Sofrito Food Truck will be serving some Delicious Ropa Vieja, Rice, Black Beans and Plantains at Random, 11 Upper Cibolo Creek Rd, Boerne, TX 78006 this Saturday and Sunday!!! A bit of history about Ropa Vieja brought to you by Wikipedia: Ropa vieja, which is Spanish for "Old Clothes," is a popular dish of the Canary Islands, Cadiz, Greater Miami and the Caribbean, especially Cuba, Panama, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic. It is a shredded flank, brisket or skirt steak in a tomato sauce base. Ropa vieja originated in the Canary Islands (Spain), which were the last place ships from Spain would stop on the way to the Americas. The original version of ropa vieja contained leftovers, but later became a shredded meat dish with chickpeas and potatoes in the Canary Islands. Some versions in the Canary Islands contain beef, chicken or pork, or a combination of any of the three. The dish is a national feature of Cuba and does not have chickpeas or potatoes in Cuba; it is just the shredded meat in sauce. Various shredded-meat-in-sauce versions of the dish are prepared in Venezuela and are called carne mechada. This is a part of the Venezuelan national dish, pabellón criollo, which includes the carne mechada, caraotas negras (black beans), platano maduro frito (fried ripe (sweet) plantains), arroz blanco (white rice), and sometimes arepitas (small arepas). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ropa_vieja
Posted on: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 16:30:42 +0000