{"id":8428,"date":"2020-07-24T16:45:04","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T22:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/?p=8428"},"modified":"2020-07-25T12:38:45","modified_gmt":"2020-07-25T18:38:45","slug":"pacholas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/pacholas.html","title":{"rendered":"Pacholas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The necessity of on-line classes due to the Covid-19 pandemic has led to new and different ways for teachers to relate to their students.\u00a0 Scripps College Professor Sal\u00e9s\u00a0 received<\/span>\u00a0an enthusiastic<\/span>\u00a0response<\/span>\u00a0when he offered to share a family recipe<\/span>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>PREP AND COOKING ITEMS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cutting board<\/li>\n<li>Knife (3in paring and 8-10in chef, but if you only have one, that&#8217;s fine)<\/li>\n<li>Frying pan (2x)<\/li>\n<li>A tortilla press (or just two wooden boards to press things with)<\/li>\n<li>An insulated container to keep things warm (or a plate, not that important)<\/li>\n<li>A fork or something to mix with<\/li>\n<li>Non-stick paper or plastic (this is actually quite important)<\/li>\n<li>Blender<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>INGREDIENTS FOR PACHOLAS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1\/4 lb ground beef (90\/10 or 94\/6 is good, but 85\/15 is fine)<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 lb ground pork (usually 80\/20) OR a non-meat substitute similar to ground meat<\/li>\n<li>2 cloves of garlic<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 onion<\/li>\n<li>1 egg<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 cup milk (substitute with soy milk possible)<\/li>\n<li>salt<\/li>\n<li>pepper<\/li>\n<li>smoked paprika (non-smoked sweet paprika or any paprika really is also fine)<\/li>\n<li>ground cumin (sort of optional; if you don&#8217;t have it, no worries)<\/li>\n<li>any chile, if you like heat (optional)<\/li>\n<li>oil (olive or vegetable oil ideal)<\/li>\n<li>a small bunch of fresh flat leaf parsley (but if you have dried parsley, it might work too; but it&#8217;s essential for the distinctive taste)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>INGREDIENTS FOR THE SAUCE<\/strong> (OPTIONAL&#8211;PACHOLAS ARE SOMETIMES EATEN WITHOUT SAUCE):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>3-4 Roma tomatoes (or any kind of largish tomato with relatively decent meaty composition, heirloom is fine, also German queen, San Marzano, etc.&#8211;don&#8217;t stress about the kind)<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 onion<\/li>\n<li>dried oregano<\/li>\n<li>2 cloves of garlic<\/li>\n<li>1 red bell pepper (non-spicy type)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>DIRECTIONS FOR SAUCE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Cut the onion, garlic, and red pepper&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Fry with paprika, salt, pepper, and cumin until golden.<\/li>\n<li>Put in blender and blend with oregano and tomatoes. This will make the sauce.<\/li>\n<li>Put on mid-high fire until the water is reduced; should be slightly runny in the end, not pasty but also not liquid.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>DIRECTIONS FOR PACHOLAS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Fry very finely chopped onion and garlic until light brown.<\/li>\n<li>Separately, mix crumbs, milk, and egg until it looks like cookie dough.<\/li>\n<li>Add fried onion and garlic.<\/li>\n<li>Add pepper, salt, cumin, paprika and mix everything together until it&#8217;s nicely integrated.<\/li>\n<li>Add the meats or meat substitute.<\/li>\n<li>Mix.<\/li>\n<li>Once integrated nicely, add finely chopped parsley.<\/li>\n<li>Mix very well.<\/li>\n<li>Heat frying pan to high.<\/li>\n<li>Add some oil.<\/li>\n<li>Make small ping-pong-size balls with the meat mix<\/li>\n<li>Press until thin.<\/li>\n<li>Add to the frying pan.<\/li>\n<li>Fry until golden brown on both sides.<\/li>\n<li>Remove from fire and let rest about 5 minutes.<\/li>\n<li>Add the sauce and enjoy.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Serves:\u00a0<\/strong>4<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source :\u00a0 <\/strong>Scripps College Professor Louis Sal\u00e9s (Religious Studies focus on early Christianity), but the recipe comes from his grandmother courtesy of James Hill<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The necessity of on-line classes due to the Covid-19 pandemic has led to new and different ways for teachers to relate to their students.\u00a0 Scripps College Professor Sal\u00e9s\u00a0 received\u00a0an enthusiastic\u00a0response\u00a0when he offered to share a family recipe.\u00a0\u00a0 PREP AND COOKING ITEMS: Cutting board Knife (3in paring and 8-10in chef, but if you only have one, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/pacholas.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pacholas&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entree-beef","category-ethnic-mexican"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8428"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8449,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8428\/revisions\/8449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}