Some More Favorite Recipes!

Cafe Rio Pork

5-6 pounds pork roast
1 T cumin (
1 cup brown sugar
12 ounces salsa verde
20 ounces Coka Cola

Place the roast in crock pot. Add water to cover halfway up the roast. Cook on LOW for 12 hours. Drain the water and add the remaining ingredients. Cook for 4 hours more on low. Shred the pork and cook for 2 more hours.

I usually add extra salsa, coke and sugar at the end.

Cafe Rio Lime Rice

1 T. butter
1/2 yellow onion, chopped
4 cloves of garlic chopped
1 t. cumin
1 small can diced green chilies
Juice from 1 lime
3 1/3 c. water
1/4 t. salt
4 t. chicken bouillon
1 1/2 c. long grain white rice, uncooked (use the regular kind, not calrose etc)
1/4 bunch cilantro, chopped

Saute butter, onion, garlic. Then add the water, bouillon, cilantro, cumin, green cilies, lime juice and salt. Bring to a boil and add the rice. Reduce the heat, cover and simmer for 30 minutes.



Cafe Rio Tomatillo Dressing

1 ranch buttermilk ranch dressing packet
1 c. buttermilk
1 c. mayonnaise (don't use lowfat!)
2 tomatillos, remove husks and dice (they look like green tomatoes)
1/2 bunch cilantro, chopped
1 clove garlic
1 juice of a lime
1 jalapeno pepper, chopped, take out the seeds

Blend all of these ingredients in a blender.





Lemon Chicken

1/2 c. cornstarch
1/2 t. salt
1/2 t. pepper
4 egg yolks
1/4 c water
5 chicken breasts, cubed

Sauce:
1 1/2 c. water
1/2 c. lemon juice
3 1/2 T. Brown sugar
3 T. cornstarch
3 T. honey
2 cubes chicken bouillon
grated ginger root, or some dried ginger spice

Mix the first 5 ingredients. Dip chicken in batter and fry in hot oil. Drain and set aside.
Sauce: Cook ingredients over medium heat until it boils and thickens. Stir often! Cook rice. Place the rice on your plate. Put some chicken on top and then spoon some sauce over all. Top with chopped green onions if you want.





This is my new favorite dessert!

York Peppermint Brownies

24 small York Peppermint Patties, or 6-8 big ones...they have to be York!
1 1/2 c. butter or margarine
3 c. sugar
1 T. Vanilla
5 eggs
2 c. flour
1 c. cocoa
1 t. baking powder
1 t. salt

1. heat oven to 350, grease pan
2. Stir butter, sugar, vanilla. Add eggs. Stir in dry ingredients

3. Put half of the batter in a 9x13 pan. Put the unwrapped peppermint patties on top. Put remaining batter over all.
Bake for 50 minutes.
These are best to eat COLD.