{"id":2146,"date":"2012-02-24T15:54:32","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T19:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=2146"},"modified":"2012-02-24T15:54:32","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T19:54:32","slug":"porky-goodness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=2146","title":{"rendered":"Porky Goodness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re planning a Latin America themed dinner for our reading group.  Tonight we&#8217;re having a planning session so I made a couple of items to try.<\/p>\n<p>One of those was carnitas, pork cooked in lard, then served in a warm corn tortilla.  A nice fatty pork shoulder roast boiled in lard.  It&#8217;s hard to imagine food getting any better than that!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2147\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2147\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/100_1839.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/100_1839-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"100_1839\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/100_1839-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/100_1839-1023x768.jpg 1023w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2147\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Melting Lard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>That&#8217;s 3 pounds of lard melting in my big chicken frying skillet.  When I added the pork it was within half of inch of the top of the skillet.  It wasn&#8217;t hard to imagine that a gas cooktop and boiling lard to the top of the pan was a recipe for disaster.  I switched it all to a stockpot.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2148\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2148\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/100_1841.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/100_1841-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"100_1841\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/100_1841-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/100_1841-1023x768.jpg 1023w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2148\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boiling Pork<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Once the pork has simmered in the lard for a couple of hours it&#8217;s fork-tender.  Then you crank the heat and boil it hard to brown it up as shown in the picture above.  The end result is this:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2149\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2149\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/100_1843.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/100_1843-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"100_1843\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/100_1843-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/100_1843-1023x768.jpg 1023w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2149\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cooked Pork<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Crispy &#8216;bark&#8217; on the outside, tender juicy pork on the inside.  You then shred it like pulled pork and wrap in a warm corn tortilla with whatever you like.<\/p>\n<p>Anything this delicious has to be good for you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re planning a Latin America themed dinner for our reading [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cooking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}