Cafe Rio Recipes

(Pictures on previous post)
Pork Barbacoa
5-6 lb. pork roast

21 oz. Coca Cola (or Dr. Pepper, do NOT use diet soda...Diet soda pretty much turns poisonous when you cook it)
1 cup brown sugar
3/4 cup white sugar
1 clove garlic, minced
7 oz. can chipotle chilies in adobo sauce
6-ish oz. red taco sauce
1 tsp dry mustard
1 tsp cumin
1/4 tsp cayenne pepper

Place roast in crock-pot, cover half-way with water and cook on low for 12 hours. After 12 hours, drain pork (retain liquid if you want sauce for burritos, simply mix with a can of verde enchilada sauce).

Mix remaining ingredients until sugar dissolves. I didn’t use the actual chilies, I dumped the can into a bowl and added enough Coca Cola to get all the sauce off of the chilies, then I tossed them. I also rinsed out the can with Dr. Pepper for more adobo sauce. Use ALL of the sauce you can get from it. I think thats what makes it taste like Cafe Rio's. Mine turned out with a pretty good kick to it, but if you want it really hot just throw 2 or 3 chillies in the blender with everything else. (the adobo sauce tends to stain plastic, so use a glass or metal bowl).

Creamy Tomatillo Dressing
1 pkg. Ranch dressing mix
3 tomatillos (remove papery skin), rough chop
1 cup mayo
1 cup buttermilk
1 cup (or more) cilantro, rough chop
3 cloves garlic
1/8 tsp cayenne pepper
2 tsp green Tabasco sauce
juice from 1 lime
dollop of sour cream

Dump everything in a blender and blend until smooth. Refrigerate in air-tight container (or your entire fridge will smell like garlic and cilantro).

Spring has Sprung!

For Easter we had my Mom and brother Ryan over for the weekend.



We dyed Easter eggs


My half hour masterpiece

All the tie dyed eggs



And for Easter dinner we had homemade Cafe Rio.
let me know if you'd like recipes




Creamy Tomatillo Dressing...yum.



Pork Barbacoa...

Even Kaius got to have some pureed rice & black beans...he LOVED it