cochinita pibil

Thanks to Plata-O-Plomo and DerHusker, I needed to follow suit with some Cochinita Pibil. Mind you, I couldn't get banana leaves, nor could I get achiote seeds / powder. Strange. Last night, I broke out a smallish pork butt, whipped up the marinade, and let it rest overnight. I got no...

I had some Cochinita Pibil leftovers thawed out so I tried something different by using it on a pizza. I tried to use ingredients that the people of the Yucatan use a lot of. Corn, black bean, the Cochinita, cilantro, pickled red onion, and soft boiled eggs. This morning I made up some pizza...

I saw this made by Al Czervik (Mongo) and have wanted to make them ever since. Here’s a link to his cook thread: http://www.bbq-brethren.com/forum/showthread.php?t=178795 Note: For some reason the pictures are no longer visible so you’ll have to go by memory. (For those of you who remember...

It’s been a while since I made some of this awesome pork dish and decided to remedy that. Here are most of the ingredients for the marinade and the pickled red onion. I had also dung out a 8.85 lb. pork shoulder from the freezer that I had purchased on sale for $0.99 a lb. :whoo...

Remember this cook? Well I had quite a few leftovers from it so I thawed a package out to make some enchiladas. I started out by making up a rojo sauce. Here are most of the ingredients: Stemmed and seeded the Guajillo chili’s and then place in 3 cups of water to...

I got the inspiration for this from a friend, whose handle is jrow, on another site. I had just seen a YouTube video on Yucatan cooking where they buried a pig in the ground which was called Cochinita Pibil. Then my friend jrow just happened to make some a few days later. That did it for me and...