(Eat your heart out over that bundt cake, too ... I think the girl who made that is just a young teen. Watch out world as her cooking skills increase!)
After a couple real odd recipes pages and directories, I happened onto this blog page with tons of recipes and totally scrumptious pictures. Talk about some eye candy. Scroll down on that page for some Cafe Rio'ish looking burritos. I was introduced to Cafe Rio when John and Kelly took me out for dinner on a recent trip to the valley. Talk about yummy! It was really good and we had a good time.
I settled on this recipe from Closet Cooking for cooking the pork. I didn't take pictures because, quite honestly why bother when there are such awesome pictures already done, just take a look. Don't look at the comments on that post too seriously. Oh my stars, just what do some of those people think lard is anyway? It's hard to believe they're complimenting for finding an alternative to cooking in lard (rendered animal fat) by cooking in the rendered pork fat remaining after the meat is braized. Okay, enough of the picking - the food is good. I didn't use this page like an "actual" recipe, following step by step instructions. I just read it over for a general idea and then cooked away spicing and braizing the pork as I would normally. The second step was the change - where I would normally serve the pork roast by slicing or by pulling (shredding) the pork and making barbecue or green chili, I instead cut the pork into small chunks as indicated on the Closet Cooking page and fried it in a bit of rendered meat juices from the initial cooking. I added a bit of additional seasoning by dicing an onion and several garlic cloves and simmering with the meat. It seriously was sooo good!
For the lime rice, I also used a recipe on Closet Cooking. I liked that it used brown rice and thought it would be an interesting change. No disappointment, it was good. Although, I stirred a can of black beans into the mixture. It really was good.
We didn't have dessert ... at this point I'm wondering if Hallie does her bundt cakes for sale. hmmm?
