa Harina and lard or butter in equal amounts to thicken the sauce ( a tablespoon or two of each will usually suffice). |
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What is the significance of lamb (in the religious sense)? |
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"chipotle" > wrote in message ps.com... > > What is the significance of lamb (in the religious sense)? Chipotle, In many of the Christian Religions lamb is traditionally served on Easter as a symbol of Jesus, the Lamb of God. We have just entered Lent, the period leading up to Easter. So I am going to be posting some Lenten as well as Lamb dishes. I am not a very religious person but I did promise my wife less red meat and this is a good chance to try some out. Mexican foods are very well suited to No Red Meat as well as meatless dishes. |
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Thank you. You have brought a question from the back of my mind to t
he front. I have not researched it and must do that before I shoot my mouth off too much, but still I have had this question buried - we have so much information about Christmas (a major hoiiday, of course) but so little about Easter, yet Mexico is decidedly a Catholic country. I wondered if Lenten dishes were more important and quite easy in bean-loving Mexico. And the proliferation of recipes for pork tell us all we need to know about Mexico's adoption of the little grunter. That one's easy, as they take no space and are happy to eat anything and grow fat. A good choice in a country that has many poor people. Going to see what I can find about Easter now. I'm very curious about that. |
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Okay - I take it back, there's plenty there.
I found a few sites, but, hmmm, one says it's a festive time, another calls it solemn. The web can be unreliable, that's for sure. Well well, spring is always joyous, no? And breaking a Lenten fast is a happy moment. Easter is really an old pagan custom for obvious reasons. |
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On Feb 25, 5:31�am, "chipotle" > wrote:
> Okay - I take it back, there's plenty there. > I found a few sites, but, hmmm, one says it's a festive time, another > calls it solemn. *The web can be unreliable, that's for sure. > When you google for "Easter" in Mexico, also include "costumbre" in your search terms and see what you get in the way of pagan customs associated with Christian holidays. So far as Mexico and the rest of Latin America is concerned, the natives had to accept Roman Catholicism as it was forced upon them. They continued to follow their own, older religions, often adopting the cult figures of the saints as somehow symbolic of their own gods and godesses. They look at a statue of the Virgin and they see their own goddess instead. They particularly love dark-skinned depictions of Mary. So, whenever you research the fiestas associated with Catholicism, you need to be aware of "costumbre" lurking in the shadows as the peasants pay lip service to the church. Look up Santeria, for example, and you will find African voodoo rituals and animal sacrifice blended with the Catholic ideas. > Well well, spring is always joyous, no? *And breaking a Lenten fast is > a happy moment. *Easter is really an old pagan custom for obvious > reasons. Different pagans on different continents. Easter arose out of earth worship in Babylonia or Sumeria. Look up Astoreth and Ishtar. When you read the Christian Bible, or the Hebrew Tanakh you'll see where God told Moses to destroy the altars and groves of earth worship when the Israelites entered Canaan. Canaan was God's reward to the Israelites for being his chosen people and their mission (if they chose to accept it) was to kill or enslave all the supposedly evil Canaanites. That's in Exodus. The earth worshippers held their fertility rituals in groves of trees in the Middle East. All the males made an offering and the priestesses serviced every male they could handle. The rest of the male earth worshippers worshipped with each other, and, even if that didn't directly result in impregnation of a female at the moment, it raised their sexual energy to go out and earn enough money to buy a wife. You may remember that God destroyed the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah because of their "wicked" practices, but Lot's wife looked back and turned into a pillar of salt somewhere around the Dead Sea. Even though the Israelite prophets railed against earth worship and abominations such as sodomy, there were still Sodomites living in Canaan 900 years later in the time of King Solomon, and Solomon may have even participated in earth worship rituals himself. And that was centuries after the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. The Israelites didn't get their temple cleansed of all alien rituals and artifacts until the reign of a later king. And then the Assyrians came in and looted the temple and kidnapped most of the Israelites and hauled them away, never to be seen again. The Ten Lost Tribes of Israel probably wound up in Anatolia or the Caucasus mountains. Earth worship continued up until the Roman Catholic priests almost wiped out the tradition in Europe a thousand years ago. Druids gathered their people in sacred groves of oak trees. The Catholic priests knew that they weren't powerful enough to stop pagan worship a thousand years ago, but, by 1300 AD, the Catholic church was sufficiently strong to outlaw the practices. But there are still modern neo-pagans who try to resurrect the old ways. Like the pagan ritual of dancing around a May pole is at least 4000 years old. There are commandments in Exodus against worshipping around poles or columns or worshipping at any raised altar where the faithful have to climp steps to make their offerings. A religious sect whose power rivalled that of the Levites was doing strange things at raised altars on the wrong mountain, and that had to be outlawed without actually defining what it was that they were doing that was so wrong. The writers of the scriptures were trying to forbid a lot of rituals practiced by other tribes or sects of their own beliefs which eventually became known as "Judaism", without actually getting very technical about what they were condemning. The Egyptians worshipped on raised altars and around monolithic pylons which we know as obelisks today. The Egyptians also practiced earth worship and held fertility rituals in the spring every year. The Hebrews felt culturally and racially threatened by the Egyptians' fertility rituals, so they cursed the Egyptians and painted the lintels of their doorways with lambs' blood and forbade the young people from going outside, in order to preserve the DNA of their tribes. Israel (the Angel of Death) supposedly killed all the first born of the Egyptians, and that was the first Passover, since the angel passed over the Hebrews. Killing the first born male child of a family was an awful thing to do, under Levirite law. It screwed up inheritances something terrible. If the first born son of a Hebrew leader died, power and control would pass to somebody else's son. And property rights might also go to the wrong person, in the Hebrew mind. That's why it was the duty of every good Hebrew to "go into" his brother's widow and provide a male heir to keep his brother's name going and ensure his property and tribal leadership rights going. The Old Testament goes into great detail about who begat whom so the lines of nobility would continue and, when the wrong person wound up with somebody else's "birthright" the Hebrew prophets cursed entire tribes for centuries afterwards. After pharoah let the Israelites go (it's uncertain whether they were really slaves or if they were laborers or mercenaries that wanted to break their contract), they wandered in the Sinai desert for 40 years and came into contact with other tribes whose religious practices included earth worship. The Israelites didn't want to have their tribe intermarry with the gentiles, so Moses re-instituted the ritual of Passover for a second time, about 40 years after the first Passover. You may read articles where modern day Jews say that the significance of Passover is that nobody should oppress a stranger, because the Hebrews were once strangers in Egypt. The actual significance of the Passover is cultural separation, a religious and racial apartheid that has continued for 4000 years. At least in Torah tradition... If you read about Noah, and what happened after the flood, you will read about his sons, who were supposedly thefathers of various nations. Like Ham was supposedly the father of all African people. And there is the story of Ham's son Canaan, who walked into Noah's tent one day and saw Noah drunk and naked. Noah cursed Canaan, who seems to have been a dark-skinned person, and all of his descendants to be slaves of the lighter-skinned Hebrews. |
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Phew, that's a lot to digest. Thank you for taking the time to write
so much. As for me, I will also take time so I digest properly. Look at that word 'digest.' -LOL We can't keep away from food and eating words. |
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