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- May 8, 2020
Here is the pork pre-shred.It's ribeye and eggs tonight. Salt, pepper, and garlic powder, seared in a pan with butter and a little red wine. Simple stuff, but this is the first time I've cooked in earnest all week thanks to an abundance of Easter leftovers.
Tomorrow, it's slow cooked pork tacos. Thinking about doing it with a whole onion, a few cloves of garlic, and some orange juice with the usual cumin, cayenne, and salt and pepper.

I got up about 45 minutes before work this morning, seared this bad boy in a pan with some olive oil and leftover beef drippings from last night's dinner. Then I put it into the crock pot, seasoned it liberally with salt, pepper, cayenne, and cumin, and squeezed an orange over the whole thing. Then I added my chopped jalapeño, onion and garlic, and let the thing cook for about 7 hours while I was at work. As soon as I got home, I shredded it, and did a taste test.

And decided while the pork was tender enough, it needed more flavor, so I added more cumin and some garlic powder to be safe. My plan is to let it go a little longer, let the shredded pork absorb some of that extra flavor in the juice, and then pan fry the pork until crispy for tacos. Mom gave me a jar of tomatillo salsa she canned this last fall, so with that and some sour cream, cheese, and guacamole, I think I'm probably gonna have some of the best tacos I've ever had.