SoCal Chickenstock Recipes

[debilorrah]

Salsa:

2 cans of Hunts diced tomatoes with sweet onion
1 jalepeno
1 yellow pepper
1 red onion
1 bunch cilantro
Garlic salt

Thrown everything in the food processor until blended well, add garlic salt to taste. That's it.

Spinach Strawberry salad:

1 bag of baby spinach
1 pint of strawberries, sliced (I use more)
toasted almonds
shredded colby jack cheese

dressing:

1T oil
1T rice vinegar
1/3 c sugar
Juice from one lemon


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[CarriBrown]

I'm keeping those two. They were both so good!!!

Shelby needs to post her pulled pork!

 

[PotterWatch]

This is the green bean dip taken from Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. I think I steamed the beans a bit too long, but I still thought the flavor was good. Next go around I will have to make sure I'm not trying to steam beans and read bedtime stories at the same time.

FRIJOLE-MOLE
½ lb. trimmed green beans
Steam until tender

1 coarsely chopped onion
1 tbs. olive oil
Sautee onions over medium heat until they become slightly transparent.

3 hard boiled eggs
2 cups fresh basil leaves
1 tbs. lemon juice (optional)
Combine beans, cooked onions, eggs, basil and lemon juice in food processor and blend into a coarse puree.

Mayonnaise or yogurt
Salt and pepper
Remove puree to a bowl and combine with enough mayonnaise or yogurt to hold mixture together. Add salt and pepper to taste. This spread is fantastic served on crusty bread, crackers, or rice cakes.

 

[debilorrah]

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YES!!! She Certainly does!!!! that was SOOOO good. And NOT spicy. Sweating men over that just kills me.

 

[BarkerChickens]

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YES!!! She Certainly does!!!! that was SOOOO good. And NOT spicy. Sweating men over that just kills me.

I haven't forgotten!! I will post it tomorrow.

Thanks for the recipes, Debi!! I am making that salad tomorrow!!!

 

[BarkerChickens]

Alrighty....so here's my recipe. I made up this recipe by tweaking (or rather mutilating) a recipe I found a while back. After changing a majority of the ingredients and proportions, the name had to be changed too since it no longer applied to my recipe.

David says he initially thought my cooking was abstract since I can't follow a recipe for the life of me and more often than not, just make up stuff on my own. For a rough estimate on serving size, I doubled this recipe for the chickenstock BBQ. ENJOY!!!

Mango-Chipotle Pulled Pork
4 mangos
4 lbs lean pork (shoulder roast, tenderloin, etc)
2 Tbl ground black pepper
1 tsp salt
1 Tbl chile powder
1/4 cup balsamic vinegar
1/2 of a 12 oz. bottle of beer
1 cup water (adjust as needed depending on size of crock pot)

Sauce:
1 Tbl chile powder
2 tsp honey
1.5 oz. bourbon whiskey
2-12 oz bottles BBQ sauce*
2-5 peppers from canned chipotle peppers in Adobo sauce**

Directions:
1) Peel and coarsely chop the mangos. Place the pits into the slow cooker and set aside the chopped mango. Place pork to the slow cooker and add black pepper, salt, and chile powder. Pour in beer, balsamic vinegar and water.

2) Cover and cook on low for 8 hrs. or until the meat is tender and easily shredded. When done, drain pork and discard the liquid and mango pits. Shred the pork with two forks.

3) For the sauce: puree the chopped mangos and chipotle peppers until smooth. Add the mango-pepper puree, honey, chile powder, and whiskey into a saucepan. Simmer while stirring frequently until the mango has slightly darkened and thickened (~10 mins). Stir in BBQ sauce and remove from heat.

4) Return the pulled pork to the slow cooker and stir in Mango-Chipotle BBQ sauce (as prepared above). Cover and cook for 1-2 hours to allow the pork to absorb the BBQ sauce.


*Most BBQ sauces come in 18 oz., so I usually use that size and add the sauce until i think it is plenty. I usually use Honey-Chipotle BBQ Sauce, but this time (for the BBQ) I used 1/2 Honey-Chipotle BBQ sauce and 1/2 homemade Bourbon Whiskey BBQ Sauce that David makes (from Allrecipes.com). YUM!). The amount used depends on how "saucy" you want the pulled pork.

** Fresh would probably taste better if you found any; however, I have not had much luck finding any, so I use the canned peppers.

 

[debilorrah]

Thanks Shelby!!! That was SOOOOO good!!!!!

 

[BarkerChickens]

Thanks, Debi! I am glad everyone liked it!

 

[NancyDz]

Yum, sounds like some good food at that Chickenstock!

thanks for the recipes.


nancy

 

[BarkerChickens]

I had 2 HEAPING bowls of Debi's strawberry spinach salad tonight! TUM!!!

(and a small pulled-pork sandwich since we have some left still). I think I will make the salad for dinner again tomorrow!! Thanks so much, Debi!!