Pretty funny the way she wolfs down the local specialties at every opportunity, in between tripping over dead bodies and solving some mysteries. At one point Tess wanted to stand up in a restaurant and shout "Where has this stuff been all my life?"
If you can get through the book without getting down and cooking Mexican, or at least going out for it, you have more self-control than I do. Actually I didn't get past page 2, where a character is having breakfast at the Alamo; coffee, barbacoa tacos and an elephant ear pastry. Well, okaaaaay, so we had to check out those mystery (to me anyway) tacos.
Where the work barbecue comes from apparently. A quick search led right up to making them, with the yummy slow-cooked and pulled BBQ beef; locating an avocado, and some crema. With of course, a good recipe to start it all off. I wanted to use my pressure cooker, not having a slow-cooker, and to cut down down on total cooking time. In the course of said research, I discovered that Hawaii is a Chipotles deprived state. In fact I'd never heard of the restaurant chain prior to this. Apparently they are famous for their Barbacoa Tacos, and there are Chipotles copy cat recipes out in cyber land. But, perhaps I should first apologize for having two beef recipes in a row on this blog. This one is terrific though, and puts the pressure cooker to good use. That said, here it is:
