When I’m bored I cook.
When I’m stressed I cook.
When I’m wanting to rest my mind, I experiment with recipes. 👩🏻🍳
Well, I’ve been laying around the house for three weeks after surgery hardly able to move. So today, I can finally get up and move more freely able to do a little more, and use my arms. I’ve been so stir crazy I felt I should cook. I mean really cook. I mean like cook all day into the night cook. (Presently, I have a bowl of potato salad in the fridge that could feed an army.) We’re empty-nesters, there’s only two of us. Yep, I made enough food for an army today ha!
We usually shop at ALDI, so I tried to use up items we already had on hand.
One item we have really enjoyed are these packages of pork carnitas from ALDI. You just place them in the microwave, so they’re so easy to use. I usually shred the meat after I heat it.
I mean this was a really yummy meal with great flavor.
Here’s the ingredients:
1 pkg pork carnitas from Aldi.
Romaine lettuce, chili beans, shredded cheese, sour cream, sweet onions, rice, bell peppers, butter, olive oil, taco seasoning, avocado, salsa, Catalina salad dressing…really just anything else you want in your bowl.
I made mine different from my husband’s to try to be more “keto friendly” so I didn’t add the rice, beans nor the salad dressing. I also substituted the sour cream for plain Greek yogurt.
Instructions:
First, I thinly sliced bell peppers and onions and sprinkled them with the taco seasoning, then grilled them in olive oil and unsalted butter. These added the best flavor to our bowls! Do this step!
Then, I heated up my Package of Carnitas as well as the chili beans and I just begin preparing my bowl with all the items listed above.
For our salsa recipe go here:
then there's two...Morgie & Me 