My experience with chorizo hasn't been all that great. It always sounds good and then . . . First there was that awful orange stuff (about the color of Donald's hair) apparently made from thymus glands and a variety of other innards that comes in a clear plastic tube. You tend to see it in grocery stores where there is no significant Hispanic population.
I don't know what possessed me to think that it might be a usable meat product. Maybe I just didn't know how to cook it. Then there was the recipe for bulk home-made sausage that was just (barely) OK but kinda made my tacos taste funny.
So yesterday Trace and I were in Kansas City and we stopped at World Market, an import store with a variety of beverages and dry foods on the shelves. We came home with some Yorkshire tea, some Mexican beer and a piece of chorizo.
Now, having done a little research on chorizo, I have some confidence that this might be the real thing even though the package says "Made in USA". Its principal ingredient is pork and it says it is in a collagen casing rather than a plastic tube. It's about an inch in diameter. It looks like a dried sausage (and I know from my research the chorizo can be either dry or fresh) and came in a cry-o-vac package and was unrefrigerated. It also says to refrigerate after opening.
So I've got a question for you fine folks: Now that I've got it, what the hell do I do with it?
------------- Best, Tom
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