If you know anything about me you know I'm not much of a cook....but I can follow a recipe quite well. My all time favorite recipes for dinner are crock-pot recipes. Personally I think as a wife and mother it is the best invention possible. The fact that you can put your meal in this pot, come home from a long day of work and your dinner is cook. All you have to do is make a salad, maybe a side, and cut some fresh fruit and dinner is ready.
I'm always blog searching for the next "new recipe." I think I make my husband, Billy, nervous when I announce, "New recipe tonight." Of course, if you know my husband he is very generous because he is naturally that way, but I know inside he is thinking, "OH CRAP!" Really I think he is just happy that he has dinner and not eating a sorry sandwich.
So last night was Crock-Pot Chalupas. If I have not told you I signed up to do boot camp in the evenings and I have been arriving home a little late. So, when I did make it home Billy met me at the garage door and stated, "That was so good. I ate so much I don't think I left any for you." I thought, "IT'S A KEEPER."
So my recipe:
1lb pinto beans, soaked overnight
3lb pork roast
1/2 cup chop onion
2 minced garlic cloves
1 tbs salt
2 tbs chili powder
1 tbs cumin
1 teaspoon oregano
1-4 oz can green chilies, chopped
7 cups of water
Cover and cook on low in a crock pot for 10 hours or until meat falls apart.
That is what the recipe stated. This is how I cooked it: poor a little of this, that and lots of salt. I did include most the ingredients. I did not use the cumin because my mother has always told me how much she dislikes cumin, and my mother can cook, so I do what she says.
Another thing I come from a huge Mexican family. Everything taste better with tortillas, topped with a little guacamole, fresh onion and sour cream. YUMMM!
By the way my husband did not eat it all. We had enough for my lunch after a long TAKS morning and pulled pork sandwiches for dinner.
If you think this is good wait till you try one of my Rachel Ray recipe, Yellow Chicken and Rice.
By the way I did check to make sure it was okay to eat pork with the swine flu problem. It is as long as it's cooked thoroughly and this simmers for 10 hours.
