Beef Taco Recipe Biography
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They're both available at Villalobos, where chef Adam Rose combines traditional ingredients and recipes with up-to-date techniques, producing what he calls "modern Mexican, tweaked with a Villalobos spin."
So what's the deal with that sea urchin? The creamy orange gonads add a fresh, briny element to the guacamole ($13), sparked by smoked tomatillos. Too far out of your comfort zone? Villalobos also has traditional guacamole ($10) flavored with jalapeño, cilantro, onion and tomato.
Rose warns that some have trouble coming to terms with the texture of the beef tongue in the lengua tacos ($5).
"It's not for everybody," he points out, but there are those who dote on the tongue, set off to advantage by cilantro, onion, pistachio and the zing of chipotle.
More conservative meat lovers will go for the sweet richness of cola-braised pork belly in the carnitas taco ($5); for those who favor fish, there's the pescado ($5), featuring beer-battered fried fish and cabbage.
Don't worry about getting messy while enjoying anything that has sauce. Dish towels serve as napkins capable of handling a mess, and denim-shirted servers keep watch to see if someone needs another.
Most of the "platos" or main courses -- with the possible exception of the braised rabbit in green mole ($29) -- seem tame by comparison to some of what comes before.
But Yucatan favorite grilled brook trout ($26) with leeks and a bevy of sliced potatoes is a tasty alternative to the more exotic menu items. It's served with a dish of Oaxacan rice and black beans, also available a la carte ($4).
The trout comes with a cute little patterned fabric holder of fresh tortillas. Rose takes a special pride in the tortillas, noting more than 1,000 of them are handmade in-house each week, rather than being brought in, as is standard procedure at many Mexican restaurants.
Rose, formerly executive chef at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, notes that people can order however they choose. But he believes the optimum way to experience the restaurant is with a little of this and a little of that, while sharing the larger platos.
Toward that end, I suggest two people can start with the tuna, melon, jalapeño and sesame crudo ($13), then dig into the esquites ($10), corn off the cob with cotija cheese, which makes a nice side for some of the more substantial dishes, before going on to tacos and splitting an entree.
The restaurant's name means "House of the Wolves," and as for its origin, Rose says, speaking for himself and partner VJ Moscaritola, "We like wolves." Okay, and happily, they aren't on the menu.
There was just one dessert when we visited, but Rose promises there will be more soon. However, the fried dough churros ($9), dusted wtih cinnamon and sugar, complete with stone-ground dark chocolate sauce, serves well for now and certainly offers enough calories for two.
Since the restaurant does not have a liquor license, you'll need to make do with the wine and beer you bring in, rather than a Margarita. A thirst quenching alternative is the line-up of agua frescas ($3), lightly fruit-flavored waters with no sugar. You may think they are thin, but the point is that they do refresh. Try the watermelon/mint. If you want something a little stiffer, at least texturally, there's always the cherry Coke slushy ($3).
A weekend visit to Villalobos can be discouraging for those lacking the waiting gene, since the 68-seat storefront restaurant doesn't take reservations. Expect to see a line forming as early as 6 p.m., but get around it by taking a seat at the bar, where spots often are available, even at the busiest times.
If there are just two of you, the odds are you'll hear each other better side-by-side at the bar than across a table anyway, since the noise level is ear-splitting when the place is crowded. Another bonus of the bar is that it's easy to flag a denim-shirted server from this location.The staffers, who bustle around the open kitchen at warp speed, capably answered all of our questions about the food.
Rose's sister, Ashley Rose, handled the interior design, transforming what had been a bodega into a chicly utilitarian spot with plenty of eye-appeal in a subdued black, grey and brown color scheme.
The chef's take on Mexican food is entertaining at this late-summer addition to Montclair's ever-growing restaurant scene. His version in general is not so far off what you'd expect as to be disconcerting, but just different enough to add a kick to the evening.
On Sunday nights this summer, I would often stare at a blank sheet of paper as I tried to plan a week’s worth of meals.
I would try to think up something new to cook for dinner. Often the menu would look like this: hot dogs, pasta, tacos. And the same the next week. And the next.
I was in the depths of a dinner rut.
Luckily, “Dinner: The Playbook,” a new book by Jenny Rosenstrach, came across my desk. Rosenstrach, author of the popular food blog Dinner: A Love Story, once committed to cooking 30 days’ worth of new recipes to break out of her dinner doldrums. (Hers: cutlets, burgers, pizza.)
Her new book is devoted to breaking out of that cycle.
I couldn’t commit, like Rosenstrach, to a month of planning, shopping and cooking new recipes. But I gave myself a reasonable goal: one to two new recipes a week. Soon enough, I was finally leafing through those recipes I had ripped out of magazines looking for weeknight winners. I was dog-earing pages in cookbooks that I hadn’t looked at in ages.
New dishes were appearing on our dinner table: rigatoni with turkey and mushroom Bolognese, roasted chicken thighs with potatoes and carrots, sauteed zucchini with Za’atar and crispy chickpeas.
To help others shake up their dinner routine, I sought advice from Rosenstrach and two other experts with new cookbooks. Jack Bishop, editorial director of America’s Test Kitchen, shared tips from its latest cookbook, “The Make-Ahead Cook: 8 Smart Strategies for Dinner Tonight.” New York Times writer Mark Bittman offered suggestions based on his new cookbook, “How to Cook Everything Fast: A Better Way to Cook Great Food.”
GET THE FAMILY INVOLVED
Rosenstrach said she and her husband loved to cook. So when they found themselves deep in a dinner rut, they felt they had to do something drastic: commit to a month’s worth of new recipes.
But, she said, start where you can. If you have seven solid regular recipes, expand from there. If you can’t do a month, try a week. (Check out posts Rosenstrach did when she helped a New York-area family with a week’s worth of dinners for Motherlode blog.)
A key is getting the entire family involved, Rosenstrach said. She and her husband presented the challenge to their daughters as a family adventure. They all pored through cookbooks and magazines choosing recipes. Everyone was asked to give feedback - good or bad - on whether a dish worked. Everyone had to commit to trying new foods. Rosenstrach even heard from some families who undertook a similar challenge and rewarded themselves by choosing one night to dine out.
Another key to making a change, Rosenstrach said: Just do it. Dinner has to happen. If you wait for all the stars to align to try a new recipe or week’s worth or a month’s worth, it won’t happen. Just start.
“Once you start making it happen regularly, you get addicted to it,” she said.
Bishop works at the Massachusetts-based America’s Test Kitchen, which produces Cook’s Illustrated and Cook’s Country magazines, television shows on PBS and numerous cookbooks. He has one rule for avoiding dinner ruts: Plan ahead.
“Late decision-making rarely results in good things,” Bishop said. “For most people, the ruts occur because they don’t think about dinner until 5 p.m.”
Spend 10 minutes before bedtime to pull something out of the freezer, assemble a marinade for meat or vegetables or to set out ingredients on the counter. Or sit down and write up a list of meals for the week.
“Thirty minutes on Sunday is time that is really well spent,” Bishop said.
The test kitchen’s new book, “The Make-Ahead Cook,” offers strategies and recipes that put that time to the home cook’s advantage. Marinades and spice rubs allow home cooks to let flavor to penetrate the food. Soups and stews often taste better the next day. Even making a kale salad and letting it sit overnight dressed with olive oil and vinegar tenderizes the greens. “This is where it actually makes the dish better if it is made in advance,” he said.
Bishop said making dishes ahead means tweaking cooking techniques. Instead of fully cooking a stew, for instance, cook it partially and cool it down by adding some chilled broth or water before putting it in the refrigerator or freezer. That way, you will avoid overcooking the dish when you reheat it.
Real-time cooking
Bittman, The New York Times’ food columnist and cookbook author, is a bit of a contrarian: He doesn’t believe in dinner ruts.
“If you are cooking the same thing three times a week and you are OK with that, that’s not a rut,” he said. “I wouldn’t let anyone else define it for me.”
However, Bittman said, a good cookbook can help inspire a home cook to expand horizons. While he admits to being prejudiced, his new book, “How to Make Everything Fast,” with more than 2,000 recipes, shows cooks how to get in the kitchen and start cooking.
Bittman’s book dismisses the idea that the restaurant-style preparation called mise en place, where a cook prepares all of the ingredients ahead of time, has any place in the home kitchen. Instead, the book’s recipes take advantage of downtime during the cooking process to tell cooks when to chop onion, peel shrimp or prepare other ingredients. Bittman said this new recipe style reflects how real cooks operate in the kitchen.
Pot Roast In Foil
This recipe is designed to provide leftover meat and pan juices to make Rigatoni With Beef Ragu. From “The Make-Ahead Cook: 8 Smart Strategies for Dinner Tonight,” by the Editors of America’s Test Kitchen, (2014).
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