The Glade 4.0

Pork was on sale today, so dinner tonight is carnitas. I brought home about 8 pounds of pork shoulder and rubbed it with a mix of chili powder, cumin, coriander, black pepper, and kosher salt. Shoved into crock pot, covered with a can of salsa verde. It'll cook about 8 hours, then I'll fork shred it and serve with cabbage, avocado, cotija, and mango salsa. Obviously two people can't eat all that meat; it freezes well, but dinner is at 7 if you want some. Bring limes.

I'm OMW.

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Holy shitsnacks!

Ya know, I always looked down on crock pots. Until I actually bought one, and found a bunch of recipes to do inside one. My wife and I use ours typically at least once a week. Granted, some stuff is better done on weekends just because of prep times needed, like a pomegranate beef one we found that calls for searing the meat first.

It's also really nice to come home to the smell of something that's been slowly cooking all day.

Only whip is chicken, got to figure out a way we can start it first thing in the AM but not have it come out tasting like particle board.

Excellent with eggs and salsa for breakfast.

That sounds really really good, Taamar. Yum!!!
You don't, by any chance, also happen to have a good recipe for tamales?

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

sadly I do not. There are so common around here that I just buy them by the dozen from a neighborhood mexican place.

I have my dishwasher's wife make them for me.

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Ezekiel 23:19-20 

I made these tamales for Thanksgiving last year and they were vrey good. Recipe wasnt hard either.

Alton Brown Talames

Wait... You're in Colorado if I remember right? That's right next to me. Be right over.

That looks good. Can you cook the meat in the crockpot?

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

I don't see why not. I'd probably get it all together, cook for one hour on high on the crock pot, then 4-6 hours on low to finish it off. I do it with roasts sometimes if I'm feeling lazy, just get a good sear on the meat for the extra flavor.

I've also done these in a crock pot, and they were amazing.

Sooo trying this...

red salsa would be ok right? I dislike salsa verde :\

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Red salsa doesn't work very well, use two small cans of chopped Hatch green chiles, juice and all. You won't get as much acid as you would from the tomatillos in the verde, but at least you wont have to deal with the sugar content (from the tomatoes) in the red salsa.

Carnitas again. I figure the more prepped stuff I have in the freezer the easier live will be when it's too damn hot to cook.

Maybe I did something wrong, but I made this last week exactly as the recipe said (even using the salsa verde)...

it just tasted like pork cooked in a crockpot, nothing really fancy/mexican to me :\

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