Friday Friend Recipe #85 --Easy Pork Tacos

Making my way thru my Friday Friend Cookbook, one recipe at a time.

What is the Friday Friend cookbook: I have about 50 of my closest friends and family on an e-mail forum which I called the Friday Friends (from all over the county). At first, most of them didn't know each other, (they knew me) but over the past 15 years, we've answered and shared silly--and serious---questions, exchanged Secret Santa Christmas gifts, had a dieting contest in which we paid a $1 a week and that money went to a scholarship fund for a Friday Friends son's memorial scholarship, and we went on a great vacation for my 52 birthday.

 

AND, we contributed recipes for a cookbook.

 

I was looking at the cookbook the other night and I said, "I should make every recipe in here for my blog."
The Handyman--who knows me better than I know myself (this happened to be a question on the Friday Friend forum once---does your spouse/partner know you better than you know yourself?)--said,  "you'll never, EVER do that."
WELL---maybe I'll show him!  Maybe I will.

 

Which brings me to this... recipe #85

 

April's

Easy Pork Tacos

 

 

 

This is SO GOOD.  And so Easy.  And...well, so good!

I love pork and I love putting things in tortillas.

After cooking all day the pork really does just fall apart so the shredding is easy, and you don't need any salsa because the peppers give it just the right amount of spice.

April's Easy Pork Tacos

April Cain

Winnemucca, NV

 

1 pork shoulder roast

2 jars pepperocinis (I only used one)

warm corn or flour tortillas

 

Put roast and peppers (with juice) in crock pot.

Cook all day on low.

Shred pork and put back in crockpot with the peppers.

Put into warm tortillas and Eat!

 

 

I have tagged April 15 times in my blog!  But I do believe that this is only her 2nd time in the cookbook countdown.

April and Doug are retired now.

Shelly and I HATE IT.    Seriously, we do.  We can't keep track of her anymore.

She always used to be right where she was supposed to... now, she goes gallivanting off with Doug at a moment's notice.  A month at the Oregon Coast. Okay.

But when she says they are going to CA for a few days and doesn't come back for two weeks?!!

This has got to stop!

What if we want to do lunch at a moment's notice?

Noooo-- she's off on a motorcycle trip!

There is also something 'not fair' about this!

I'm still at my desk.  Shelly's still at her desk.

Not fair!!

 

Okay, now that I've whined, I will tell you another fun fact about April.

She is a HOOKER!!

And you know we live in Nevada.   It's legal!

She is a natural at it too.

She invited me to be a hooker too, and I go because my daughter-in-law likes to hook and she's a bit shy, so I am like the 'mother' hooker, but it started with April.

 

Don't be shocked----but here is a photo of her--hooking --while she was camping.

(and there's another thing she and Doug are off doing without us!!)

 

 

HOOKER!!

(fine!  It's a knitting and crocheting group--sigh)

 

Now even tho I go to Hookers with April, I  don't know how to knit or crochet.

I bought some needles and yarn tho...to make a dish cloth.

But April posted this photo on facebook!

and she said:

For a few years now, I have been very lucky to be with a group a wonderful ladies called the "Happy Hookers" Don't jump to conclusion folks...these ladies crochet & knit! I crochet cute little projects like butterflies & anything created from granny squares. But these ladies are KNITTERS- I don't knit! Because I think the world of my fellow hookers, on my camping trip by the fire and my HOW TO Book, I am knitting a DISHCLOTH. I am so proud of my not so square & a bit bumpy project!

 

And I wrote:

 

Debbie Stone SERIOUSLY???? This was our together project!

 

And Shelly said: (the three of us do lunch every week! Or--we did --until---the RETIREMENT!!)

Shelly Cass Noble You had a together project? You're kind of scaring me.

 

April never really answered me as to why she was hooking without me.  She just laughed.   I wonder why? 

I'll probably never learn to hook now.

I depend on Jessica (my DIL) to do my knitting for me.  Slippers please.

Shelly you can come hook with us anytime.

 

 

April.

Hooker.

Motorcycle rider.

Waterfall see-er.

Adventurer.

Retired.

 

Taco Tuesdays

Every Thursday night my husband and I eat at a local restaurant called "Las Margaritas". We eat at it on Thursday because Thursdays are $1 taco night.
Of course.... that is a ground beef, hard shell taco for $1.
I usually have carnita tacos, and he has carne asada tacos, which are $2.50 or more tacos. Add rice and beans and a margarita or two.... and well, $1 taco night adds up to $25 or more. It just sounds so good... "we're going to $1 taco night!" "Yep, tonight is $1 taco night." "Hey, you wanna go to $1 taco night?"

Last Thursday, I met a friend for lunch and we went to "Chihuahua's", another Mexican restaurant in town. At the same time my husband went to Taco Bell for lunch. Guess what? We STILL went to $1 taco night at Las Margaritas that night.

Are we stuck in a rut? Or, are the tacos that good? OR, do we love Mexican food-- especially tacos-- that much?

I think we really love the flavor of Mexican food.... true Mexican food is best.

Even after a week of many tacos, I'll still make them at home. Tacos are so versitille. How easy and tasty is it to eat something rolled up or folded up in a tortilla? You can put almost anything in a tortilla. A warm flour tortilla and some peanut butter? Yum
A warm corn tortilla with some Mexican sour cream.... YUM!
My daughter in law, Mara (not the one who just had twins) makes a great "Chihuahuan" taco. They have mashed potatoes in them. I'll make them for next month's "Taco Tuesdays".
But this month....
....I just made up some quick shrimp tacos.

I took some sour cream...... when I am feeling like making something with a special touch, I'll buy the Mexican Sour Cream in the Mexican section of your market. It's a bit creamier than what you can buy in the dairy section. It's really good.

I took the sour cream and added some seasonings to make a sauce. I used the chipolte seasoning, and a tad bit of cumin, added the seasonings to the shrimp, grilled the shrimp, fried up some corn tortillas, stuck them in the middle of the tortilla, added some avocado, lettuce and tomato. (I used a Caesar salad from a bag ) and some fresh lime squeezed over it all.

That's it.

Tacos are usually my fast "go to" food, when I need something easy. I served the shrimp tacos with some fresh pineapple and mango. I thought it was a real "fresh"tasting meal.

If you have a great Taco you want to share, join us on the 3rd Tuesday of the month for "Taco Tuesdays" at Foods and Flavors of San Antonio.
Gloria has written a great cookbook too! I just got it in the mail and read the whole thing on my trip to Reno this weekend .... no worries...I wasn't driving, my husband was.

It has tons of great sounding recipes which I can't wait to try.

Shrimp Tacos
(there is no recipe... just season, add, chop, put on what you like. I left out Emril's seasoning. )

Friday Night Food at our House

Friday Night Food at our house is usually dinner with our friends, The Miltons. But this Friday night the Miltons were not home. So we had to fend for ourselves.

Earlier when I got home from work, there was a box waiting for me. A Birthday gift from Theda (my oldest friend... in years of friendship, not in age. LOL ), who is ANOTHER original Friday Friend. NO ONE gives a gift like Theda. She sent me a few of her favorite things...she said if it was good enough for Oprah, it was good enough for her.
So... there were a few of her favorite kitchen gadgets. But they were wrapped, or rolled up in a recipe of hers. A recipe that she liked. It was just way to clever and cute. she just copied or printed out a few of her favorite recipes, or ones she wanted me to try and rolled the gadgets up in them.
She just has a knack with gifts and I love her for them.
Anyway, one of her recipes was a flank steak marinade which I was going to try, but I needed to go to the store to get some flank steak.
Rich went with me. Outside the market they were "fire roasted" some chilies. They smelled good.
So, Rich decided that he was going to make tacos.
Okay, fine, I didn't have to cook.
He bought chicken and onions and tortillas and the fresh-fire roasted chilies.
We came home, he bbq'd the chicken and made margaritas and he was just basically busy going in and out from the kitchen to the grill, when all of the sudden he said, "oh sure, you don't take pictures of MY food."

So.......

I don't really have a recipe, EXCEPT these were by far the best chicken tacos I have ever had!!!
It was the fresh-fire-roasted pablano chilies, I'm sure.
Everything was smoky flavored because he did it all on the grill. Smoky-fresh-chipolte.
OH MY GOSH!!!!I'm gonna quit cooking and leave it up to him!
They were so good!!

mmmmm.....mmmmmm.....mmmmmm

here is his stuff (and remember, just random pictures because he said "so you never take pictures of MY food) so very, casual.

He grilled it all....
onions
chicken
re-heated the fresh-fire-roasted-chilies
tortillas

Then set out the fixings on the kitchen counter

Wah- LA!!!grilled chicken chipolte tacos!!!!

But this post has kind of screwed up Barb's bbq chicken pizza post, that I was going to do (see left )
oh well....that's next.

It's late....hahahaah OKAY, IT'S NOT LATE, I just looked and it's 10:10 on a Friday Night, but it's dark...Rich is watching a movie, with no lights on except me and the computer (I say light when I said me, because there MUST BE a light bulb atop my head....the brilliance, you know. LOL) Anyway, dark, the crickets are chirping outside, and dinner was over a few hours ago... but I WANT ANOTHER ONE!!!

It was the fire-roasted chilies, I tell ya.