Rather than a picture of a huge hunk of meat, I think a better descriptive image of this week's dish is Anshul's face. because he was so darn excited about how good it was. But just in case you want to see the meat, I'll include that too. This was so freakin' good! We had a pork shoulder that we needed to use, it's been in our freezer a while. It ended up being two pieces and we cooked it like that and didn't roll it or tie it. Anshul didn't think it mattered, and I had no idea. The rub smelled so good when we were putting it on and it tasted even better. We couldn't have imagined that it could taste any better by putting it into the salsa, but it did! We kind of
mashed it around in the sauce so that it had the texture of pulled pork and it tasted so amazing in the burrito. We used whole wheat flour tortillas. I made some black beans instead of using refried beans - sauteed them with cumin and garlic and a little jalepeno and then mashed them a bit. I also served it with sour cream, mixed greens, fresh cilantro and tomatoes and skipped the cheese. I doubt you could taste it anyway with the strong flavor of the pork. It looks kind of gross when you refrigerate it, but tastes so good as leftovers. At the end of our meal, Anshul was totally distressed that we haven't slow-cooked anything on the grill up until now. "We've had it for two years and have only used it to grill vegetables!!" he yelled in despair. I guess there will be more pork on our agenda.
Rather than a picture of a huge hunk of meat, I think a better descriptive image of this week's dish is Anshul's face. because he was so darn excited about how good it was. But just in case you want to see the meat, I'll include that too. This was so freakin' good! We had a pork shoulder that we needed to use, it's been in our freezer a while. It ended up being two pieces and we cooked it like that and didn't roll it or tie it. Anshul didn't think it mattered, and I had no idea. The rub smelled so good when we were putting it on and it tasted even better. We couldn't have imagined that it could taste any better by putting it into the salsa, but it did! We kind of 
mashed it around in the sauce so that it had the texture of pulled pork and it tasted so amazing in the burrito. We used whole wheat flour tortillas. I made some black beans instead of using refried beans - sauteed them with cumin and garlic and a little jalepeno and then mashed them a bit. I also served it with sour cream, mixed greens, fresh cilantro and tomatoes and skipped the cheese. I doubt you could taste it anyway with the strong flavor of the pork. It looks kind of gross when you refrigerate it, but tastes so good as leftovers. At the end of our meal, Anshul was totally distressed that we haven't slow-cooked anything on the grill up until now. "We've had it for two years and have only used it to grill vegetables!!" he yelled in despair. I guess there will be more pork on our agenda.
What a nice hunk of meat you have there! (or two) :)
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