Sancocho!!

[M.A.R.]

oh my goodness Its clear now

sancochar.
1. tr. Cocer la comida, dej?ndola medio cruda y sin sazonar.
2. tr. C. Rica. Cocinar con agua y sal y alg?n otro condimento.
3. tr. despect. coloq. Cuba. Cocinar mal. U. t. c. intr.
4. tr. Ven. Cocer completamente un alimento en agua. Real Academia Espa?ola ? Todos los derechos reservados

salcochar.
(De sal y cocho, part. de cocer).
1. tr. Cocer carnes, pescados, legumbres u otros alimentos, solo con
agua y sal.

Real Academia Espa?ola ? Todos los derechos reservados

it looks like the first definition of Sancochar is to cook something in water salt and some condiments.

to Dominicans sancochar is to boil.
in Costa Rica to cook with salt and water and some other condiment.
Cuba it means to "cook bad" e.g. "eso no mas 'ta sancochao" just boiled no flavor.
In Venezuela to just boil food in water.

Salcochar - sal/cocer which means to boil in water and salt.

like LaMariposa said to blanch for "sancochar" to boil in salt & water for "salcochar"

 

[AnnaC]

It's more of a stew than a soup AZB and with the recipe calling for 7 kinds of meat I think it's best you stay away from it :laugh:

 

[trina]

Wow AZB, what an outburst for something so... pointless. And so much vitriol for people that invite you to their homes, oh my!

I suggest that you have your doctor readjust your medication.

It's SO good to have you "back", Pib!

 

[Pib]

I have never been trully 'gone' Trina. It is that my new job as Personal Assistant and Activities Coordinator for her Serene Majesty, and with moving my sites I have very little time left for unimportant things such as eating, taking a poo and having my nails clipped, let alone post in my second favorite message board.

I gotta go before the boss notices I am slacking off.

 

[AnnaC]

I have very little time left for unimportant things such as eating, taking a poo and having my nails clipped, let alone post in my second favorite message board.

I gotta go before the boss notices I am slacking off.

I remember my daughter in law saying after her third baby arrived that if she got a shower in for the day she was doing well. :laugh:

Ever wonder what you did with all your time before her majesty arrived?

Nice to see you once in a while Pib

 

[trina]

I have never been trully 'gone' Trina. It is that my new job as Personal Assistant and Activities Coordinator for her Serene Majesty, and with moving my sites I have very little time left for unimportant things such as eating, taking a poo and having my nails clipped, let alone post in my second favorite message board.

I gotta go before the boss notices I am slacking off.

I knew you were going to be an amazing mom, Pib - motherhood suits you so well - time for another yet?

It's a good thing I have a dayjob, or I'd never find time to post ! I'm waiting anxiously to see more pics of the little princess!

 

[Chris]

Confession time .. I also do not like Sancocho. Started when I was offered the prize ingredient, a chicken foot. I fully appreciated the gesture and the love that it came with, I just could not eat the chicken foot. How does one refuse this gracefully? I was in trouble, that sanchocho made me sweat ... and then, what a relief. 2 Cute kids were watching me in anticipation of the delight on my face upon the eventual consumption of this prize ingredient. With as much grace as I could muster, I handed over the chickenfoot to the kids who made short work of it.

I still don't know whether I stepped over some unwritten Dominican Line of good manners, couth and grace.

 

[AZB]

I knew it would soon boil down to a lame women beauty salon type gossip thread.

 

[AZB]

Confession time .. I also do not like Sancocho. Started when I was offered the prize ingredient, a chicken foot. I fully appreciated the gesture and the love that it came with, I just could not eat the chicken foot. How does one refuse this gracefully? I was in trouble, that sanchocho made me sweat ... and then, what a relief. 2 Cute kids were watching me in anticipation of the delight on my face upon the eventual consumption of this prize ingredient. With as much grace as I could muster, I handed over the chickenfoot to the kids who made short work of it.

I still don't know whether I stepped over some unwritten Dominican Line of good manners, couth and grace.

Chris, don't feel guilty. I too saw pig ears, feet and chicken claws in the dish. Yikexxxx. I was in trouble. Most sancochos don't have the weird things but I am truely turned off from this dish.
AZB

 

[Pib]

I knew it would soon boil down to a lame women beauty salon type gossip thread.

As opposed to a lithium-deprivation-induced rant?

time for another yet?

Are you nuts?!

Kidding. But it's not gonna happen. Ever. I am done.



And back to Sancocho: yes, the idea of 'discards' is not really that attractive for most Dominicans either. I have never seen chicken feet in a Sancocho, neither pigs ears. But that is my good luck I guess.

 

[El Tigre]

To Chris and AZB - boy those people are weirdos putting chicken feet and pig ears in a sancocho. WAKALA!!!

At my home sancocho ALWAYS consists of Hen (gallinita), beef (either oxtail or those bones we Dominicans use to make soup), and pork (usually bones as well). When I say bones I'm referring to little bone pieces with meat on them. Not just bare bone hehehehehe.

 

[trina]

Confession time .. I also do not like Sancocho. Started when I was offered the prize ingredient, a chicken foot. I fully appreciated the gesture and the love that it came with, I just could not eat the chicken foot. How does one refuse this gracefully? I was in trouble, that sanchocho made me sweat ... and then, what a relief. 2 Cute kids were watching me in anticipation of the delight on my face upon the eventual consumption of this prize ingredient. With as much grace as I could muster, I handed over the chickenfoot to the kids who made short work of it.

I still don't know whether I stepped over some unwritten Dominican Line of good manners, couth and grace.

ohoh...suddenly, I'm feeling a bit queasy...one of Angel's Dominican lady friends invited us over for my birthday this weekend. She is making sancocho. The only kids that will be around will be mine!!! Let's hope there's no great sale on pigs ears or chicken feet at Safeway!

AZB...what can I say...

Pib, you can't deny the world a beautiful Piblet II !!! You two make such beautiful babies, it's almost unfair to stop!

 

[trina]

ohoh...suddenly, I'm feeling a bit queasy...one of Angel's Dominican lady friends invited us over for my birthday this weekend. She is making sancocho. The only kids that will be around will be mine!!! Let's hope there's no great sale on pigs ears or chicken feet at Safeway!

PS

My mom was German-Canadian, and they can come up with some pretty creative ways of using spare animal parts, as well. She made a soup that consisted of chicken livers, hearts, and gizzards...we refused to eat the chicken feet she tried to inconspicuously slip in. The hearts were always the "prize" ingredient in her soup, which also consisted of potatoes, macaroni, paprika, and onions. While I admit that when I was young, I quite liked the soup, now I don't think I could stomach it.

 

[M.A.R.]

PS

My mom was German-Canadian, and they can come up with some pretty creative ways of using spare animal parts, as well. She made a soup that consisted of chicken livers, hearts, and gizzards...we refused to eat the chicken feet she tried to inconspicuously slip in. The hearts were always the "prize" ingredient in her soup, which also consisted of potatoes, macaroni, paprika, and onions. While I admit that when I was young, I quite liked the soup, now I don't think I could stomach it.

Seeeee AZB, there are worse things than sancocho.

Oh Trina I 'm so sorry, that soup really doesn't sound too appetizing. There are dishes I used to eat when I was a kid that now I wouldn't eat. I don't eat any animal organs, guacala.

 

[trina]

Oh Trina I 'm so sorry, that soup really doesn't sound too appetizing. There are dishes I used to eat when I was a kid that now I wouldn't eat. I don't eat any animal organs, guacala.

It really helped, having a dog under the table! The kids in our family wouldn't DARE not eat what my mother put in front of us!
:cheeky:

 

[shadInToronto]

Food for convicts - murderers, rapists, pedophiles ...

PS

My mom was German-Canadian, and they can come up with some pretty creative ways of using spare animal parts, as well. She made a soup that consisted of chicken livers, hearts, and gizzards...we refused to eat the chicken feet she tried to inconspicuously slip in. The hearts were always the "prize" ingredient in her soup, which also consisted of potatoes, macaroni, paprika, and onions. While I admit that when I was young, I quite liked the soup, now I don't think I could stomach it.

Leave the innards, feet, ears .... et al for the true animals in society - just to keep them alive to serve their punishment!!!! Organs are there to keep the animal alive for us to get meat; feet so the animal can search for food; ears so it can hear approaching predators .... pig's feet are in crap all the animal's life, how can you eat something that was in crap??? ... Just eat the damn meat only!!!! :laugh:

 

[trina]

Leave the innards, feet, ears .... et al for the true animals in society - just to keep them alive to serve their punishment!!!! Organs are there to keep the animal alive for us to get meat; feet so the animal can search for food; ears so it can hear approaching predators .... pig's feet are in crap all the animal's life, how can you eat something that was in crap??? ... Just eat the damn meat only!!!! :laugh:

I couldn't agree more...it's so gross, now that I really think of it. Mom raised chickens for us to eat, in fact, almost everything we ate growing up was home-grown or home-made; mom bought few groceries. A good way to grow up, but then I think about that soup...

 

[M.A.R.]

Yes is gross, the liver and the kidneys filter all the impurities from the blood stream. gross. well all the organs are filtering divices, maybe the heart isn't so bad. Pigs eat anything you give them, at least the cows only eat grass and drink water.

 

[AnnaC]

at least the cows only eat grass and drink water.

and are injected with hormones :laugh:

 

[M.A.R.]

and are injected with hormones :laugh:

Well yes that's true, I don't like hormones. But I was just thinking of a happy cow in the DR, grazing in the meadows :cheeky: and a chicken in the backyard, pork for me only occasionally, even if its in the backyard eating left overs.