I haven’t posted a recipe in awhile.
Although I have received feedback that people like them.
The reason for the lack of recipes is that
I’ve been a lazy homemaker these days.
Mostly because I’m not really a homemaker. Mostly because I work 40 hours a week and don’t feel like cooking once I get home (I still cook, but nothing exciting). I long for the life of a real homemaker. I’ve always wanted to be a wife and a mother and as archaic as it may sound I love the idea of wearing an apron and baking cookies and all that jazz.
Well, today I still wasn’t feeling great, so I took a day off from my internship, and since it’s my day off from work, I spent a little time cooking. Crock Pot Carnitas Tacos for dinner and Toasted Coconut Chocolate Chunk Cookies with vanilla bean ice cream for dessert. So…I thought I’d share the recipes to make up for lost time :).
Oh…and FYI…I didn’t take any photos, because my phone’s camera is broken and I’m terribly sad about it. I guess you’ll have to live with my internet photo finds. *Sigh*…. OK…. moving on….
Oh…and FYI…I didn’t take any photos, because my phone’s camera is broken and I’m terribly sad about it. I guess you’ll have to live with my internet photo finds. *Sigh*…. OK…. moving on….
Carnitas Tacos
Yield: a butt load of tacos – probably enough for about 8 people to have 2-3 tacos
Ingredients
- MEAT:
- pork butt (or you can buy pre-cut “pork carnitas meat”)
- 1 orange
- 1/2 can chicken broth
- cinnamon
- cumin
- oregano
- garlic
- chipotle powder
- red chili flakes
Preparation
1. Place pork in the crockpot and pour the half can of chicken broth in. Cut the orange in half and squeeze all of the juice into the pot.
2. Add all of the spices to taste. Be careful with the cumin and cinnamon – a little goes a long way. I probably used 1/4 teaspoon.
3. Turn the crock pot on low for 10-12 hours.
4. Shred pork by pulling it apart with two forks, then place pork onto a cookie sheet and put it into the oven at 400 degrees. Cook until it gets slightly crispy (about 15 minutes).
5. Heat up tortillas and chop up cilantro and onion. Fill your taco with all these fixings. Scarf!
Toasted Coconut Chocolate Chunk Cookies
Yield: 25 servings (serving size: 1 cookie)
Ingredients
- 1 cup flaked sweetened coconut
- 4.5 ounces all-purpose flour (about 1 cup) – I used 1/2 cup whole wheat flour and 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 cup packed brown sugar
- 1/4 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 large egg
- 2 ounces dark chocolate (70% cacao), chopped
- Cooking spray
Preparation
1. Preheat oven to 350°.
2. Arrange coconut in a single layer in a small baking pan. Bake at 350° for 7 minutes or until lightly toasted, stirring once. Set aside to cool.
3. Weigh or lightly spoon flour into a dry measuring cup; level with a knife. Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a medium bowl; stir with a whisk until blended. Place sugar and butter in a large bowl; beat with a mixer at medium speed until well blended. Beat in vanilla and egg. Add flour mixture, beating at low speed just until combined. Stir in toasted coconut and chocolate.
4. Drop by level tablespoons 2 inches apart onto baking sheets coated with cooking spray. Bake at 350° for 10 minutes or until bottoms of cookies just begin to brown. Remove from pan, and cool completely on wire racks.
Nutritional Information
- Calories:
- 88
- Fat:
- 3.8g (sat 2.5g,mono 0.6g,poly 0.1g)
- Protein:
- 1g
- Carbohydrate:
- 13g
- Fiber:
- 0.4g
- Cholesterol:
- 12mg
- Iron:
- 0.6mg
- Sodium:
- 38mg
- Calcium:
- 15mg
This cookie recipe is definitely my new favorite and carnitas tacos are quickly becoming a household staple for us. Both recipes are so easy and delicious!
Enjoy!
xo
{Lauren}
Those tacos sound awesome! I’m saving the recipe. Thanks for sharing!
i’m so so happy i stumbled across your blog last night. i feel like i’m reading something from my best friend! thank you for being such a cheery, happy lady!
Yum! Those Carnitas look amazing… may have to make them next week!
Thanks for sharing! I’m in love with crock pot recipes… Getting to walk away for hours and having the house fill up with the food scent is just the best, isn’t it?
Ooooh yummy, those both look amazing!
This looks sooooo delicious!!!! I wish I had time to cook too, I am so swamped with work that spending 2hours in the kitchen sounds like my worst nightmare at night. I used to LOVE cooking in College….
xoxo
Carnitas tacos=my fave! I am totally adding these to my menu for next week! I love cookie recipes from cooking light…they make me feel good about eating cookies…actually I always feel good about eating cookies but I feel like I can have more than one a day if they are from cooking light!
Lauren–I know exactly how you feel. I am frustrated with the fact that I have school and work getting in the way of preparing meals and cleaning my house for my husband and I. I have depended on him so much with the housework and cleaning our itty bitty apartment.
I love using a working-girl’s b.f.: the slow-cooker. Right now anyway. I try to find meals that Chad and I will both like and then put them in right before I go to school. It’s Genius!
The tacos you made look delish–we’re big Mexican eaters in my house so I’m always looking for great dishes.
aww, thanks for being so unashamed to admit you like the idea of being an old fashioned homemaker! i’m right there with ya ;]
-vanessa-
thechinncredibles.blogspot.com
I think you’d really enjoy staying home, so I hope you get to do that someday. I think you’d make a fabulous housewife and stay-at-home mom : )
Your recipes look awesome. I’ll have to give them a try soon.
Hope you get to feeling better friend!
These are my kinds of eats! Yum.
mmmmmm the tacos look very tasty! must add these to my recipe binder 🙂
mmmm. those tacos look SOO good. i didn’t realize how hungry i am right now until i saw that picture. gah. also, please don’t think that i love you less when you get your christmas card and you see an address line scribbled out under your name. i accidentally copied and pasted my brother’s address under your name on the list and didn’t realize i was writing that address for the second time until i was halfway done writing it. man, it is so hard to be me sometimes. but i love you a lot. and i do, for the record, know what city you actually live in. so there.
ooh, these recipes look great! I especially love anything made in a crock pot 🙂 makes week night dinners so easy!
I’m a lazy homemaker too! It’s sad, but it’s true. I try to make dinner as much as I can, but sometimes life is just too busy and you’re hardly ever home for dinner. I need to get a new crock pot, they make dinners way easier.