Saturday night I hosted our dinner club and made Ina Garten’s Slow-Roasted Spiced Pork. Everyone that was at our house that night thought this pork would be fabulous served in tacos. Since I had so much meat left over, that’s exactly what I decided to do tonight.

My good friend, Karin, who’s in our dinner club, sent an email after the dinner club saying she thought this meat would be “another round of joy on a plate” if served as tacos with a “dash” of plain yogurt, a little green salsa, onion, and lettuce. Karin is a wonderful cook, so I knew her suggestion would be spot on. Don’t you just love how she said the pulled pork (not pulled at the dinner party, but pulled for the tacos) would be another round of joy on a plate? I love how she said that. It’s nice to think of food that way … joy on a plate. Especially if you really love something. I think I’ll need to start referring to the foods I love best as “joy on a plate”. And there is no better joy, to me, than sharing a meal with my dear friends and family.

I, too, thought that green salsa would be best with the pork. I particularly love the green tomatillo salsa you can purchase in the refrigerated section at Trader Joe’s. It’s sold near the hummus and dips. Greek yogurt by Fage is what I purchased as the yogurt to go on the tacos. I used a quarter of a white onion that I chopped and shredded cabbage instead of the lettuce … I love the crunch of the cabbage. Sliced avocado, shredded pepper jack cheese, and chopped cilantro also made an appearance on our tacos this evening.

Ina Garten has come up with such an amazing recipe for this meat. It is fabulous. Definitely check out her recipe for Slow-Roasted Spiced Pork if you haven’t already seen it.

I reheated the pork in a tablespoon of olive oil, which took next to no time at all.

For taco shells, I used street taco flour tortillas … they were the perfect size. A dollop, or “dash” as Karin called it, of yogurt was placed right on the flour tortilla and the meat directly on top of that. From there, I built my taco with the cabbage, avocado slices, shredded cheese, cilantro, onion and green salsa.

Dennis is looking forward to having tacos tomorrow for lunch, he’s already packed it up in his lunch bag.

Ingredients

• Slow-Roasted Spiced Pork (Ina Garten’s recipe)

• street taco size flour tortillas

• shredded pepper jack cheese

• sliced avocado

• chopped cilantro

• chopped white onion

• Greek plain yogurt

• shredded green cabbage

Directions

Shred pork once you’ve cooked it. (If you are using leftover pork, reheat in a tablespoon of olive oil on the stove top).

Top your tortillas with yogurt, meat, cabbage, avocado, cheese, cilantro, onion and salsa.

Enjoy!

Until next time, Kris