What an interesting topic to wake up to!!!!!!! :lol:
We've done tongue around here ever since I can remember, and probably way before I ever came along......of course, my dad's family is mostly Mexican, so that could be why.
To do a tongue, we always pressure it for about 45-50 min, or thereabouts........bigger or more tongues at a time take longer, ya just play it by ear. And don't let the pressure off fast, just let it naturally come down.
When it's cool, ya peel it, which is very easy, if you've pressured it long enough. Then just slice and either eat like that, or (my preferance) pickle it with a solution of about half AC vinegar and water. The longer you leave it in the solution, the better it is!
A good story about chile........my dad (bless his heart) had said ever since I can remember, that he'd never found any chile too hot for him to eat. A few years ago, that changed, however. He got a big gunny sack of roasted green chile somewhere in Silver City, and split it with his mom, who in turn, split it with her younger brother.
A few days later, Uncle Lewis called grandma, and asked if she'd tried any of the chile yet. She told him no, that she was still using the older stuff first. He said that he didn't know if dad was stout enough to eat that chile, dad just lol.........until he tried it himself. He admited that he'd definately found chile that was too hot for him to eat, and if you got enough of it to see, on something, you'd done got too much.
He made a big crock pot of chile beans for some family dinner, and put about a tablespoon of the chile in it (he'd put it through the blender, so it was more like green soup than actual green chile) and there were a lot of the folks that couldn't eat it, even with just that much in it. I have no idea what kind it was, but it sure packed a whallop! :lol:
Speaking of Mexican food, do you have any idea how hard it is to get good, authentic Mexican food, in Arizona? I was shocked, and dumbfounded! It's all gringo stuff........... :roll:
Haymaker, it's lots of fun to hook a gringo up with some "good" chile....... :twisted: