NATIVE AMERICAN - INDIGENOUS COOKING MEALS

Subject: NATIVE AMERICAN - INDIGENOUS COOKING MEALS Thu Oct 24, 2013 11:18 am

10/24/2013

                       I read this morning a great article on Native American Indigenous cooking,
                 how it all started and how many native americans are going back to their roots
                 for food and health , here's the article, I have to copy the recipes..
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/10/24/eating-indigenouslychangesdietsandlivesofnativeamericans.html

                                                     Cheers..Joe.. Very Happy

Thanks, Joe, this is a HUGE help! Once again, the synchronicities abound!!

Annie

10/24/2013

                      Ann..

                             I like Al Jazeera on line because I find many articles I don't see on CNN or
         anywhere else, I found the recipe site....Here it is:

                                                         http://www.aihd.ku.edu/

                                                Cheers..Joe.. Very Happy

Bookmarked!

Just remember to consider any site's agenda.

10/24/2013
                                       This site has so many great recipes from all regions:

                                                                 http://www.aihd.ku.edu/

                                      Click on recipes, I have to try these......Cheers..Joe.. Very Happy

10/24/2013

                     I have to see who sells Venison and Buffalo meat ?
                    I also have to see who sells Cactus Pads ?

                                          Cheers..Joe.. Very Happy

Subject: Re: NATIVE AMERICAN - INDIGENOUS COOKING MEALS Thu Oct 24, 2013 1:00 pm

Cactus pads are often called nopalitas, Joe, and the meats can be found at places like Whole Fods. Didn't you once say that you had a grocery store that focused on organic foods? Try there.

Subject: Re: NATIVE AMERICAN - INDIGENOUS COOKING MEALS Thu Oct 24, 2013 1:53 pm

10/24/2013

                       Yes, they have Whole Foods , Trader Joe's and Sunflower Mkt.
                       I know have seen these products in one of these stores.....

                                                          Cheers.........Joe... Very Happy

Subject: Re: NATIVE AMERICAN - INDIGENOUS COOKING MEALS Thu Oct 24, 2013 4:33 pm

Joe, I thought you might get a kick out of this scene from Redstone's Valley. The scene takes place in 2002, so a few of the "indigenous" foods have been adapted for modern times. Stone is a New York cop who has recently resettled in the Texas hills as a small-town deputy sheriff. Old Dan is a mysterious, half-Comanche hermit who is teaching Stone how to do his job in the rural setting of the Hill Country.

Quote :: It came as something of a surprise to Stone, one afternoon, that he had, somewhere along the way, become perfectly comfortable sitting on the back of a horse.
He had been out riding with Dan, getting to know more about the hills of this place he was starting to call home. They were riding in a remote area to the northeast of Sandy Creek, near the end of the La Roca County line, in a secluded pocket of land that was still as wild as it must have been when the first settlers had arrived, almost two hundred years earlier, and he was thinking about how necessary this business of riding and tracking was to his new job, here in this part of the world where Nature was still a force to be reckoned with. They were climbing toward the top of a high ridge. There was no trail, and the rocks and boulders had huge clumps of prickly pear cactus growing between them. As they approached the top, Stone looked back. He could see a narrow dirt road winding below them, the only sign that they were anywhere close to civilization, and yet, he knew that they weren’t more than five or six miles from town. Another few yards and they reached the top, and turned around to look southwest. He could easily see Granite Hill, and as he looked even farther into the distance, an amazing view of the whole north face of The Rock.
“Do you ever get used to it?”
“The impact? I haven’t, and I’ve been looking at it for more years than I like to think about.”
Stone could not help but wonder about Daniel’s age. The man’s white hair and beard and the deep lines around his eyes said one thing; his strength and the firm leanness of his body said another, but he decided it was none of his business, so he kept silent.
“You hungry? Dan asked.
“I’m okay.”
“You sure? I’m pretty damned hungry, myself.”
“You got something to eat? I could eat.”
“Why don’t we ride back down toward the creek and I’ll see what I’ve got.”
Stone had come to know Dan well enough to know that whatever the man packed in his saddlebags was generally a lot more than hardtack and jerky. He was more than willing to find out what it might be, this trip.
They found a spot near the northernmost point of the creek and started a fire. Dan moved a couple of flat rocks close to the flames, and headed for a patch of prickly pear, pulled an old, but clearly sharp knife and cut off a few of the smaller of the spiny, thick leaves that looked like a cross between porcupines and ping-pong paddles. When he reached into his bags again and brought out a pair of needle-nose pliers, he most definitely had Stone’s attention. Dan used them to pull out the spines, then he washed the paddles and placed them on the hot stones. While the paddles sizzled, he brought out a package of corn tortillas, a small block of crumbly cojito – a Mexican version of feta cheese - and some sticks of dried sausage.
Stone knew what they were. “Chorizo,” he said, voicing a high degree of pleasure.

“Spanish chorizo,” Dan nodded. Mexican chorizo was a soft, uncooked sausage link that looked a bit like Italian sausage, but with a distinctively different seasoning. Spanish chorizo was closer to a hard salami or pepperoni, but, again, with its own distinctive taste. Dan cut it into paper thin slices. He tossed some of tortillas onto the other stones, and sprinkled them with the slices of sausage and crumbly cheese. He turned the cactus paddles and let them brown on their other side before he sliced them into thin strips. In the meantime, Stone took their canteens over to the creek and filled them with fresh, cool water. They sat in the shade, then, munching away on their rolled cactus and chorizo tacos, not saying much of anything, just getting lost in the pleasure of the early afternoon.

Subject: Re: NATIVE AMERICAN - INDIGENOUS COOKING MEALS Thu Oct 24, 2013 5:02 pm

10/24/2013

                        Ann..

                               In reading this I have to leave big time, It made me "HUNGRY !"

                                                           Cheers.......Joe.. Very Happy

Subject: Re: NATIVE AMERICAN - INDIGENOUS COOKING MEALS Thu Oct 24, 2013 8:10 pm

10/25/2013

                       Here's a great Crock Pot Recipe Native American.



                    http://www.aihd.ku.edu/recipes/crock_pot_roast.html

                                             Cheers..Joe.. NATIVE AMERICAN - INDIGENOUS COOKING MEALS 925501

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