Its appearance dates back to ancient times, when the need arose to prepare softer foods to facilitate their digestion and chewing. It originated in pre-Hispanic times, in the state of Tlaxcala, Mexico. Tlaxcala means "Place where tortillas abound" or "Land of corn". With the abundance of corn in the region, the Mesoamerican people were able to adapt it, and since that time many foods in Mexico have been made with it, for example: tlacoyos, quesadillas, empanadas, tacos, enchiladas, chilaquiles, etc.
According to the legends of that time, it is said that the first tortilla was prepared by combining fresh corn with dried grains to satisfy an ancient Mayan king. In the year 10,000 B.C., three thousand years later, the residents of the Tehuacan Valley began to use containers made of stone to boil the corn that grew around them, it was little by little that they included tortilla as a main ingredient. It is also said that in the XVI century, the Spaniards arrived in Mexico, and that in fact they were the ones who brought the tradition of the soup, as well as the chickens and spices to make the broths.
Tortilla soup, also known as Aztec soup in some regions, is made from fried corn tortilla strips that are dipped in a broth of ground tomatoes with garlic and onion, seasoned with parsley and ground chiles de árbol, served with pieces of chile pasilla, chicharrón, avocado, cheese and cream.
INGREDIENTS
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8 corn tortillas, cut into strips
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1 block (340.g) extra-firm tofu, cubed
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2 saladette (roma) tomatoes, medium
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¼ white onion, chopped
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1-2 chipotle peppers, marinated
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1 Morita chile, dried, seeded
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8 ½ cups vegetable broth
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1 cup tomato puree
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2 cloves Garlic
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1 tsp Soy sauce
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1 sprig Epazote
Garnish:
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2 avocados cut in squares
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3 Pasilla chiles
STEP BY STEP PREPARATION
Pre-heat your oven to 176°C (350°F).
2 Place the tofu and tortilla strips on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper. Bake for approximately 20 minutes, or until the tortillas are golden brown and crispy. Remove from oven and set aside for later use.
3 Meanwhile, boil water in a small saucepan and add the tomatoes. Boil gently for 3-4 minutes or until the tomatoes are tender and the skin begins to peel away from the tomatoes. Remove from the pot and set aside for later.
4 Add the cooked tomatoes, onion, garlic, morita chile, chipotle chile, tomato puree, soy sauce and 2 ½ cups of vegetable broth (hot) to a blender and process until smooth.
5 Heat a large saucepan over medium heat and add the tomato mixture, bring to a gentle boil for 2 minutes. Pour the remaining vegetable stock into the pot, add the epazote and baked tofu and simmer gently for 15 min. Season with salt and pepper.
6 Garnishes
7 In a comal over medium heat, toast the pasilla chile until golden brown, but be careful because it burns quickly. Cut into thin strips.
8 Remove the epazote from the pot and serve the soup in bowls.
9 Let everyone serve their own garnish. (tortillas, avocado, lime and pasilla chile).
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Checking out a local newspaper today and there's an interview with a "finance influencer" claiming she didn't get a lot of help from her parents. They just helped her get a tiny 350k USD loan at 22 so she could buy an apartment which she didn't even live in, just rented out to steal money from working people
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Landlord is the easiest legal grift out there. The hardest part is getting the cash to buy up a property and getting it into at least passable order. Then you just sit back and siphon thousands off the working poor.
Feels like the scumiest one too. Not saying it's very ethical to passively slurp up worker's surplus value via stock investments, but landlords are on another level of exploiting something people need to live.
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:meow-hug: Genuinely sorry comrade. The loss of a feline friend is the loss of a friend full stop. As I'm sure you're well aware, there are plenty of cats out there whose lives would be immeasurably improved if not outright saved by a human looking to care for and enjoy the antics of another kitty. I obviously have no idea what your circumstances are, but if they're such that it's possible, having another cat is a kind of interspecies mutual aid. Also, I really like to imagine an owl lovin' on a kitten.
S'all good, he passed quite a few years ago and was very old
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I didn't imagine. I just did it. It was a transcendental experience. I will never forget it.
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Unlike you loony leftists I worked hard to get where I am today, I'm successful because I earned it.
Earned it: Full ride to college where I partied for 4 years and took an easy major just to graduate on time. I inherited my dad's business and my day-to-day work is meetings, lunches, golf, talking on the phone, and coming in at 10 am clocking out at 2 pm.
Some of you might be cat people.
And to that, my dog says, 'Right on dude...say, you have any extra cat shit lying around I could maybe munch on?'. He fucking loves that shit.
fuck, I feel a deep need to try psychedelics. I don't know what it is.
The mushrooms have wisdom they want to share with you. They are trying to reach you. You can feel it?
The idea just seemingly worked its way into my head. I've never really been interested in drugs, I've been offered weed and cocaine directly and felt zero interest. I had a bit of an existential crisis about a year ago and the idea of psychedelics just kinda....appeared. As dumb as it sounds I heard the Rogan DMT memes, but I feel drawn to them.
I'm scared though. I feel like they might trigger psychosis. No familial history of schizophrenia or "bipolar" but my mom has had delusions seemingly outta nowwhere before (menopause!?) and I have some kind of concerning ways of thinking sometimes
The actual incidence of that kinda thing is real low. I wouldn't really worry about that honestly. It is possible but rare.
So long as you are in a nice environment with someone you trust to trip sit a moderate dose first time should be perfectly safe and pleasant.
For any of the latter bits, honestly the psychedelic experience is kinda overblown. Unless you doing large ammounts it is simply increased metacognition and a little euphoria. That kinda thing will cook the noodle of an average person true. However you sound like you have some practice at organizing your inner life so I'd wager you'll do fine.
You may think you do not need a trip sitter but my god; you need a trip sitter.
THC is a mild psychoactive, use it appropriately and you will have a nice first time experience.
OR
A VERY small quantity of mushroom, from a trusted source, is very mild. I think the tea form is even milder.
Nah go full psychonaut and grind up a couple grams of mushrooms and drink them with hot water. I developed a cohesive theory of God using star wars and lord of the rings and a couple of years of 1st century Levantine history, then I started hitting on the fridge. 10/10 would trip again.
Three days ago was the fourth anniversary of my first psychedelic trip. It changed my life. Everything is now just "before" and "after" that trip. I had the same feeling you describe, an inexplicable draw to psychedelics. I am so glad I listened. I wish I had to words to describe how meaningful the experience was, and still is.
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It actually is me and I'm being ironic and want out of here :stuff:
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Can confirm that being of the labor aristocracy makes the world nearly borderless. Pretty fucked up that it's only for the few, but understandable that it's desirable to be in it.
Don't even make any sense because those Russian oligarchs make jobs too. One example is them owning the press, there's thousands of jobs right there.
I was reading a recent article about how we might be living in a simulation and some of the reasons were how many wacky things have been happening (Trump, coronavirus, Russia invading Ukraine) and I had a realization like, wow. It's incredible how much science and technology have been deified to the point where it'll apparently save us from the climate doom that we are embroiled in, and how a material analysis of the world is so unfamiliar to the West's imagination that the only possible way to explain the breakdown of the empire and the continuation of history after it was supposed to have already ended is that none of this is real and we're all being simulated and manipulated by alien beings running our universe on their computers.
I suppose it gave me an insight into how my understanding and analysis of the world has changed from the standard one, and how everything that's happening makes almost perfect sense and we can explain the past well and, in relatively vague terms, predict the future; and yet everybody who's following the traditional approach and understanding that history ended after the USSR collapsed, capitalism won, socialism lost, and all that's left is to make slight corrections of our society and spend the rest of our time consuming - all those people are either watching Marvel movies and saying "wowie, Iron Man is like Zelensky and Obama is like Black Panther and Trump is like Thanos and..." as they mindlessly consume culture like a child eating candy in Willy Wonka's room with the chocolate river, or they're like "oh god, what the fuck is going on?!? why are things so terrible! I know, I'm going to invent my own special political ideology that is a weird combination of my personal hangups with the world and the usual neoliberal axioms that I must not disobey and use my own deeply flawed individualistic lens to explain everything; off to Twitter/Twitch I go!", or they're just grindset people trying to milk the last remaining drops of money out a system that is actively in the process of falling apart because there's no alternative for them that results in them having pleasure and a position of power above others.
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Medieval Christians used the exact same "logic" that simulation theory losers use to argue for the existence of God, and I think people should know that.
