so in an effort to help the boyfriend gain some confidence in cooking we hatched a plan to make pulled pork tacos.
now i am am a slow cooked pork master. i have done it many many times for christmas tamales.
each time i would hoist the shoulder out of the crock pot it would splash on the counter into heaps of shredded pork before i even had a chance to set it down. (not bad for a non meat eater!)
So I helped him set up and get the piggy started at about 7pm knowing it would be done at 1am
(and again this was during another food related chaos)
at 1am its not done, the connective tissue is still in tact.
at 2am its not done.
3am its not done. jason decideds to turn it off and go to bed.
7am i go and remove the shoulder. the meat is done but not shredding. so i hack it a part and throw it in to a pan with liquid to simmer it in to submission.
yes picture this. me, crazy haired. uncaffinated wildly pulling apart 4 pounds of greasy meat.
but in the end it was some decent meat
1 huge can of tomatillos
3/4 of an onion
an entire bunch of cilantro
salt.
whirl together in a food processor until finely minced. then put on everything. salads, eggs, tofu. at least this is pretty hard to screw up.
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