On a recent Sunday morning visit to my parents in West Liberty, my mother, an immigrant from northern Mexico, asked me if I wanted some menudo. I was confused at her question, as there was no tell-tale evidence that she had been cooking the soup for the last eight or so hours. Absent were the […]
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Recipe: Mexican mother-approved menudo
Like a lot of immigrant moms, mine runs fast and loose with ingredients, cooking times and servings. Questions were asked, Spanish transcribed and lots of shit-talking about “other people’s” Menudo omitted to produce the following recipe. Think of it as a general template from which to build and iterate. Menudo isn’t too complicated, it just […]
