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The latest addition to the taco collection from Rick Bayless' YouTube channel. Good-quality rendered lard isn't easy to find locally, so I had to order a jar of EPIC organic pork lard online. It's not cheap, so I'll be saving the remnants from the crock pot insert to see if I can recover the solidified fat (which will now be pork and beef) for a future recipe.
Based on Rick Bayless' Frontera recipe. I found that no additional water was necessary and would have...well, watered-down the salsa. Bayless' recipe also mentioned an optional addition of a jalepeño; I didn't have one on hand, and I didn't find the salsa suffered from its omission, so I just left it out completely.
Serves 8 people.
Whether on Ritz crackers or a buttered toasted English muffin, the salty-smokey goodness of ham spread has been a favorite of mine since childhood.
I recently found Fire & Smoke "Smoked Cherry" barbeque sauce at the grocery store. So often the fruit flavor purported to be in a sauce is just too hard to detect, but in this case I could really taste the eponymous cherry. So I set out to make my own knock-off since the 20 oz. bottle cost me over $6.
Who doesn't love smores? As an occassional fireside treat, they can't be topped. But as the person who must build and tend the fire used to make them, I don't always feel quite as excited for them. So instead of that gooey, messy, sometimes-burnt campfire creation, I figured why not make an ode to the smore that can be prepared in the comfort of the kitchen.