Oaxacan cuisine: the new Southwestern?

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Mole Coloradito
Sopa Azteca
???

― Remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 4 November 2004 06:21 (twenty years ago)

I've only had it once, years ago, and it was in an airport so I question it's authenticity, BUT it's so much fun saying the name!

― oops (Oops), Friday, 5 November 2004 00:14 (twenty years ago)

Yeah... I just bought a book of Oaxacan cooking. I made a tortilla and squash soup for dinner yesterday... was delic.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Friday, 5 November 2004 01:14 (twenty years ago)

Dark Mole Oaxaqueno is the best!

― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 6 November 2004 05:30 (twenty years ago)

I spent many a fine afternoon at El Oaxaqueno in New Brunswick, NJ -- Robert Sietsema of The Village Voice came out to review this once, claiming that, at least at the time, there was no Oaxacan in NYC. Hard to believe, isn't it?

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 06:29 (twenty years ago)

Yeah... Orbit, have you been to the little Oaxequeno place on 6th in Koreatown?

― Remy (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 07:58 (twenty years ago)

Do you mean Guelazetzga?

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 11 November 2004 00:39 (twenty years ago)

yes!

― Remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 11 November 2004 02:19 (twenty years ago)

Great minds eat alike ;-)
Soot Bull Jeep is on 6th also, I think, or nearby (killer Korean BBQ)

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 11 November 2004 03:52 (twenty years ago)

so this is just like mexican, yeah? like how we have goan/sri lankan (etc) curry houses?

how do you pronounce it btw?

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Thursday, 11 November 2004 14:17 (twenty years ago)

wah-shakan I think

Strangely I was reading up about it about two weeks ago - interesting soups (the prospect of torilla soup intrigues me)

― Porkpie (porkpie), Thursday, 11 November 2004 17:15 (twenty years ago)

Not "wah-hakan"?

Tortilla soup is very good. But it's something I think of as Mexican, rather than specifically Oaxacan, but I don't know from this Oaxacan beast, so.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 11 November 2004 19:14 (twenty years ago)

It's wah-HAW-ken. Oaxaca is a state of Mexico that is down by Guatemala, so different in the types of spices and ingredients from the typical US Mexican-style food (which is mostly Sonoran).

― Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 11 November 2004 20:36 (twenty years ago)

That's how I was pronouncing it. ;-)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 11 November 2004 23:13 (twenty years ago)

sorry I don'y know where that sh came in, I know it was wrong.

― Porkpie (porkpie), Friday, 12 November 2004 00:00 (twenty years ago)

This is what I made for dinner: I had 9 people over, and the menu sounds really weird but it actually went quite well together:

Roasted pumpkin seeds with grated pastillo peppers and cashews
Nime chow & dipping sauce
Baked stuffed pork loin with mole coloradito
Oaxacan roasted root vegetables w/ cactus florettes
Apple cake
Ginger-flavored turkish delights (my own invention!)

― Remy (x Jeremy), Friday, 12 November 2004 07:14 (twenty years ago)

You made turkish delights?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 12 November 2004 07:32 (twenty years ago)

yup. they're surprisingly easy.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Friday, 12 November 2004 15:54 (twenty years ago)

And did this party end with all 9 guests offering to have your babies?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 12 November 2004 20:12 (twenty years ago)

Did you roast the cashews and peppers with the pumkin seeds?

― Josie, Friday, 12 November 2004 23:41 (twenty years ago)

yesh!

― Remy (x Jeremy), Saturday, 13 November 2004 07:18 (twenty years ago)

(nobody offered me their baby, but I got drunk with my professor afterward)

― Remy (x Jeremy), Saturday, 13 November 2004 07:18 (twenty years ago)

Aw Remy, I want to come over for dinner. That sounds wonderful!

― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 13 November 2004 22:32 (twenty years ago)

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