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Darn it feels good to be a burger 
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Darn it feels good to be a burger
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Was planning on smoking/braising a cow tongue this weekend.
Did beef cheeks last weekend, which turned out perfect and made the best leftover stock I've made so far.
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You're in Texass, yeah? Have you ever been to Vera's in Brownsville?
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I haven't been that far south yet, but will keep it in mind if I'm ever planning on borderhopping for pharmaceuticals
I took photos of the beef cheeks but they're hardly photogenic. They were so good for how cheap they were ($8 for 2lb) - and they were just smoked with a simple rub and braised in red wine and store beef stock.
(hen of the woods mushrooms and potato fluids)
(the weird looking chunky dish, six hour sloppa)
I served them over el cheapo instant mashed potatoes beefed up with 1/2 cream 1/2 water and green onions, sautéed hen of the woods mushrooms, and topped with too-chunky-duxelle-cream sauce surrounded by the the smoky braising stock. Going to blend the mushrooms next time I make it in this way so it doesn't look like barf.
Gonna try braising them with a chipotle sauce to make them more like barbacoa for the next beef cheek iteration.
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That looks really good.
You have to go to Vera's while they're still around. It's just a mom and pop cabeza joint, but the draw is that they've been open since the 50s so they're grandfathered into the current health code and are the only brick and mortar business left in the state that can cook whole cow heads in a dirt pit.
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I think I saw them mentioned in a documentary or tv show a few months back, now that you mention that.
May have to check them out. I've had whole pig head cooked underground wrapped in banana leaves before, but not cow.
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They've started getting media attention the last few years, which is good because it will hopefully keep them profitable long enough for me to go back. I made the drive down there from California in like 2019 to see Laguna Atascosa/South Padre and eat at Vera's and it was a 10/10 road trip.
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Looks fricking amazing, will try
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