Hey, hey everybody. Good to see you again.
Finally getting a little sunshine up in this motherfucker. It may even reach [GASP] the upper 70’s! That shit is WILD.
Rambling about weather aside, I have certainly used the cooler climes and taken full advantage of the use of my oven.
Shit will need to stop soon but as long as the cool grey marine layer lasts? I’mma use that shit.
To answer your inquiries regarding just what the fuck our featured dish is, once again I’ll let the WIKIS do the heavy lifting.
“Chicken Tinga (Spanish: tinga de pollo) is a Mexican dish made with shredded chicken in a sauce made from tomatoes, chipotle chilis in adobo, and sliced onions. It is often served on a tostada and accompanied by a layer of refried beans. It can be topped with avocado slices, crumbled cheese, Mexican crema, and salsa.”
“Although tinga is consumed throughout central and southern Mexico today, it is presumed to have a Pueblan origin. In recent years this cuisine has been expanding across the borders and can be found in most Mexican restaurants.”
There you are. Information dropped.
This dish will again allow us to use the now very familiar, bone-in skin-on chicken thighs. It will also have slow simmered black beans as a side dish. Yes, it was Southwest vegan soup week for work the week this was made and this dish will also allow us to continue to build on our now very extensive Mexican food recipe collection here on Sunday Gravy.
Ready to get after this shit?
A’ight!
While I did indeed throw my own ideas and tastes into this dish, it was greatly inspired by the good folks at FoodandWine.com.
Chicken Tinga!
1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, divided
2 1/2 pounds skin-on, bone-in chicken thighs
Kosher salt
Freshly ground black pepper
1/2 tablespoon of cumin
1 teaspoon of coriander
1 teaspoon of dried oregano
3 fire roasted tomatillos
1 fire roasted jalapeno
1 large onion, thinly sliced
3 large garlic cloves, minced
1 (15 oz) can diced tomatoes or tomato sauce
1 can of chipotles in adobo, coarsely chopped
1 cup chicken broth
Tortillas, cheese, etc. etc. for service.
Before the fiesta begins please take note: This motherfucker is spicy! Not blow your goddamn head off spicy but it has a deep, smoky, sultry finish. I dig this shit. If you want to dial it back, you may want to omit the jalapeno and cut the chipotles to half a can. I like my shit with some aggression but that’s just me and that’s how I roll.
We start the proceedings with the fire roasting portion of our show.
I started with the tomatillos first and well fuck, should have gone jalapeno first but check this photo out!
Full on portrait mode and shit. You just need a little char on these because they’re still raw and fresh, therefore they have a soft center and can be prone to a slight shall we say “bursting” possibility?
Meaning some serious splatter-fication shit could happen. Aw fuck it, it cleaned up easy enough.
Place your fire roasted things in a bowl and cover with foil or plastic wrap to allow them to steam for a few minutes.
Let’s get after the chicken next.
Pour some olive oil into a medium hot pan then working in batches start to sear the chicken. Season up well with some salt and pepper.
Five or so minutes later give the chicken a turn.
Sexy, sexy chicken thigh action!
Five minutes more and remove the chicken from the skillet for a bit. If you are working in batches repeat the process until all of the chicken has been browned.
FYI you can absolutely use boneless-skinless chicken breast for this and it will be great because there is so damn much flavor from the other ingredients. I still prefer the thighs but you do have options.
Slice the onion into thin rings and add it to the pan next. Yes, chicken juices and everything. Peel and chop the roasted jalapeno and get it on in there too.
Sweat these down for 5-7 minutes or so. Now about those tomatillos.
You will indeed need to peel these or at least try to peel these. Give them a rough chop after peeling then get them in the skillet next.
Continue to cook and stir.
Next up is a familiar player.
Yep, these are indeed becoming more and more of a regular around these parts and this particular dish is a goddamn showcase of why that is. Chop the chipotles up and they go in the pan next.
Get the minced garlic in next then add in all of your seasonings. Stir until fragrant as a motherfucker.
We finish the sauce by adding in the tomato sauce and the cup of chicken stock. Stir to combine.
Simmer over medium/low heat until the sauce reduces down by about half.
If you want a thicker sauce, reduce the amount of tomato sauce and chicken stock added by half. I’m cool with the thinner sauce because if you have the inkling to do so you could use the sauce as an enchilada sauce while using the chicken as the filling!
See? That’s some versatile shit right there.
Let the sauce cool a bit, pour it into a blender or a bowl if you have an immersion blender like my bad ass boomstick, then give it a blend
Pre-heat the oven to 350 degrees.
Take our previously browned chicken and get that shit into a baking vessel. Then pour that now blended sexy-ass sauce all over the chicken.
Shit. Mulligan time.
Let’s try using a goddamn baking vessel where the chicken won’t get lost while cooking in it..
That’s a bit better fit.
Bake in a 350 degree oven for 25-35 minutes.
Ready for this next step? Hope it doesn’t involve you being all hungry and shit because we’re going to cover this dish and refrigerate it overnight to strengthen the flavors.
You’ll survive. Order a pizza or some fucking thing and just wait it out until tomorrow. Worked for me.
Next day remove the chicken from the fridge and let it get to room temperature.
Time to remove the skin and debone the chicken.
Go through the chicken carefully because there are some bones, joints and cartilage shit in there that would NOT be tasty on a tortilla.
Now pull the chicken. Yep, just like “pulling” pork.
Then chop the bigger bits into smaller bits.
Now get that shit back into the sauce.
Yep, this one has potential to be messy. Probably shouldn’t be wearing white while making this.
Get all of this into a skillet and warm it up for service.
Notice how the sauce has tightened up after resting in the fridge overnight? It definitely intensified the flavors too.
Oh boy, this is gonna be great!
Serve along with some…. you guessed it. Black beans.
Get that onto a tortilla.
We’re using fajita size flour tortillas today but this stuff is fantastic on a corn tortilla with maybe a little diced red onion and some pico de gallo? Now we’re fucking talking over here.
Set your ass down and eat already!
Oh yeah. It does ALL of that shit. As mentioned before with the low smoky simmer and the richness of the sauce and the perfect chicken thighs. This thing? This fucking thing? It’s real damn good.
Remember that chicken tinga is basically a taco meat. Gussy up your taco to YOUR exact specifications. Make it your own. Feel like an enchilada? This shit works for that too. Wanna shove a big scoop of this into a burrito and use it that way? You goddamn animal! That’s fucking brilliant!
You know where this would really shine though? As a filling for tamales! Of fuck yes. You know how most tamales are all masa forward and the meat tends to take the back seat? This here motherfucker would climb over into the front seat, grab the fucking steering wheel and drive that bitch!
This shit is in charge. Add heat, take away heat, you get the picture. A nice change up from your basic ground beef taco filling. A real step up in flavor for sure.
There you go!
Think I’m gonna get my warm weather walking gear on and get out in the sun. Time to get some sunshine on my pale ass.
Have a great rest of your Sunday however you choose to enjoy it.
For sports you got a whole lot of baseball today and after that goddamn long ass All Star break that’s a damn good thing.
Be well everyone and I’ll see you again this time next week.
PEACE!
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Some of you may know this but back in the day (early 20 year old era) I drove a cab. TAJ did too for a bit but it got a little too weird for him. I did it for 5 years. Couple different cities.
I really should write some taxi stories.
Anyway, one of my favorite stories involved one of the many town drunks. Smart drunks call for a fucking cab.
Pinky was one of my regulars and motherfucker would drink himself blotto on a daily basis. One day I picked up Pinky at the Goldstone and he had me take him to a liquor store. He buys a pint bottle of vodka. Got it in a brown paper bag and shit. THEN, he had me drive to the courthouse where he stashed it in a bunch of bushes.
Why? You may ask?
Because the next day Pinky has a court appearance for a drunk in public charge and he wanted some fortification.
He died less than a year later but I always loved the story.
Yes the story is horrifying. That’s the point.
Every single one of my regular drunks died and I drove them home after one of their very last drunks. That shit sticks with you for life.
You should absolutely write Yeahright’s real life taxi cab confessionals.
This is a preview story. It ain’t shit compared to the rest. If I start dwelling on it my mind gets fucked up because I’ve seen some terrible, terrible shit.
Couldn’t even begin to say the worst story. It still gives me nightmares. Actually there are about 5 stories that fit that bill.
Why did I bring this shit out of storage again?
Thought I had that buried.
I was incorrect on my temperature prediction.
It’s not upper 70’s.
It’s peaked at 71.
Fucking hell the walk was gorgeous. No beautiful girls to dance with so I was dancing with myself.
Cue the Billy Idol.
It seems to have peaked at 88° here. Have certainly seen worse.
It’s 111⁰ here. It’s a cold snap, compared to yesterday.
Rebooked and Air Greenland is putting me up in the same hotel I was just at. Everything is pushed 24 hours so will have to work on my connecting flights but I can manage that. Here’s hoping the weather tomorrow is better!
Yay, no sleeping at the airport!
Next time you you don’t need to wear white, why you can wear green. Your my favorite and you can tell everyone that I said so.
Gotta love the GumbyTits
Awwww, I will tell everyone that YOU are my favorite! Your drawings always make me so happy!
From last year. I went out almost every night for two weeks to the same spot in San Pedro and shot camera tests.
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What’s the elapsed time?
probably about 40 minutes
That looks suspiciously like Cabrillo Beach.
That suspiciously is Cabrillo Beach
For as easy as it is to hate Djokovic, he does have a knack for being gracious in defeat.
I hate that about him
Huh. Fergus Murphy. I wonder where he hails from.
Boston, duh!
“FAWLT! THE BAWL WAS OUT!”
Happy Djokovic Schadenfreude Day everybody! Champagne all around!
I’m going to get a COVID booster shot to celebrate
“No, don’t! You’re playing right into the globalist Jews’ hands!” – RFK Jr.
Alcaraz!!!!
“I thought they closed that place down!” – Emmit Smith
Damn.
What a match.
I was going to type those exact words.
Came up a little short on time, did you?
I got a guy for that.
BY GAWD! THAT’S LOWRATIO’S MUSIC
https://youtu.be/BsrqKE1iqqo
Ha, every damn time I make something with a red sauce, I’m wearing white. You’d think I would learn, after 40 fucking years, but NOPE! I am untrainable. This looks delicious, but I would cut down a skosh on the spicy stuff because I am a wuss.
Of course you’re wearing white. Like a fucking LADY.
But not white after laboUr day
Of course not, how fucking gauche is that?
It *is* Wimbledon weekend, after all.
You can get all of the flavoUr without most of the heat by deseeding the jalapeno and chipotles.
I always try to, but seeds are tricksy fuckers!
usually able to get most of them by cutting them open and scraping with the flat of a knife, but yeah there’s always a few of the lil bastards that get through…
For fresh jalapenos, just run them under the faucet and rinse the seeds off. A little water won’t hurt them.
You can deseed them right after fire roasting too. Skin them, slit down the middle and scrape out the seeds.
Well double, perhaps triple fuck. No open hotel rooms anywhere in Ilulissat, although I have to think that’s going to change since no one will be arriving. Just some food vouchers and a promise that we’ll be emailed a new itinerary. This blows
Boo that fog!
Foo that bog!
So, you’re saying that you’re unemployed, in Greenland? I believe this is where Vizzini shows up to hire you.
I just read Cary Elwes’ memoir about making The Princess Bride. It was lovely.
We listened to the audiobook (with Cary doing the reading) on a long road trip. It’s truly delightful.
How are you at constructing an igloo?
Are you sleeping in the airport?
“What is she, royalty?” – Jim Tomsula
THIS DOKTOR ZYMM I CALL HER RUDY TABOOTIE BECAUSE SHE’LL GET EVERYTHING SORTED OUT ONCE SHE COMES BACK FROM “GREENLAND.”
What I’m saying is she’s totally in the ChalkZone right now.
Alcarez is starting to make a lot of unforced errors here.
Nice challenge there, though.
One of the frustrating things about modern tennis is the constant talk about injuries. The commentators are already making excuses for Djokovic that he might have been hurt earlier in a fall, even though he hasn’t called for a trainer or anything. Nadal, of course, is always hurt, and every match or tournament he’s in that’s the constant discussion.
I don’t doubt that the tour is really hard on bodies, and that every player is always dealing with at least some nagging injury, but… well, that’s kind of the point, nobody’s ever 100%, so let’s stop acting like that’s something unusual unless there’s a clear sign of an injury seriously hampering play.
Yeah this just in… professional athletes preform hard and pull muscles, tendons and ligaments.
It is and has always been about having enough in the tank after the long haul.
Yeah, and it’s just kind of boring to talk about. This wasn’t giving any insight into how the match was going and why, and of course it’s looking even sillier now that Djokovic is leading in the fourth set. I guess it was a miraculous recovery from that phantom injury. (And again, this is just something Fowler and the Macs came up with — Djokovic hasn’t been limping around or showing distress.)
Hm, wondering if I should be concerned that the planes coming in on the 45 minute flight from Kangerlussaq are now over 20 minutes late in arriving and also the fog is thickening up again
Nah. Nothing bad ever happens in the polar regions because of bad weather.
Ah shit, it turned around
And my flight is canceled. Well fuck.
Bummer. What are your options?
Waiting in line to find out. Air Greenland is putting everyone up in hotels since no one is leaving today. I hope I’ll be able to get out tomorrow or I’m gonna have to shuffle all my onward flights.
Fingers crossed for you.
THIS GAME I CALL IT ANDY REID THE MORNING AFTER AN ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT CHEESE BUFFET, BECAUSE THEY JUST CAN’T GET PAST DEUCE.
I made Yeahright’s gochujang ribs last night and (continue to) recommend.
Gochujang is magic sauce, no idea how sriracha got all the love
It’s because people don’t cook and they just want something to put on an egg roll. Buncha savages.
Someone jammed gum in all the locks again?
I can’t wait to make those again once the season starts and experimentation time is over.
Those fuckers are delicious.
That looks tasty! I should have bought some snacks for waiting at the airport. It’s foggy and everything is delayed or cancelled plus the little snack bar is closed since it’s Sunday. Will I get stuck in Greenland? Signs point to MAYBE
Plane is on the way from Kangerlussaq and looks like conditions are holding for the next couple hours so good chance I make it back to Kangerlussaq today in plenty of time for my Copenhagen flight tomorrow! Total waste of a window seat though, lol
THIS GUY HORATIO CORNBLOWER I CALL HIM TOM BRADY AFTER BRIDGET MOYNAHAN TOLD HIM SHE WAS PREGNANT BECAUSE HE IS EXPECTED TO SPEND THE DAY BAILING.
This is excellent. So far no bailing, but it’s early yet and the sump pump is about to enter the fray.
Tropical downpours going on right now. The tornado warning is a nice touch as well.
From the looks of it, I need to get into the habit of letting more dishes set overnight. I rarely do that so I’m gonna get on that new kick.
This looks absolutely rightious man.
I think the key is to make enough that you can’t finish it all same day
Coach Reid is so flabbergasted that he just fainted.
I make “Chasen’s Chili” (from the famed former L.A. restaurant) and the recipe’s last step specifically calls for refrigerating it overnight and then reheating/serving it the next day. Dave Chasen’s instructions say this is the most important part.
Just like the Daube that we just made. Your patience will be rewarded.
Yes, just like this!