Every year my mom hosts a holiday party at the house for all of her managers/employees. This year I was there to help her through every step of the way. Let me tell you what, hosting a party is HARD WORK. We were cooking and cleaning and prepping all. day. long. It is fun though, when everything comes together and is beautifully presented and you get loads of compliments on the food!
This year we had two big hits.
Over Thanksgiving, we were mulling over food ideas for the party, and thought about buying a spiral ham and turkey and some mini buns and having people make little sandwiches for something a little more hearty. Then I had the (brilliant, if I do say so myself) idea of making the
pork carnitas recipe from the Pantry again, but adding a barbeque sauce after it's done to create (quasi) pulled pork for sandwiches.
Seriously, it was amazing. People were raving. People are
still raving.
If I didn't convince you in the previous entry that this is the best pork recipe ever, I darn well better be convincing you now.
I'll admit, I was a little nervous at first, because it's not quite the same consistency. After I added the BBQ sauce, it appeared to get mushy, but then I thought we could throw it in the crock pot set on low and that way it would hopefully brown up a bit, or char a little on the edges. It did just that AND the flavored deepened even more. SO fab.
