Tacos: Manitas de Cerdo (Pigs Trotters), De Tuétano (Bone Marrow), and De Camarone (Shrimp)

Ozzie_Isaac · July 6

Made up some fun tacos this weekend.

Pig Trotter Tacos - blanch pigs feet, then cover in liquid and cook with onions and carrots for ~5hrs. De-meat the trotters, toss the bones (there are a ton of bones in pigs feet/ankles), then roll all the meat,collagen,fat, etc in cellophane and chill. When ready to make the tacos slice thin and fry them up (we chose to fry them in pig lard). Dressed them simply with onions, green onions, garlic, fermented jalapenos, and habanero.

Made Shrimp tacos - simple green lightning shrimp minus the cilantro and add habanero. The shrimp were bought out of the back of a truck in the Carniceria parking lot around 7pm.

Also made bone marrow tacos, dressed similar to shrimp but did add in some fried figs to offset the richness.

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Not many photos, weekend was more about cooking fun new things and forgot good photos:)

johnmitchell · July 6

Amazing cook and post. You are certainly enjoying life👍

kl8ton · July 6

Awesome! I think we're required to tag @The Cen-Tex Smoker anytime a parking lot meat deal goes down.

shtgunal3 · July 6

paqman · July 6

shtgunal3 said:

I was going to say the same 🤣😂

Botch · July 6

Very unique!
Dad always liked to nibble on pickled pig's feet, came in a jar. Don't know that I've ever seen them lately (I could take to leave 'em).

EDIT: Yes they do, Amazon had bunches of them.

lkapigian · July 6

Trotters for the Win !

lousubcap · July 6

As mentioned above, living the great life. Great cook and post. All looks delicious. Way to bring new cooking adventures to the forum.

Legume · July 6

That trotter prep certainly evokes SmokingAl

GrateEggspectations · July 6

Loving these great cooks, Ozzie. Definitely off the beaten path for me.

ColbyLang · July 6

Shrimp from a parking lot in Arizona. I believe you are mighty far from the ocean

caliking · July 6

Farkin’ fabulous! WFO casually enters the chat

Ozzie_Isaac · July 7

Was a lot of fun for sure - definitely trying things outside my wheelhouse, but learning a lot too! Local carniceria said they could order pig heads. So might be trying that soon.

Tacos: Manitas de Cerdo (Pigs Trotters), De Tuétano (Bone Marrow), and De Camarone (Shrimp)

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