after reading Dear Pork, I am in love with you, i had to make carnitas.
orange peel and garlic
every time i make carnitas, it seems i blend several recipes. in this case, added some sugar and spice. also used beer instead of the mexican coke since i, you know, didn’t have any available. let’s just say the pig didn’t mind!
did i mention the pig? four pounds of pork shoulder… (well, that’s actually five pounds; there’s a bound in the freezer waiting for another day).
also added half an onion. brought the whole thing to a boil, simmered for two hours, then reduced it to a heavenly brown mess!
we have tacos! can’t wait to do it again, but have enough leftovers to last quite awhile. in the meantime, i have a new favorite food blog to read for inspiration! now, i too can say, i made that!
haven’t tried making tortillas yet, but as soon as i find a source for freshly rendered lard, look out!
Nice day today in Palo Alto. 72º on Groundhogs Day! I went for a walk and came across this image. Nice!
stanley clarke, the great american bass player said (perhaps quoting someone else who really said it): “life is just a game. there’s many ways to play. all you do is choose.”
as it turns out, life is a series of adjustments…
life…
Continue reading ‘life is a series of adjustments’
Barack Obama has been selected as Time Magazine’s Person of the Year 2008. OK, so the suspense wasn’t killing us. I really liked their series of Obama on Flickr photos. Here’s my favorite:
I spent part of my Sunday in Gilroy, CA, avoiding Garlic Festival traffic and looking for landscaping ideas. We’re nearing completion of our renovation project and want to add a “water feature” to our back yard. Didn’t have much success on that score as everything we saw at Grass Farm Garden Accents was too big, too opulent or just not our style. But I was amazed at the variety of pots.
Pots for flowers. Pots for trees. Blue pots. Green pots. Red pots. All kinds of pots.
Too much green??
Great texture!
Alas, way too many to choose from on a first visit. The good news is, next time I’m in Gilroy, there will be less traffic and I’ll get to the try the garlic fries…
More photos available at Zooomr.
