You all know how much I love my slow cookers. What you may not know is how much I love Mexican food. Last week, I bought a pork shoulder with the intention of making carnitas, only to find I'd lost the recipe I was planning to use. So I found another one online. Thank goodness for the internet.

This recipe calls for about half the amount of pork I had purchased, so I had to improvise. It still turned out great. I'd forgotten to buy avocados and it was too late to run out for them by the time I remembered, so we ate the meat right out of the cooker with flour tortillas and bottled salsa and hot sauce. Yum. The second night, I took out about half of the left-over shredded meat, fried it up in a huge skillet, served it on corn tortillas with the usual fixings. I think I am going to freeze the rest for a day when I don't feel up to much cooking.

The original recipe is by Melissa d'Arabian of the Food Network. Pork Carnitas


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