Simple Dinners

On Friday we invited some neighbours around last minute for dinner. I was going to try a pulled pork recipe anyway for just 2 of us so I thought I may as well invite some friends over. This recipe is great for feeding crowds and requires minimal effort! A friend and I have been talking for a few weeks about different recipes for slow cooked pork, she's from Texas and makes a lot of Mexican recipes which require this like Pork Carnitas. Yum. Anyway, so I finally decided on this super simple recipe from chow.com. Basically, you chop up 2 onions and 4 cloves of garlic and lay this on the bottom of your slow cooker. Add a cup of chicken stock. Pat a shoulder of pork dry with a paper towel and rub in a spice mixture of salt, cumin, cinnamon, chilli powder (I also added smoked paprika which isn't in the recipe). So it looks like this pre cooking:

 
Turn on your slow cooker for 8 hours and you have this. Beautiful tender melt in your mouth pork. I added a little bit of the cooking liquid back in and then served with buns, coleslaw and bbq sauce.

 
For dessert, I didn't have time to prepare anything complicated as I had only a few hours notice. So I went for Jamie Oliver's Brownies which come out perfect every time. I left out the cherries and walnuts this time but served it with the orange infused creme fraiche which goes really well with them. The brownies are nice and crunchy along the top and dense, dark and fudgey in the middle.

MP