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Rice, water, lentils and split peas being cooked in the solar cooker. The centre jar contains the rice; the yellow lid is of a marmite jar with the peas in. The blue wires attach to the thermometer.
Jersey Shore Fightin’ Texas Aggie Ring made his first ever batch of “carnitas” today. Yes, he’s eaten aplenty, but he’s never made any at home.
Aggie Ring had me drive him to the store where he selected a nice 10-pound pork shoulder (also know as pork butt, or Boston butt). “Hmmm…” said Aggie Ring. “Pork Butt. Didn’t we use that term at Texas A&M?” At .40 cents/pound, they were almost giving it away. We chose the bone-in cut because you get the good flavor from the marrow in the bone.
When we arrived home, Aggie Ring cut most, but not all of the fat off. Again, that’s where you get the flavor. He seared the “butt” on all sides to help seal in the moisture while it was cooking. Then he put it into his pressure cooker along with some mojo criollo and some extra garlic and other spices typical in Mexican cooking.
Aggie Ring brought the pressure cooker up to pressure and let it go for three hours, letting the steam release naturally once he turned off the gas. When Aggie Ring opened up the cooker, he was amazed. The meat had totally fallen off of the bone! “Well, I’ll be damned.” said Aggie Ring.
When the meat had cooled, Aggie Ring “Pulled the Hell” out of it and spread it across a baking pan. He took the pan and put it on the top shelf of the oven under the broiler to caramelize the top layer of the pork. Aggie Ring rotated the pan once or twice and left it in until the meat started hissing and popping. “It’s done.” declared Aggie Ring.
Aggie Ring took a portion of the caramelized crispy (on one side) pork and poured some salsa verde on it. Then he garnished it with raw white onion and some chopped cilantro.
The movement Aggie Ring tasted his creation, he knew he’d be making this again. “The way the pork is caramelized on one size and crispy while soft and tender on the other makes it seem that it is the love child of bacon and roast pork.” he said. The raw white onion and cilantro complemented the Mexican spices he cooked the pork shoulder with.
“You’re awesome.” I told the Aggie Ring.
“No, Sir.” said Aggie Ring. “You’re… wait for it… awesome!”
That is all
Tonite I built a primitive rig to hold 2 Game Boys with cameras side by side. This image shows my limited success. When I combined the images they had to be both vertically as well as horizontally aligned, despite the rig. Therefore, the resulting anaglyph had to also be cropped & resized in order to fit the standard picture frame. Future rigs may alleviate some of this but it's still a bit of work to create the final image.
This lady is 70 but I don't have the heart (or guts) to give people wrinkles, and I know I should really just to give that character xx
The cooker attached to the Kang bed we slept in. A huge metal pan sits
over a coal fire. The pan is used for cooking and boiling water. The
smoke from the fire runs under the bed, heating stones (which retain the
heat for 8+ hours), then goes up out through a chimney.