Menudo is a traditional Mexican tripe soup that is very popular down here in Laredo Texas. In fact, Laredo even hosts a Menudo Bowl, which is a Menudo cook-off that takes place each year a couple of weeks prior to the Super Bowl. We’ve enjoyed tripe numerous times in restaurants, etc… but our previous attempt at cooking the stuff (over a year ago) left a bad taste in our mouths, but we decided it was finally time to give tripe another shot this past weekend. Helping to encourage us was knowing that Menudo also involved another cow part we’ve been wanting to try, beef feet!

This week we were thrilled to find that Foodtease had been nominated for “Most Innovative Video Content” in Saveur’s 1st Annual Food Blog Awards. A nice surprise, especially coming from one of our favourite food magazines! If you want to help out and send a vote our way, click here. Thanks!

Chicago has so many incredible restaurants that’s its impossible to eat at them all over the course of a weekend… but we tried our hardest!

One of our favourite food discoveries since moving down South is Frito Pie. We’re not sure why it has the name, but the recipe basically consists of Frito corn chips, melted cheese, and any type of chili. You just combine them all, usually in the chip bag itself, and then top with pickled jalepenos for a perfectly gluttonous dish. For our homemade version of Frito Pie we went with a chedder beer sauce and a Rick Bayless inspired Texas chili.

Huitlacoche aka Corn Truffle or Corn Smut is a fungus that grows on ears of corn. The spores basically look like kernels that have become big balloon-like mushrooms and while it’s considered a delicacy in Mexico, most American farmers think of huitlacoche as a blight. This makes it really hard to find in America, even in a border city like Laredo. Thankfully we at least managed to get a hold of a canned variety, but in order to try fresh or frozen huitlacoche it seems as though we’ll have to find somewhere that will do mail order (if you’re aware of any vendors let us know!)