It's Crocktober! (better late than never....)

Welcome to my first Link up!

Mel over at The Larson Lingo is doing a Crock-Pot Recipe swap!

As soon as I saw this post I was so excited.

I love my Crock Pot!

Anything you can Dump a bunch of ingredients to and get something Delicious is alright by me!

So here you go!

As Tegan would say...

My super secret Chile Verde recipe:

The Ingredients:

Here is the best thing about this recipe.  You can substitute and it turns out EXACTLY the same.

Above is what I had in my cupboards today.

Here is what you need:

-1 pork roast 4-5 lbs (I usually use shoulder or butt- but today I used Pork loin and it tasted the same)

-2 cans of Green Enchilada Sauce I usually use La Victoria, but I only had Fresh and Easy's brand and it tasted THE SAME)  (***also- I did not have 2 cans, so for liquid factor, I used one large can of enchilada sauce, and one can of broth and it still worked great!  Just a tad on the milder side.)

-2 onions sliced. (today Fresh and easy was having a sale on their fajita pre-sliced onions and bell peppers.  I picked up two packages and used that instead of the onion to see how it would taste- and Surprise! Surprise!  Just as delicious!)

-6 cloves of garlic-

-2 bottles of Green Taco Sauce or Green Salsa (today I used 1 bottle of La Victoria Green Taco Sauce, and 1 Jar of Fresh and Easy's Salsa Verde)

-1 can of ortega green diced chiles



1 bunch of cilantro-Chopped
1 bag of shredded mexican cheese
sour cream
your favorite salsa
1 diced tomato
1 bunch of green onions chopped

Flour Tortillas

Okay.....

I know this sounds like a ALOT of ingredients....

but this recipe is SO easy.

Here are the steps:

Placed the sliced onions(or fajita mixture) in the bottom of the pot, add one can of enchilada sauce (or in this case broth) before you add the roast.  Place the roast on top of the vegetables, add sliced garlic (you could even add the garlic whole-it won't matter after it has cooked for hours), sprinkle the green chiles, then pour the second jar of enchilada sauce on top of the roast until you can no longer see the roast

Like this

Then set your pot to the longest setting- 8 hours, or leave on low for 8-10 hours.

When you check it after 8 hours it will look like this

Take the entire pot and pour into a colander to get the excess liquid off.  Then take a fork and shred the pork, while it is in the colander. When almost all the liquid is gone, place the shredded mixture back into the pot. And add the two jars of Taco Sauce and Salsa.

This is what your finished product should look like.  It only needs a few more minutes to warm through once you add the taco sauce.

It can stay like this for quite some time, which makes it a great make ahead party meal!

Place the mixture in a flour tortilla and add your favorite toppings

I like mine with Tomato, Cilantro, Cheese, Sour Cream, Lettuce and Salsa!

You can easily feed 10 people or more with this recipe!

There it is!  My first Link up!

Enjoy!!





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(I have no idea how to link up to this.....How come Kim could figure this out and I can't??)

I had every intention of linking up on Wednesday and blogger didn't do my automatic post....so there ya go....better late than never....and un linked....  I guess my first Link up didn't go as well as planned!