James's shoulder
Pork shoulder
Gotta trim the fat and skin off the meat.
cut cut cut
He found it easier to cut off peices of meat along the way.
Save the skin and bone, but not the extra fat and conective tissue.
A sharp knife makes this a lot easier. Hence why you seen him go though a few knives before he find one that is sharp enough.
Cut up meat for ease of cooking.
If you think you need to wash your hands. Wash them. If you aren't sure if you should. Go ahead, it won't hurt. James is very particular about food prep.
grrr strong man.
lookit that beautiful browning meat. He added onion and garlic extra to the recipe. They both cooked down to nothing. Serious, we couldn't find any.
ready for the oven!
mmmmmmmm
And done!
beautiful! That's a cinnamon stick. Not a bone like I thought.
That sauce was AMAZING
He's quite proud of himself isn't he?
Lard Ladies and Gentleman. Lard. It's awesome.
One giant chunk. We figured it was similar to butter, half of it would be about a cup, as it was a pound of lard and half a pound of butter is two sticks and that's a cup.
mmmm guacamole. I lurves this stuff. Is extra for my tacos.
As you can see, I like all recipes dot com. I can claim nothing really for this recipe.
Starting with my bacon, with of course the biggest knife in his kitchen.
Washed and detailed shrimp! I added a good amount of cumin ontop of them, because I Love cumin.
Onions! Add them after le bacon.
laaaaaaaaaaaaard
Jay wanted something sweet for after dinner, but theywere nothing like ours from last week.
mmmmmm bacon ready to cook.
and he's starting his tortillas, they tasted like the best biscuts ever.
rendering down the bacon
I had to drain it twice so that everything wasn't swimming in it. I did save just enough to make everything tastey though.
Pico!
All my ingrediants all poured together and cooking. :D
yum!
Jay's pico. Yumyumyum fresh and crunchy and limey and good.
hooray for cast iron.
How to make boxed taco shells not taste like complete crap. They tasted alot better and less plasticy after this. Just till they are warm, even toasted.
the boy doesn't own a rolling pin, so that's a can of kosher salt. It leaked a bit, but ended up working out well for them.
Pretty pretty tortillas
And we set them up for presentation'
James's (so rich I couldn't eat more than one! and again we see, he's SO much better than me at presentation)
My tacos. Not pretty, but AWESOME.
Mmmm. guacamole and bacon-shrimp-delicious. So NOW whose would you eat?
