Here's a CNN link that talks about how they were animating for shows like invincible. Iirc the people behind the show didn't know but it's a symptom of the problem with outsourcing everything.
Yea that's why I prefer vegetarian over vegan. A ton of the classic vegetarian dishes that are amazing rely on dairy and other animal products that aren't directly meat. From simple things like quesadillas to sopes vegetarianos and enchiladas.
It's all about spices though, I'm dissaponted in that restaurant. Mole Poblano is quite literally all spices and chilis.
Out of curiosity I googled vegetarian Mexican recipes and I'm a bit disappointed there was non of the classics that I cook on the top pages. It's a lot of nuvegetarian recipes, which there's nothing wrong with but they all seemed sorta samey.
If you live in a med to large city you should be able to find the Doña Maria Mole Poblano mix in your local grocery store, check their hispanic isle. It comes in a small glass container. If you live in a bigger city I recommend going to a Mexican grocery market and seeing what other brands they have, just pick whatever looks good to you can't really go wrong and I wouldn't worry about authenticity with this since there's literally thousands of variations on Mexican Mole so it's all authentic in its own way.
OK after that ramble here's a simple ingredients list.
Main ingredients.
Mole Poblano
Queso fresco
Corn tortillas
Onion
Red rice side dish.
Rice
Tomato paste
Tomato bullion
Onion
Garlic
With this list in mind you can go ahead and just browse through recipes online and check whatever has similar ingredients.
You wanna prep the sauce first cause it takes a while on low heat to properly smooth out.
The way my family always made them is you warm up the tortilla in a pan until it gets soft, you don't want to over cook and have them get stiff. All it needs is a couple seconds on high.
Then you chuck em into a smidge of hot oil in another pan, again for only a handful of seconds. 10 or so on each side should be fine depending on how hot the pan is, the key is to not overcook them and have them go stiff.
The you dunk them in the Mole sauce, put them on a plate, add cheese and onion inside to taste and roll em up. Add the garnishes on top and you're done.
Tbh you could just warm up the tortillas in a pan and skip the oil part completely if you want it healthier. That's just how my family always did it so that how I do them.
For the red rice just check out Mexican red rice recipe with similar ingredients and you can't go wrong.
For a non vegetarian version you could also make them out of chicken breast instead. Personally I think just queso fresco is the best, I ommit the onion since I don't like biting into raw onion but my family prefers it with.
Sorta related, I've talked about humans eating less meat and how vegetarians/vegans have the wrong approach. It's usually the animal cruilty or eat healthier approach with them, I've been saying that to ease people into the vegetarian camp they need to not try to make it a thing.
Baby steps, the way I go about it is I cook my friends delicious food and it just happens to be vegetarian. If you can get them to like a food and want the recipe it's a win, one less meatless meal they'll have occasionally. Rice and repeat and hopefully one day they'll have a handful of meatless meals a week.
I'm Mexican and we have a ton of flavorful vegetarian meals, my personally favorite dish is enchiladas de queso y mole poblano. Im not even vegetarian or vegan, I just decided one day that I should cut some meat out of my diet, after checking what I'm currently eating it turns out I already eat at least 6 meatless meals a week... All cause we just have a lot of really good vegetarian meals in my culture.
Ah fair enough. Yea I love my mom and she wants to be buried in her home country but life is for the living. I'm planning on cremating her and splitting the ashes among my siblings. Not gonna waste money on a service or anything, I know she wouldn't want that at least. If my extended family wants a service they can pay for it themselves I won't be attending.
Reminds me. I played a campaign a couple years ago of high fantasy pathfinder.
I was a small halfling rogue and my bud was a giant jormund?something. Our strat was for him to throw me behind enemies, I would roll to not take damage or fall while landing and then he would go up to them and attack. This made it easy for me to get tons of bonus damage from flanking. Love these sort of strategies.
In the same campaign I would stay permanently stealthed while next to the same bud because of our size difference and a feat I had that allowed me to stealth in the shadows of things bigger than me even while in plain sight.
Same campaign I, unbeknownst to my party and I, managed to steal a weapon that was/belonged to the big baddie of the campaign.
By sheer luck it's touch insanity/corruption/damage toward anyone with an alignment effect didn't kill me instantly because I used an ability that let me sleight of hand it from afar and I gave it to my true neutral capybara mount for safe keeping. We didn't actually know any of this until we had to call it quits shortly after because life got in the way of a couple of us. That revelation was insane. We were all relatively low levels and the only reason we even encountered this situation was because the weapon was controlling/mentally corrupting someone who was meant to be a low level plot crumbs person that we stumbled upon. It was a high fantasy campaign and I specialized my whole build around sleight of hand, that with a high roll made it so I was able to joink this incredibly powerful and high level weapon.
