I wanted to recreate in Vancouver the shoulder of pork I made for Cinco de Mayo here in Brooklyn, but the local purveyor could provide only ribs. So be it. I like ribs. Really, the pig was an excuse to accompany dinner with margaritas - and it is robust enough to stand up to the lime and tequila combo. After a very unhappy experience with tequila in my late teens, which involved a phantom herd of wildebeest (hi Vissie? Do you remember Pancho's in Obs??) - I swore off it for a long, long,
long time.
But I'm back. It is a good drink, if it is good tequila. And if you know when to stop. And now one does...
I did not broil the tomatoes and onions first, as one should, but put everything in a dish together and cooked it long in a low oven (250' F,
6 hours). The key is the onion, garlic, tomato and orange slices-plus-juice combination. I added some lime too, and in the absence of anchos (Vancouver has not heard of Mexican ingredients that do not come out of a can) I substituted 1/4 cup of hot sauce and 3 tablespoons of raisins! Worked very well, too. The recipe proper is
here.
Add the blessings of sour cream and cilantro, and the margaritas, of course, and you're set.
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This picture was taken about ten minutes before I tried to take another, and dropped my camera right into my dinner. When Vince and I picked ourselves up off the floor from laughing he fished it out carefully and wiped it down. No harm done.
It's quite funny seeing a camera in a bowl of pork.
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