September 10, 2007
MMMMM, MENUDO
How'd you spend your weekend? Did you have a good time? Get to relax? Hang with the fam?
I ate Mexican tripe soup.
It was delicious. Once you got past the part where you realized you were eating honeycomb pork intestine and veal knuckle, of course.
New friends Greg and Michelle Baker, private chefs who operate Cooks & Company, and my News Center colleague Larry Cotton went on a Tampa Underbelly Tour all day Saturday in search of something exotic and new and delicious. (Greg and Michelle liked my pork uterus post. Who knew that porcine lady business could bring friends together?)
We were not disappointed.
From the biscuits and gravy and the plate of fried catfish, scrambled eggs and grits we ate at Martha's Place to the Columbian Brevas con Queso (figs and cheese) and Hen Soup we ate at La Cabana Antioquena, it was a great culinary adventure. The frothy, gooey aloe drink made for us by Cephas in Ybor City? I'd say that the jury is still out. (Okay, we disliked it greatly. I likened it to pteradactyl semen.)
You can see photos of the entire tour (including some great sausage at Big John's Alabama BBQ, by clicking here.
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