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My New Favorite Sandwich: Cuban Sliders
This was this afternoon’s football fare. Yes. I know they’re ugly and messy. Layer slider bottoms all over your pan (if you feel squarish, you may use a square pan. I don’t want to mislead you. These were fabulous in large part to the homemade garlic-pepper-dill pickles you see below. But if you didn’t have the foresight to can your own pickles in preparation for this recipe, I don’t think anyone will complain if you use another type of pickle. But come next August, let’s talk about canning your own. Plop the tops over all. Pour the buttery concoction over the top. Cover with foil and bake 20 minutes @…
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Crock Pot (or Not) Pork Tomatillo Stew
Dave loved this. I know that because he ate two helpings, mentioned it three times during the night, and called it "restaurant quality." That's enough for me. :)
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Roasted Pork and Root Vegetables with a Citrus-Mustard Sauce
So I discovered the Food Network app for my iPad, and now I’m not sure how I’m supposed to get anything done in my life from this point on. All I want to do is browse recipes on that thing! The first one I tried was a recipe from Alex Guarnaschelli, who is one of the Judges on “Chopped.” She’s one of my favorites. The following is my rendition of her Roast Pork Loin. I changed the mustard to all-Dijon, added lime and orange, swapped sage and fresh rosemary for the thyme, added different vegetables, skipped the croutons, and swapped cooking wine for sherry vinegar. Other than that, it’s exactly…
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Sunday Dinner: Ham and Copycat Cracker Barrel Hashbrown Casserole
Updated 3/5/20 Oh, how I love Sundays! On the mornings when I’m on the worship team, I arrive early and get to hang out with some of my very favorite people on earth while we go through the morning’s worship set. Then people start showing up, and the hugging begins, along with the questions you ask people you haven’t seen in three long days, or seven. “How was your week?” and “How did that job interview go?” and “How is your friend we’ve been praying for?” Then we worship together, in an intimate, candle-lit downstairs room barely big enough for our growing church family, and when Dave takes the podium…
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Crock Pot Salsa Pork
I was SO sure I had already posted this recipe, because it is just about the easiest thing you could ever pull together, and I make it a bunch, and why would I not have already shared that here? But when a friend asked me about it the other day, and I directed them to T&F, we both discovered that I had NOT already shared it. So here it is. Try this some day when you’re too busy or feeling too lazy to cut, chop, dice, puree, mash, blend, saute, braise, boil, whip or fold … or anything I left out. This is all “plop and pour.” And then, devour.…
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Kalua Pork
I’ve been trying like crazy to think of a way to complicate this recipe for you, just so I feel like I’ve legitimately offered you a “recipe.” Somehow, giving you a list of just three ingredients — four, if you count the rice — doesn’t seem to qualify. But I can’t do it. Adding even one thing would mess this up beyond repair. If you really want to make it harder on yourself, though, you could always run out back, dig a giant hole, build a fire in it, wrap a full pig in banana leaves (a great way to use up all the banana leaves you’ve been stockpiling), cover…
