My sweetie got a pretty good recipe for pozole and has been making it pretty often. So the other day I was talking about Mexican food with our niece's husband, who is of Mexican extraction (somewhere south of Mexico City) and has a fine appreciation of Mexican home cooking. We were talking about carnitas, pastor, lengua as taco fillings. Then we got to tripa, which led inevitably to menudo and then pozole.
Then he dropped the bomb: When his mama makes pozole she accompanies it with tostadas made with tinga. I had never heard of it, but as he described it, he said I was visibly drooling; shredded chicken marinated in a mixture of spices with sauteed onions and garlic.
Last night they invited us over, and it was as good as he said, even with the spices toned down for the little kids. I ate four tostadas. Now I just need the recipe, and to get my bride to make some pozole.
I will eat a grilled cheese sammie with tomato soup, or some swiss on pumpernickel melted under the broiler with split pea and ham, but I think my top combo is going to be pozole with tinga tostadas.