March 2017 archive

Carnitas Breakfast Tortas

Carnitas Breakfast TortasFor the past two years I’ve been working with Smithfield to create recipes using their various pork products. In case you’ve missed them you can click here to check out all the different dishes I’ve come up with thus far. Well, I’m happy to report that they’ve invited me back for a third year!

For the first one they shipped me their Boneless Pork Shoulder Seasoned Carnitas, which I decided to use to make some breakfast tortas.

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Bacon Wrapped Sriracha Ketchup Meatloaf

 

Bacon Wrapped Sriracha Ketchup MeatloafI’ve made Bacon Wrapped Meatloaf plenty of times before, but every time I’ve taken a bite of it I’ve always felt like it was missing a little something. Well, it turns out that “something” is Sriracha Ketchup!

Last month when I posted my recipe for Bacon Cheeseburger Egg Rolls I mentioned that the makers of Red Gold are now producing Sriracha Ketchup, Sriracha Salsa and Sriracha Diced Tomatoes & Red Chilies.

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Oreo Cookie Breaded Deep Fried Chocolate Oreo Eggs

Oreo Cookie Breaded Deep Fried Oreo EggsMy buddy Jeff recently turned me onto the fact that for Easter this year Oreo is selling chocolate eggs that are filled with an Oreo creme filling.

Now, these things are already great on their own, but do you know what makes them even better? Breading them in crushed up Oreo cookies and deep frying them!

At first I was a little bummed that the eggs were so small, but after deep frying them and … CONTINUE READING »