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From: Boomer, NC USA

Joined: January 3rd, 2010

About me: I collect cookbooks and love to cook and try new recipes. I tested recipes for Leite's Culinaria for almost eight years. I learned to cook from many good southern cooks including my Mom, Dad, several Aunts and my Grandmothers. My children and husband also like to cook and try new foods and recipes. My son still lives with us but our daughter is married. She often visits to cook with me. We are adventuresome eaters willing to try new things.

Bourbon Roasted Pork Loin from Everyday Dorie: The Way I Cook

This was delicious. I know she says in the book not to use the good bourbon but all I had was Woodford Reserve so that's what I used. I marinated for about 8 hours in fridge. Loved the apples and onions... read more >

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Nopalito: A Mexican Kitchen

By Gonzalo Guzmán, Stacy Adimando
Ten Speed Press - 2017

We liked this one very much. Great snack. I used store bought tortilla chips.

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Husband loved this. I used the stove top method. We liked the addition of apple cider vinegar, onions and jalapenos. Took a little longer to cook but I couldn't find the suggested brand of black beans.

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My pork was around 8 lbs. instead of 5 and had a bone in it. Couldn't find any boneless. I did a pretty good job of getting it cut up anyway. I used the 4 lbs. of lard called for (nice to know there's no trans fat in lard) but ended up adding some cooking time to get them tender. First cook was about 2 hours then I bumped up the heat for another 10 min. before slowing it down and adding the milk and beer which I then cooked for another 20 minutes. I put meat in fridge until supper time then put the meat on a sheet pan and in oven to crisp it up. So tender and delicious. I did make one adjustment I didn't add the cinnamon stick to my cheese cloth bundle. We're not big on cinnamon in savory dishes and I've rendered some dishes uneatable to my family by trying to add cinnamon to savory dishes so I just don't do it.

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Cauliflower, jalapenos, onions, and carrots. Nice pickle mix.

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This went perfectly with the carnitas from page 156

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These had a great flavor but the haberano sure gave them a lot of heat.

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Wasn't sure I'd like the addition of tomatillos in my guac but this was delicious.

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Halved this for my breakast. I forgot to add the cilantro at the end, guess I was to hungry. It was delicious. Black beans on a fried soft corn taco shell. Then topped with two poached eggs, a green salsa from the book, and Jack Cheese.

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Carrots and onions make a nice addition in this version of pickled jalapenos.

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We didn't like these quiet as good as the strawberry popsicles but they were still good and grandson loved them. The rest of us thought they'd have been better without the lime zest.

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Son said best limeade he's ever tasted and all of us who drank some agreed. Will be making again.

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I used brown basmati rice and it took twice as long to cook as the recipe stated and I did have to add more water. It turned out delicious but my family said they prefer the Spanish rice their grandma made better.

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Pretty spicy. Looking forward to using in some of the recipes in this book.

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The Mexican Chorizo I was able to get was super spicy. This had a great flavor though. I had to get Jared cactus though since none of the stores here had fresh ones. I did make sure to get ones with no other add ins and no vinegar.

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I made this to go with Carnitas. Delicious.

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delicious on the tortilla chips very spicy

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I used jared cactus since I couldn't find fresh. My family really enjoyed this. The salsa verde was quiet spicy. It called for 10 tomatillos which I used 9 but one was very big and 4 jalapenos and mine were huge so I just used two.

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These were a hit. So refreshing on a hot day. My grandson loved them as we all did.

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A hit with my family. Hubby said you can make this again. Son wants me to leave out carrots next time or at least add a lot less. Neither him or his dad are fans of cooked carrots.

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