RECIPE ALERT!!

This is my Gran'Ma Mitcha, I've watched her and various Tias
make this "Beer Meat"
many MANY times through the years,
this recipe is as simple as it gets...

Birria
(Mexican Wedding Meat-from a true “mesican”)
This is a tender, spicy, oh so succulent shredded beef normally served at all special occassions…I like living on the edge so I surprise my girls with this on a Tuesday night…So Simple, So Yummy!

Large Boneless Roast (chuck will do)... [what will chuck do? ;) ]
Medium Onion
3-4 cloves garlic
2 bay leaves
1 t. cumin
1 t. black pepper
2 t. salt
1 T. mexican oregano
1 small can pickled jalapenos w/ carrots, onions
1 12oz. can beer (minus 2 ounces, needed to quench chef’s thirst)
or non-alcoholic beer (BORING) btw,alcohol evaporates in the long run...
Early morning or night before:
peel and slightly crush garlic
peel and quarter onion
mix together cumin, salt and pepper
Take roast and slit/insert garlic randomly into the meat.
Rub the roast w/ the dry stuff, if you don’t like to have oregano splinters ’til you do dishes then sprinkle it on the roast (pansy method)
wedge a few layers of an onion into the meat. (Usually between fatty sections)
Wrap this baby in plastic and chill for awhile or overnight.
This needs to be in a slow-roaster for at least 4 hours, so plan accordingly.
Place roast in slow-cooker
add the rest of the onion,
the entire can of jalapenos (juice and all!),
the rest of the beer and bay leaves.
I like to slow cook this all day, but it's still tender after four hours.
Before you shred this meat, remove from cooker, "clean" meat of fats, save the strained juices, return juices to meat to reheat. The leftover meat can be frozen in Mexican Tupperware (aka; Ziplocs) to be used later in Tacos or Flautas.

Mesican Wedding Style:
Serve w/ fresh pinto beans (frijoles)
Spanish rice (arroz)
Potato Salad (ensalada de papas)and
Fresh homemade tortillas.

tuesday night style: (informal;no upper case letters needed)
birria
refried beans
potato salad
fresh tortillas
Credit to Gran'Ma Mitcha for this one!